Ostendio Blog (8)

Data Breaches & Data Privacy

What the Capital One Breach Should Teach Us About Vendor Security Management

by Jermaine Jones, COO and CISO, Ostendio
on August 02, 2019

The news of the Capital One breach rocked the banking industry this week. It is significant because it wasn’t a virus or an outside hacker but allegedly a previous employee of a Capital One vendor ...

July 25, 2019

5 lessons learned from the Equifax breach

One of the biggest news items this week in the world of security is the Equifax settlement with the FTC. The Equifax data breach was one of the biggest ever reported, affecting over 150 million customers. Equifax was accused of failing to fix a patch to its network that resulted in the breach. As a ...

By Grant Elliott

July 22, 2019

Preparing for the CCPA? 6 Steps to Get You Started

By Grant Elliott

July 11, 2019

New Document Management Capabilities in Ostendio MyVCM

By Chris Prince

June 11, 2019

Introducing Crosswalk Assessments from Ostendio

Today is an exciting day for Ostendio customers as we launch the third component of our CrossWalk feature set - CrossWalk Assessments. This new capability makes the MyVCM Platform the simplest and most effective way to prepare for and execute security audits. It automatically creates and ...

By Chris Prince

June 10, 2019

Check Out the Brand New Ostendio.com Website!

2019 has been a great year so far for Ostendio! More companies than ever are using MyVCM for Security and Risk Management (also called Integrated Risk Management - IRM), and we’ve been hard at work innovating the platform. In fact, we’ll have some big announcements very soon on that front...stay ...

By Grant Elliott

May 21, 2019

7 Reasons Companies Can’t Avoid a Security Risk Assessment

If you’re a company with the view that cybersecurity is largely an IT issue, you may take the attitude of “We’ve got this.” Hold that thought. When did you last have a security risk assessment (SRA)? Also known as a security risk analysis, the comprehensive information security threat assessment is ...

By Grant Elliott

February 20, 2019

What the HITRUST & NIST Alignment brings to Healthcare Organizations

By Ostendio

February 06, 2019

Risk Management: What does it Mean to your 2019 Security Strategy?

By Ostendio

January 24, 2019

5 Things to Know Before Buying Compliance Management Software

By Ostendio

January 14, 2019

What's Needed for the Private Market to Take Data Security Seriously?

By Ostendio

January 04, 2019

5 Data Privacy and Security Predictions for 2019

By Grant Elliott

January 02, 2019

Open Sesame! Is your password secure?

By Ostendio

November 14, 2018

5 Tips for Creating a Culture of Cybersecurity

You’ve likely heard about organizations having a culture of compliance but not as much about having a culture of cybersecurity. Yet as threats to our sensitive data’s privacy and security ratchet into the red, it’s the perfect time to create a cybersecurity culture that protects your organization ...

By Ostendio

October 24, 2018

5 Ways to Integrate your Cybersecurity and Compliance Programs

Data breaches aren’t just a problem for security professionals. The impact is felt across the whole business—from your legal team, embroiled in litigation, to your frontline employees, who can’t access the tools they need to do their jobs. Everyone needs to play their part in managing the risks, as ...

By Ostendio

September 27, 2018

Why SMBs Need to Ramp up Security Awareness Training

Did you know that small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) may have a higher cybersecurity risk than larger counterparts when you consider employee-to-breach ratios? Recent reports show that SMBs, businesses with 20 to 500 employees, are more at risk specifically due to phishing malware and the lack ...

By Ostendio