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An alarming 70% of the campaign websites reviewed in the OTA 2020 U.S. Presidential Campaign Audit failed to meet OTA’s privacy and security standards – potentially exposing visitors to unnecessary risks. Only seven (30%) of the analyzed campaigns made… Continue reading 70% of presidential campaigns fail to provide adequate online privacy and security protections
Many organizations’ privacy statements fail to meet common privacy principles outlined in GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA, including the user’s right to request information, to understand how their data is being shared with third parties and the ability… Continue reading Organizations continue to struggle with privacy regulations
BitSight Enterprise Analytics enables more effective risk management BitSight Enterprise Analytics helps security and risk leaders gain insight into the impact of risk introduced at the organizational group level – from subsidiaries to business units a… Continue reading New infosec products of the week: August 16, 2019
The financial impact of ransomware rose by 60%, losses from business email compromise (BEC) doubled, and cryptojacking incidents more than tripled, all despite the fact that overall breaches and exposed records were down in 2018, according to Internet … Continue reading More than 2 million cyber incidents in 2018 created $45 billion in losses
The Internet Society announced that it has appointed Sarah Armstrong as Executive Director of the Internet Society Foundation. In her new role, Ms. Armstrong will be responsible for leading the development of the Foundation’s grant programs and organiz… Continue reading Sarah Armstrong appointed as Executive Director of the Internet Society Foundation
The Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative, supported by the Internet Society, announced that Microsoft has joined the program whose primary objective is to reduce the most common threats to the Internet’s routing system. Routing… Continue reading Microsoft wants to improve routing security
65% of consumers are concerned with the way connected devices collect data. More than half (55%) do not trust their connected devices to protect their privacy and a similar proportion (53%) do not trust connected devices to handle their information res… Continue reading Consumers care deeply about their privacy, security, and how their personal information is handled
70 percent of websites qualified for the 2018 Online Trust Audit and Honor Roll, the highest proportion ever, and up from 52 percent in 2017, driven primarily by improvements in email authentication and session encryption. This tenth annual audit of mo… Continue reading Which organizations place a premium on security and privacy?
The Online Trust Alliance, which has for a dozen years brought together business leaders from cybersecurity and technology companies to develop technical standards and public audits designed to maximize consumer security and trust online, is merging with the much larger and older Internet Society, the organizations announced Wednesday. “We are always looking to see what we can do to amplify our efforts,” OTA President and Executive Director Craig Spiezle told CyberScoop, saying that merger discussions had begun after a chance meeting with Internet Society Chief Internet Technology Officer Olaf Kolkman in Austin last October. Neither organization was really looking for partnership at that time, he said, “One thing led to another.” The Internet Society was founded in 1992, by two men widely regarded as the fathers of the internet — Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn. It is one of the oldest parts of the so-called internet governance ecosystem — the hodgepodge […]
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The Online Trust Alliance, which has for a dozen years brought together business leaders from cybersecurity and technology companies to develop technical standards and public audits designed to maximize consumer security and trust online, is merging with the much larger and older Internet Society, the organizations announced Wednesday. “We are always looking to see what we can do to amplify our efforts,” OTA President and Executive Director Craig Spiezle told CyberScoop, saying that merger discussions had begun after a chance meeting with Internet Society Chief Internet Technology Officer Olaf Kolkman in Austin last October. Neither organization was really looking for partnership at that time, he said, “One thing led to another.” The Internet Society was founded in 1992, by two men widely regarded as the fathers of the internet — Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn. It is one of the oldest parts of the so-called internet governance ecosystem — the hodgepodge […]
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