10.13.2021

The Monthly Ten – October 2021

The Monthly Ten – October 2021

The top ten must-reads of the month

We like to write our own articles, but we think others do it well, too

  • 1. Cybersecurity policy failures lead to SEC fines against broker-dealers/investment advisory groups (Business Insurance)
  • 2. Cost of doing business? Financial services organizations pay about $2.1M on average to recover from ransomware attacks (SC Magazine)
  • 3. Administration looks to sanctions to make it harder for hackers to use Bitcoin (WSJ)
  • 4. Apple joins Cyber Readiness Institute (SC Magazine)
  • 5. Phishing campaign appears to have impacted 75K email inboxes (Dark Reading)
  • 6. Many organizations fail to patch severe vulnerabilities immediately (Dark Reading)
  • 7. NSA, FBI, and CISA warn of continued ransomware attacks (Health IT Security)
  • 8. Research shows that moving to the cloud reduces the likelihood of data breaches and ransomware attacks, but that doesn’t mean you can ignore security measures (Health IT Security) 
  • 9. What you need to know about China’s new privacy law (Byteback Law) 
  • 10. Six takeaways from major data breaches this year (Dark Reading)