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Valuing Secrets: Personal Details
Even if they do not have a data-mining strategy, most businesses have some personal customer data, and it can be valuable to thieves
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Valuing Secrets: Medical Information
Medical records do get stolen. While we cannot say for certain, it seems that there is little criminal interest in buying them.
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Valuing Secrets - Login Information
One of the workhorses of modern internet crime is something boring and simple: a username and password.
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Handling Data: Credit Cards
Do you store and process credit cards from customers?
The credit card companies wish you wouldn’t.
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Valuing Secrets: Proprietary Client Information
This article is part of the Handling Secrets series. In this first part, Valuing Secrets, we describe how to rate the likelihood of theft...
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Valuing Secrets
This article is part of the Handling Secrets series. In this first part, Valuing Secrets, we describe how to rate the likelihood of theft...
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Handling Secrets
Part of our series on Handling Secrets. Do you have secrets? I have asked this question hundreds of times. Most say no. You do. Your most...
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Stopping Fraud: Register with D&B
Part of our series on Security for Medium Businesses. Did you know that your business has a profile and credit history? Just like your...
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Stopping Fraud: For the Low-Tech Business
Part of our series on Security for Medium Businesses. “Bah,” you say. “None of this newfangled fraud applies to me because I do not use...
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Stopping Fraud: Messaging
Part of our series on Security for Medium Businesses. Note: while understanding is not wholly predicated on formal accreditation, Simple...
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Stopping Fraud: Contracts
Part of our series on Security for Medium Businesses. Note: while understanding is not wholly predicated on formal accreditation, Simple...
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Stopping Fraud: Three Way Match
Part of our series on Security for Medium Businesses. Last week, we discussed how maintaining a list of Valid Vendors can help prevent...
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Stopping Fraud: Vendor Governance
Part of our series on Security for Medium Businesses. Cheating is older than history. The oldest intact written record is a complaint...
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Stopping Fraud: Eliminating Email Forgery
Part of our series on Security for Medium Businesses. I’ll be straight with you: today’s article strays into tech. Today’s...
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Stopping Fraud: Payment Interception
Part of our series on Security for Medium Businesses. Basics of the Scam One of the most common sources of successful business fraud is...
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Stopping Fraud
Part of our series on Security for Medium Businesses. As we’ve covered extensively, the biggest security threat to organizations is...
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Least Privilege 4: Access Governance
Part of our series on Security for Medium Businesses. So there’s a joke that metrics nerds love to tell, especially those in security. A...
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Least Privilege 3: Roles and Segregation of Duties
Last time we discussed how to drive Least Privilege by automatically expiring access and by eliminating generic accounts. To this point,...
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Least Privilege 2: Auto-Expiration and Generic Accounts
Last week we talked about Least Privilege and how it can help reduce the impact of people doing bad things on an account. We started by...
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Least Privilege 1: Intro and Privileged Access
A mainstay of Big Business security frameworks is making sure everyone has barely enough access. This reduces the impact of two threats:...
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