Today, the hotels of Donald Trump reported a data breach that could have compromised the credit card data and identities of customers in six of their hotels that range from the United States and abroad. The targeted system has been identified as the point of sale systems utilized to process payments for consumers. The data range of the compromised locations range from May 2014 to June 2015 for facilities located in Chicago, Honolulu, New York and Toronto; Trump International

MIT, one of the most prestigious and recognized schools of higher learning in the world is not displaying strength or creativity in their security posture. In a recent study, MIT fell short in many information security segments and does not have an information security management system to protect the students, employees, intellectual property and more. This comes as a surprise, however, one cannot judge the security posture of a firm blindly by their economic status or posit

A laptop stolen from a member of the faculty of New Orleans School of Medicine has exposed patient data of citizens living in Mississippi and Louisiana. The laptop was stolen from a doctor’s car and the doctor reported the laptop as stolen to the police and to the university. Leaving company issued devices in vehicles is a practice that firms should restrict through policy and severely enforce non-compliance. The university did not have a published standard and policies for t

Now since the FTC has been granted the authority to enforce information security on firms not adhering to regulatory standards, they are also issuing global warnings. The FTC has warned all start-ups to adopt information security into their growth plans. This makes sense because start-ups are typically concerned with raising capital and increasing the number of users in their database and often are not concerned with securing the consumers privacy and/or transactions. Most st