Cybersecurity Roundup: Tightening Up Election Security
… clear, focused course of action detailing how it’s being remedied, how it won’t happen again, and what those affected can do to protect themselves from potential damages, he said.
“Depending on the nature of the breach and the information taken, it may also be necessary to make good-faith financial restitution or offer a complimentary service – such as we’ve seen with free credit monitoring from Equifax,” he said.
Cybersecurity providers are an integral component of companies’ efforts to repair customer perception, and they’ll most certainly be included in the dialogue with customers about how future data breaches won’t happen, McGonagill said. Depending on the provider, they may also be involved with the initial forensic fact-finding about how the data breach occurred in the first place. A company’s partnership with a knowledgeable cybersecurity provider can go a long way towards restoring customers’ perceptions after a breach, he said.
In the current climate, a case can be made that not being breached may actually be a competitive advantage, McGonagill said.
“Obviously, it’s better that companies always have the proper cybersecurity safeguards in place so that their customers’ information is secure,” he said. “That reliability is an easy selling point. This is my own speculation, but I would hazard that, from a consumer’s perspective, a company that has never had their data compromised looks more attractive than one that has.”
Cybersecurity should be on every company’s priority list in 2020 and beyond; h owever, while a company can have all the proper structural cybersecurity safeguards in place, one of the most proactive measures should be educating employees on the telltale signs of phishing emails to block the most likely point of entry for data breaches, McGonagill said.
Bitdefender Joins ThreatConnect Developer Partner Program
Bitdefender is now a member of the ThreatConnect Developer Partner Program, allowing the company to leverage ThreatConnect’s intelligence, automation, orchestration and analytics with the goal of helping bring new, joint solutions to market.
Bitdefender’s Advanced Threat Intelligence solution now will be accessible via the ThreatConnect platform.Threat intelligence users will be able to stay current with the latest updates in the data feeds without having to change configuration or write software code.
Jose Lopez, Bitdefender‘s vice president of global sales, service providers and technology licensing, tells us this will be especially beneficial to his company’s partners if they are already ThreatConnect channel partners and MSSPs because they will be able to offer his company’s threat intel feeds to their customers using the ThreatConnect integration.
“Our goal is to integrate our threat intel feeds with the majority of the threat intelligence platforms in the marketplace, starting with ThreatConnect,” he said. “Eventually, our partners will be able to sell our threat intel feeds to customers who are already using any threat intelligence platform.”
Bitdefender’s threat intelligence data is fueled by the Bitdefender Global Protective Network (GPN), which protects more than …