New Known Breaches in the Past Week - February 4, 2022

Many companies struggle with all of the cybersecurity documentation, processes, and policies that can limit their business growth and REALLY stress them out. Omnistruct serves as an enterprise partner for the critical policies, processes, and documentation needed to make sure all of that data and revenue is well protected against cyber threats and that the company stays in compliance with all rules and regulations.

Breaches exposed 45.67M patient records in 2021, largest annual total since 2015

Hacking and IT incidents were the leading culprits of healthcare data breaches in 2021, increasing by 10% from the previous year, according to a new Critical Insight report. In total, there were 500 incidents tied to hacking last year, compared with 455 in 2020. The report analyzes breaches of protected health information reported to the Department of Health and Human Services by covered entities and business associates last year. It confirms that PHI was exposed at the highest levels seen since 2015. By: Jessica Davis | Jan. 31, 2022 Read More

Managing Detections is Not the Same as Stopping Breaches

Enterprises interested in managed detection and response (MDR) services to monitor endpoints and workloads should make sure the providers have rock-solid expertise in detecting and responding to threats. The fundamental challenge in cybersecurity is that adversaries move quickly. We know from observation that attackers go from initial intrusion to lateral movement in a matter of a couple hours or less. By: Austin Murphy | February 03, 2022 Read More

Market research & conferencing service Civicom exposed 8TB of Data

The company in discussion is Civicom, Inc., who, according to its LinkedIn page, claims to provide “the best audio and web conferencing services on the planet, webinar services, global marketing research services, leading transcription/CRM entry service, general transcription service, online jury trials, and more.” By: Waqas | February 2, 2022 Read More