CyberInsights Weekly #10
Your weekly dose of learnings from cybersecurity news
I. When does monitoring become surveillance?
Work from home has increased employee monitoring. A recent article even suggests that the government of India use behavioural profiling of citizens as a part of its National Cybersecurity Strategy 2020.
When does security become Orwellian?
CISO Check:
If your CEO asks you to monitor everything that a specific employee does, how will you strike a balance between monitoring and data privacy of the individual?
Do you have defined and approved processes to handle such requests?
II. Build your incident response playbook
The five eyes states want you to take incident response seriously and have released a joint cybersecurity advisory for uncovering and remediating malicious activity in your network.
CISO Check:
Do you have an incident response playbook?
Do your red teams help improve this playbook?
III. Quote of the week
You can't talk about big data without talking about things like privacy and ownership. - Rick Smolan
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