Original Source: Career Info Security / Marianne Kolbasuk McGee

It’s been just over a year since health plan Anthem Inc. reported a record-breaking hacker attack affecting nearly 79 million individuals.

A number of key lessons have emerged from that breach that other organizations can apply to improve their own data security. Those lessons include the need to boost education of users about phishing; monitor IT environments and baseline user behavior; keep anti-malware programs up to date; implement two-factor authentication and data loss prevention tools; reassess how much personal information to collect and store; and develop and test an incident response plan.

Contributors: Open Source
Categories: Industry Articles, SIG U Resource
SRC Type: Risk Management, Sourcing Management, Third Party Management