[Heads-up] The May 2018 GDPR Deadline May Fuel New Extortion Attempts

Feb 20, 2018 11:21:29 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Trend Micro has released its annual security roundup, and it shows several interesting trends that will likely continue into 2018. There is bad news and worse news, with a little bit of ...

KnowBe4 Attains SOC 2 Type I Compliance For The Hosted Phishing And Training Product Offerings

Feb 11, 2018 1:59:38 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4, Inc, the world's largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, this week announced it has successfully completed a Service Organization Controls (SOC) 2 ...

Which EU 2018 Directive Is More Important Than GDPR?

Jan 3, 2018 4:19:17 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

If you have sales offices in Europe, or full subsidiaries, you need to be aware of the NIS directive. Peter Dekker at Enisa warned about the following: During 2017, the GDPR buzz reached ...

Complex regulations and sophisticated cyber attacks inflate non-compliance costs

Dec 15, 2017 5:21:15 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The cost of non-compliance has significantly increased over the past few years, and the issue could grow more serious. 90 percent of organizations believe that compliance with the GDPR ...

URGENT - If IT and Marketing are not freaking out about GDPR compliance, you are not paying attention

Nov 24, 2017 3:04:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

I found an article about GDPR compliance written by the fine folks of HubSpot, which we use ourselves here at KnowBe4 use for marketing automation. We have customers in Europe, so our ...

We're Still Not Ready for GDPR? What is Wrong With Us?

Nov 19, 2017 10:30:08 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Sara Peters, Senior Editor at Darkreading wrote an excellent article about GDPR. It is both reprimanding and encouraging to get off our collective butts and do something about GDPR very ...

Federal Contractor? Insider Threat Training Deadline June 1- Don't Lose Your Clearance

Jun 7, 2017 4:38:21 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Insider Threat Training Requirement for US Gov't Contractors (Deadline May 31, 2017) SANS just alerted US federal contractors that wish to maintain their clearances must have completed an ...

Cybersecurity Top Risk Consideration In Board Room

Dec 31, 2014 2:23:30 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Wall Street Journal polled its readers and asked them to rate the top compliance issues of 2014. The answers were very interesting!

PCI Publishes Guidance On Security Awareness Training

Nov 1, 2014 11:46:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Payment Card Industry Council thinks Security Awareness Training is so important that they just published a 25-page guidance paper that fully explains the why, how and what of ...

NISTs New Approach to Cybersecurity Standards

May 14, 2014 10:30:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Applying Engineering Values to IT Security. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is developing new cybersecurity standards based on the same principles engineers use to ...

80% Fail To Maintain PCI Compliance Between Assessments

Feb 21, 2014 2:15:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

OUCH. Verizon said in a report this month that nearly 80% of organizations that achieve annual compliance with the PCI Data Security Standard -fail- to maintain that status after passing ...

NIST Releases Voluntary Cybersecurity Compliance Framework

Feb 13, 2014 4:12:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Dont Let Your C-Level Execs Wind Up At Capitol Hill Like This

Feb 7, 2014 4:58:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Major U.S. retailers at Senate hearing: hackers have upper hand

INFOGRAPHIC: The Illusion of Personal Data Security in E-Commerce

Jan 30, 2014 9:25:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Dashlane’s first quarterly Personal Data Security Roundup was released recently. The roundup takes a look at password policies of the top 100 e-commerce sites, and the results are ...

Do You Automate Sending SMS/Text Messages For Marketing?

Jan 30, 2014 8:58:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

My friend Chip Cooper at digicontracts sent me this, and I think it's a good heads up for all of you. There is a common misconception that text/SMS messages are subject to the same ...

Data Security Laws And Penalties: Pay IT Now Or Pay Out Later

Dec 6, 2013 5:18:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

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