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3rd Party Vendors of Healthcare Providers Must Meet Hipaa Regulations

The HIPAA aims to protect health-related and personal information of individuals, including medical records, health insurance data, SSNs, etc.

Aug 13, 2018
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How Strong Is Your Ssl/tls? 6 Simple Steps to Make It Stronger

How strong is your SSL/TLS configuration? Six concrete steps to harden it, plus the misconfigurations Black Kite sees most often across vendor scans.

Jul 31, 2018
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Lesson From Ticketmaster Breach: Cdn Security of Third-party Suppliers

Lessons from the TicketMaster breach: how CDN security at third-party suppliers becomes the silent failure point in modern supply chain compromises.

Jul 22, 2018
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Outsmart Your Hackers

lack Kite Cyber Risk Scorecards give you the visibility to outsmart your hackers.

Jul 15, 2018
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3.8 Billion Stolen Credentials Are Out There! How About Yours?

3.8 billion stolen credentials are circulating across the surface, deep, and dark web. Here's how to check your exposure — and how to act before attackers do.

Jul 8, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security

Artificial intelligence for cyber security opens up new opportunities to protect organizations.

Jul 3, 2018
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Have You Patched Your Holes? 6 Simple Things for Patch Management

Have you patched your holes? Six concrete patch management practices that close the vulnerabilities attackers actually exploit in third-party software.

Jun 29, 2018
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What Is Patch Management?

Patch management explained: what it is, why timing matters, and how third-party patch lag drives most preventable supply chain breaches today.

Jun 24, 2018
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2018 Guide to Select 3rd Party Cyber-risk Assessment Tool

Survey conducted by Ponemon reveals that 56% of companies have experienced a 3rd-party breach in 2017, an increase of 7% compared to prior year.

Jun 18, 2018
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Are You Ready for Hackers Incoming Supply-chain Attacks?

A recent report released by 401TRG reveals that Chinese hackers are now getting prepared for software supply-chain attacks.

Jun 5, 2018
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Supply Chain Cyber Risk Are Finally Part of the Nist Cybersecurity Framework!

Supply chain cyber risk is now part of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. Here's what changed, why it matters, and how to map your program against it.

Jun 4, 2018
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Add Your Iot Devices to Your Third-party Cyber Risk Assessments

Add IoT devices to your third-party cyber risk assessments. The 'S' in IoT is silent for a reason — and the exposure is real. Here's how to assess it.

May 24, 2018

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