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By Lucia Giles for Vanta When you leave a job, someone is supposed to shut off your accounts. Your email, your file storage, and the customer database you had access to on your last day. You might assume this happens automatically. New data suggests it often doesn’t. Vanta, an agentic trust platform, analyzed anonymized task

By Regis DeVeaux for Verizon For small-business owners, a cybersecurity review can start with basic questions, Verizon notes: Who has access to business accounts? Is multifactor authentication turned on? Where does sensitive information live? Are backups available, and can the business recover its data? And it only takes about 30-minutes to organize those questions into a

The United States still does not have a single comprehensive federal privacy law resembling the GDPR. That does not mean Congress is standing still. Quite the opposite. By September 2026, lawmakers in the 119th Congress had introduced a sprawling collection of federal proposals addressing consumer privacy, artificial intelligence, children’s data, employee surveillance, reproductive information, precise

Privacy management used to be a one-time compliance exercise. As privacy regulations, AI use and third-party ecosystems expand, it’s now an ongoing operational function. Many privacy regulations today expect organizations to demonstrate accountability, including what governance, technical, and organizational safeguards they use to protect personal information. The specifics may vary across jurisdictions, but the takeaway

The scariest time of year is right around the corner, but the biggest threat to your privacy may have been silently looming in the background all year long.  October is the perfect time to conduct a quick audit of one of the most commonly overlooked threats to your privacy: your public digital footprint. Any sensitive

You’ve probably deleted a shady text message or two without a second thought, and blocking spam email from strangers feels second nature by now. But would you recognize the signs of a SIM swap scam? Also called SIM hijacking, this form of account takeover is more common than ever.  The scale isn’t small, either. In 2025, authorities charged a cybercrime ring with

Without a cybersecurity plan, your business is more vulnerable to cyberattacks, data breaches, financial losses, operational downtime and reputational damage. When an incident happens, the lack of a clear plan can leave teams scrambling to identify the problem, protect affected systems and keep the business moving while costs and risks continue to grow. Over the

Parents often tell their kids, “If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” And today’s online scams may come from a hacked friend’s account, an AI-generated voice that sounds like someone they know or a message shared by someone who believes the information is real. That can make scams especially difficult for

  A new study from Credit One Bank shows that Americans have lost trust in the voice on the other end of the phone. Nearly 84% of respondents have changed at least one financial behavior because of artificial intelligence scam concerns. The most visible change: Over half have stopped answering calls from numbers they don’t

  Healthcare is one of the most cautious industries when it comes to artificial intelligence, but caution hasn’t prevented failures. Three in 4 providers have already had to switch off an AI agent handling patient messages. What actually fails sits deeper than the AI. It’s a couple of days before your doctor’s appointment and, “Ding!”,

  When shoppers walk into a grocery store, they expect security cameras. Few expect the store to analyze their faces, eyes, and voices. Earlier this year, customers entering some Wegmans stores in New York City learned that the retailer was using facial recognition technology in its locations and storing customers’ biometric data. The disclosure, required

  As AI and automation increasingly become embedded into healthcare operations, securing these technologies becomes critical, especially for organizations managing protected health information (PHI), which are frequent targets for cybersecurity threats such as data breaches and unauthorized access. ‍To safeguard this sensitive data, regulatory agencies like the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

  There’s something especially romantic about a summer love. Maybe it’s the heat, the long days, or the extra free time. Or perhaps it’s the fact that many summer flings happen in places far removed from people’s usual routines. Whether you meet someone new while on a trip, exploring new activities, or even on an

  If you work in sales, marketing, or legal, there’s a decent chance someone on your team built an AI-powered tool in the last few months. It could be a workflow, a custom chatbot, or an automation that pulls data from multiple systems. Building it didn’t require IT and it likely works just fine. But

  Your team logs into dozens of apps every day. Sales works in one CRM, support in another ticketing system, and finance in yet another ERP platform. Each department chooses the “best tool for the job,” but no one stops to ask what happens when those tools can’t communicate with each other. The answer is

  Everything has a peak season, and just like heirloom tomatoes, identity theft seems to ripen during the summer. While identity thieves prey on people every day of the year, summer creates an environment in which victims are more susceptible to a number of scams. Below, PeopleFinders breaks down why particular scam attacks increase during the summer,

  On July 1, Connecticut lowered the number of residents’ data a business has to handle before the state’s privacy law applies. The threshold dropped from 100,000 consumers to 35,000, a 65% cut, according to Clym’s analysis of Connecticut’s updated privacy law. Connecticut also removed the threshold entirely for two kinds of businesses: any company

  Courts have upheld roadside plate readers for one reason: They stay put. But a plan to put them on school buses is testing that reason, BusesForSale reports. Depending on your location, your Instagram feed shows that more city councils are voting to pull their license plate cameras off the poles. Coralville, Iowa, pulled its