I am so grateful to be viewed as a Subject Matter Expert for Cyber Security Incident Response Programs and Planning (CSIRT).
Two Contracts with Fidelity, One extended contract with Major Healthcare Insurance Company, Contracted to write weekly Blog for Metric Stream, Contracted to write Cyber Article for a Company, Contracted to teach CSIRT at -2 day speaking engagements in San Francisco and Baltimore , Contracted for 1 half day speaking engagement, Contracted to conduct 8 webinars.

What this means to you is that I will be posting Posts that are both timely and educational on this subject.

The question is not “if” a Cyber Attack will be attempted, but rather one of “when.”

  • Both Social Security and credit card numbers were stolen from the South Carolina Department of Revenue by hackers in August 2012. A phishing email enabled hackers to steal credentials from users and eventually steal 74 GB of encrypted and unencrypted data.
  • In April, 2012 780,000 individuals were affected in a server hack at the authentication level that allowed hackers to access and steal SSNs and personal health records from the Utah Department of Health One server was not configured according to normal procedure, and this allowed hackers to access the system.
  • Feb 2015, Chinese hackers ‘target US defense, finance firms’ after Forbes cyber attack.
    • US cyber security firms say a Chinese espionage team hacked Forbes magazine to then attack defence contractors, financial firms and other unsuspecting prey visiting the popular news website.
    • Invincea and iSight Partners detailed what they described as a “watering hole” campaign late last year that took advantage of Forbes.com and other legitimate websites.
    • “A Chinese advanced persistent threat compromised Forbes.com to set up a watering hole style web-based drive-by attack against US defence and financial services firms in late November 2014,” Invincea said in a report posted on its website.
    • The “brazen attack” took advantage of vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash and Internet Explorer software which have since been patched, according to Invincea.
  • On Dec 14 2014, Dutch government website outage caused by Cyber Attack.
    • Cyber attackers crippled the Dutch government’s main websites for most of Tuesday and back-up plans proved ineffective, exposing the vulnerability of critical infrastructure at a time of heightened concern about online security.
    • The outage at 0900 GMT lasted more than seven hours and on Wednesday the government confirmed it was a cyber attack.

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