Info Risk Today Podcast

Credit card losses due to synthetic identity fraud exceeded $800 million in the U.S. last year, says Julie Conroy of Aite Group, who analyzes the evolving threat and offers mitigation insights.

Although the National Institutes of Health is implementing strong privacy measures as it begins its effort to enroll 1 million volunteers to contribute data to its "All of Us" precision medicine research project, there are still risks involved, says privacy attorney Kirk Nahra.

With the rise of P2P payment networks and the U.S. working toward a real-time national payments network, the push is on to battle fraudsters. Also, attackers are hacking legitimate websites to more stealthily distribute "Gandcrab" crypto-locking ransomware.

Eduard Goodman, global privacy officer of CyberScout, doesn't like the disorganized way most cyber incidents are handled now. Instead, he would like to see a more project management approach. Here are the benefits he foresees.

If operational technology systems need to get connected to IT systems, it's essential to have tight controls on the network, says Lam Kwok Yan, professor of computer science and engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

At a recent meeting of hospital CEOs in Texas, the leaders said the issue that keeps them awake at night is cybersecurity, says Fernando Martinez of the Texas Hospital Association, who explains why.

We all know about May 25 and the enforcement deadline for Europe's General Data Protection Regulation. But what impact will GDPR have on cybersecurity programs? Danny Rogers of Terbium Labs weighs in on the topic.

Leading the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report: Cambridge Analytica shuts down, saying it's lost all of its customers, and Australia's Commonwealth Bank spots a big, bad potential data breach.

Organizations in all sectors need to strive to adopt a standardized approach for ensuring that security is built into internet of things devices at the design phase, says Vinod Kumar, CEO and managing director at Bangalore-based Subex, a telecom analytics solutions provider.

How might blockchain improve digital identity proofing in the healthcare sector? The National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center and security vendor Trusted Key are testing that out with a proof-of-concept application.