What can we learn from recent NZ cyber-events?
What is real and what is hyperbole?
Scroll down for the MFA revelation – it will surprise you!
Introducing Campbell McKenzie from Incident Response, the team called in after cyber-events to help clean up and manage the aftermath. Campbell will share the lessons learned and what we can all do to reduce our risk of being the next news story.
Check out Campbell’s guide for cyber-guide for law firms and the Kinetics 10-min cyber-briefing paper.
Our takeaway from the presentation was how strong the need for MFA is …
Deputy Privacy Commissioner Liz MacPherson wants all agencies, big or small, to introduce two-factor authentication to protect the information they hold.
She makes the remarks following the findings of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner’s latest small businesses Insights Report and to support CERT’s two factor authentication campaign.
When a cyber security privacy breach occurs, the question compliance officers will ask is “have you taken reasonable cyber security steps to protect the personal data you hold?” Not to have taken reasonable steps is a breach of the Privacy Act and the trust that your customers or clients have placed in you to keep their information safe.
The statement goes on to be very specific.
“Two-factor authentication is a bare minimum we would expect for small businesses or organisations that hold or share personal information digitally. If you are a small business that has a cyber-related privacy breach and don’t have at least two factor-authentication in place expect to be found in breach of the Privacy Act.”