- Published
- Source
- Help Net Security
- Filed under
- Data breaches, Privacy, Attacks
- Affected
- 3M people
The Pentagon’s Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) is notifying millions of people that hackers gained access to their personal data. The breach affects 2.76 million living individuals, a group that can include current and former defense personnel and their dependents, along with 294,000 deceased individuals, a Defense Department official told CNN. Established in 1974, DMDC…
What it means for organisations
- Know what personal data you hold, where it lives and who can reach it – most obligations start there.
- Collect only what you need, and be able to say why you hold it and for how long.
- Report a serious personal data breach to the ICO within 72 hours of becoming aware of it.
MyCyberWay training
Compliance · part of our training
Regulation lands on the security team. We teach how it works day to day.
Compliance runs through our programmes: how ISO 27001 and NIST requirements land on daily SOC tasks and audit evidence in Blue Team Analyst, and designing controls to ISO 27001 Annex A, NIST CSF 2.0, CIS v8 and Cyber Essentials Plus in Blue Team Engineer – with risk assessment and a properly written risk register.
- ISO 27001 Annex A and NIST CSF 2.0
- CIS Controls v8 and Cyber Essentials Plus
- Audit evidence with Purview and Intune
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