Theresa Payton, former White House CIO and keynote at the 2014 PLUS Cyber Liability Symposium (register now) discusses the dangers of big data and cyber security with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/la3puz/theresa-payton?
Last Thursday's PLUS webinar, The Impact of Cyber Risk on Professional Liability, was our most popular and well-attended virtual event to date. PLUS members can view the entire session in our multimedia library, and everyone can enjoy the clip below featuring moderator Graeme Newman (CFC Underwriting) and Max Perkins (Beazley Group) discussing what's covered under a Cyber policy vs. an E&O policy in the event of a breach at a law firm. Speaking of Cyber Liability... tomorrow (April 1, 2014) is the early registration deadline for the 2014 PLUS Cyber Liability Symposium, April 24 and 25 in Atlanta. Several of [...]
The folks at informationisbeautiful.net once again prove their name with a fascinating and elegant infographic exploring data breaches. The graphic, linked here, shows breaches by year, method of leak, quantity of records stolen and data sensitivity. It is fully interactive, allowing you to filter by a surprising number of variables. DISCLAIMER: If you spend the rest of the day playing around with this graphic PLUS Blog is not responsible. The data is really cool, and we found the most interesting (and perhaps least surprising) element the significant increase in frequency of data breaches from 2004 to present. For much more [...]