So far 2020 has the whole world turned upside down. A true global pandemic, global economic fallout still happening from a shutdown caused by the pandemic and a level of global social unrest that hasn’t been seen in 40-50 years. Yes, it is overwhelming. But, it is also very clear that the criminal factors and nation-state attackers are well aware no one is watching the hen house too.
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Too often our human selves will happily put off some responsibilities on others if we can find any small reason for doing so. It may not be our best quality but it is certainly one that bonds most of us together. I personally can’t name anyone that would say sorry I would like to take responsibility for something I think is your responsibility. In our world today we all need to take responsibility for helping protect the group as a whole. The NICE team from NIST published something about just that when it comes to cybersecurity. Time to get ready to discuss it is everyone’s responsibility, not just a select few.
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If you are a fan of horror flicks you know the story. Even if you are not a fan you probably know the line from When A Stranger Calls: “the calls are coming from a phone inside the house”. That stuff happens in the opening. Personally, I have never made it through that part much less through the whole thing. Today we have a whole new horror flick to discuss: cyberattacks coming from inside the network. Maybe we should hold this until Halloween but who knows what will happen then, we need to cover this because it is happening now.
Perfect timing rarely happens these days but we have been discussing updating incident response plans based on what we have learned in the last two months. In fact, we ended our last episode saying the response plan update is one of the most important things you should do. Like magic Erik Decker posts on LinkedIn this week that the HIC group has finished a new guide specifically about crisis response.
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We always know when serious stuff has happened behind the scenes and OCR got involved. Some major violations of privacy rights must have happened when we see the OCR notice reminding everyone that you can not share patient information with the media without authorization.
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We mentioned in the last episode that we would put together a checklist of sorts for what to do as everyone switches back to the old way of doing business or sets up under new remote models. While this isn’t exactly a copy and paste checklist it does give you food for thought as to what to consider for your own reboot checklist.
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When can we stop talking about ransomware? Apparently, never. One of the things we can list as part of our “new normal” is new ways ransomware is going to be impacting us differently. Things are worse today than when we discussed ransomware just a couple of months ago. The pandemic has opened up so many ways for the criminals to attack they are having a field day.
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