Lumeta appoints Duncan Fisken as Vice President EMEA

Lumeta Corporation, the leader in network situational awareness, today announced the appointment of Duncan Fisken to head up their EMEA operations, manage the expanding number of channel partners, roll out the new Lumeta channel partner program, and bring ecosystem solutions (Lumeta integrated with Carbon Black, Cisco, Gigamon, HP ArcSight, Infoblox, McAfee, Verisign iDefense, etc.) to the channel.

Duncan Fisken joins the Lumeta team with considerable management experience in the enterprise software and networking industries, with both manufacturers and channel partners, including private and publicly listed companies. Fisken has focused on technologies within enterprise wireless mobility, networking and security, with particular reference to secure mobility, and has assisted many companies, such as Xirrus, RedSeal, Fluke Networks, Aruba Networks and CA, in growing their European channel and revenue. He also served as the security sector specialist advisor for UK Trade and Investment and was a founding director of the SEEDA-supported Security Innovation Technology Consortium. Fisken also held senior roles with a succession of IT and IT security-focused businesses in Asia, including Racal Datacom, Datacraft Asia and Netegrity.

“With Duncan expanding our EMEA team and heading up our operations, we are now well placed to capitalize on the growth in both revenue and channel partners we have seen over the past three years – a substantial increase in our client base including Government agencies and enterprise organizations in Energy, Oil & Gas, Banking & Financial Services and other key vertical markets,” said Pat Donnellan, CEO, Lumeta Corporation. For the full article click here 

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FCC Holds Off on Security Mandates for Internet of Things

Don’t expect the Federal Communications Commission to rush into issuing network security rules anytime soon, even in the face of a congressional inquiry seeking the agency’s response to the massive Oct. 21 distributed denial of service attack.

At issue is whether the FCC’s Open Internet rules restrict internet service providers’ ability to block insecure Internet of Things (IoT) devices from their networks and whether the commission should mandate greater safeguards.

But the commissioners generally believe the Open Internet order already gives ISPs sufficient leeway to protect their networks from vulnerable internet-connected devices without additional regulations or standards. And, according to FCC officials, there isn’t much of an appetite to issue any new mandates now.

There are also questions as to whether cybersecurity is even in the commission’s purview.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) sent a letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler on Oct. 25, several days after a hijacked network of IoT devices took large swaths of the United States internet offline. Warner asked detailed questions about the commission’s role in empowering both ISPs and consumers with the means to prevent similar attacks in the future. For the full article click here 

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Take steps towards cyber security, protect customer’s data

Think of all the places your personal information is stored. Not just physically at home, but in online accounts, at the businesses you work with, with your employer, your doctor and so on.

Knowing that data breaches have become all too common, we have to hope these places are protecting our personal information. That’s why cybersecurity must be everyone’s job. Whether you’re an owner, manager or staff member, you are a crucial part of protecting information.

We know criminals want to attack big businesses, but small businesses are not immune. Bad guys target smaller organizations because they expect there to be fewer resources and defenses safeguarding data.

Research by the National Cyber Security Alliance and Symantec on small businesses has shown that two thirds say their businesses depend on the internet for day-to-day operations. Sixty-nine percent say they handle sensitive information, including customer data; 49 percent have financial records and reports; 23 percent have their own intellectual property; and 18 percent handle intellectual property belonging to others. For the full article click here 

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A Peek Into Singapore’s New Cybersecurity Act.

The Singapore Government announced earlier this year that a new, standalone Cybersecurity Act will be tabled in Parliament in 2017. On 26 October 2016, the Minister for Communications and Information, Mr Yaacob Ibrahim, provided a further glimpse of the impending laws. The Minister was speaking at the Financial Times Cyber Security Summit Asia Pacific held in Singapore.

The new Cybersecurity Act will institute standards for incident reporting, audits and risk assessments. It will also facilitate the sharing of cybersecurity information, and mandate the participation of critical information infrastructure operators in cybersecurity exercises.

Importantly, the Government envisions that the new Act will complement the existing Computer Misuse and Cybersecurity Act, which will continue to govern cybercrime investigation.

The Minister also observed that businesses need to spend more on cybersecurity, to keep pace with increased digitisation. At present, the Government is the largest contributor of cybersecurity expenditure. It plans to further increase its cybersecurity spending to 8 percent of its information technology budget. For the full article click here 

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USNA breaks ground at new Cyber Security Studies Center

The U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new $106-million Center for Cyber Security Studies Oct. 21.

Three hundred people attended the event, including academy officials, Navy leaders and members of the Maryland delegation, U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski and U.S. Representatives John Sarbanes and C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger.

The center was established in recognition of the critical importance that cyber operations play in our national defense and to facilitate the expansion of the Naval Academy’s cyber program, which includes a cyber operations major and required cyber curriculum for all midshipmen. Cyber operations is an interdisciplinary major that includes study in computer architecture, programming, data structures, networks, internet, database systems, information assurance, cryptography and forensics, as well as policy, law, ethics and social engineering. For the full article click here 

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Red Cross data breach could have exposed donors to identity theft, cyber security expert says

Information from the Red Cross data breach could have been used for identity theft or sold on the black market if “unsavoury” criminals had obtained it, a computer security expert from the University of Melbourne says.

The personal data of 550,000 blood donors was leaked from the Red Cross Blood Service in what has been described as Australia’s largest security breach.

The organisation said a file containing donor information was placed in an “insecure computer environment” and “accessed by an unauthorised person”.

The file contained the information of people who had donated blood between 2010 and 2016.

The Red Cross said all copies of the data had now been deleted and the risk of the misuse of the data was low. For the full article click here 

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Penn State continues to promote cybersecurity after hacks

Penn State has about 100,000 students across 20 physical campuses, plus an online World Campus. Then there are the faculty, staff and administration.

What do all of those people have in common? Computers. Technology. A rushing stream of information moving invisibly through and around devices and servers around the clock.

It’s amazing. And if you are charged with keeping that information safe, it might be downright terrifying.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants everyone to be aware of that right now. October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

Penn State is certainly aware of it. In May 2015, the school confirmed hacking of the College of Engineering. In June, the school revealed more attacks on the College of Liberal Arts. For the full article click here 

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