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Support When You Need It Focal Point’s privacy experts can drop into your privacy program to address specific needs or…

If the past few months have taught us anything, it’s that healthcare organizations need to be able to scale – quickly, securely, and with patient care at the forefront. The key is operational agility. Operational agility is the ability to respond quickly to changing external conditions, without compromising long-term objectives. In a healthcare context, this means being able to respond to rapid swings in public health conditions, new regulatory guidance, or emerging security threats without compromising on patient care, data protection, or research goals. Fundamentally, developing operational agility is about building a core set of processes and capabilities and enabling your people to operate dynamically within that environment.

Focal Point has worked with a number of security operations teams, helping them advance their capabilities, execute on their strategies, and strengthen their skills. More often than not, we’re brought in because stakeholders don’t feel like their security operations are meeting the needs of the organization. When we dive into it, we often find that this “failure” is driven by a misalignment between what security operations does and the expectations of the leadership team. Left to fester, many security operations teams find them on the short end of the long-term leadership support they need.  There are a few ways that this breakdown occurs, but one of the simplest to fix and most commonly overlooked is the name.

Striking the Balance As more organizations embrace cloud computing, the divide between cloud autonomy and compliance becomes greater. Your organization…

The Covid-19 pandemic brought much of the world to a standstill, but one thing it has not impacted is the enforcement date for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The CCPA, which went into effect on January 1 of this year, grants California residents new privacy rights for their personal information and is considered the most robust state privacy law in the U.S. Enforcement of this landmark privacy law begins on July 1, 2020, but Covid-19 has increased concerns over whether companies have the time and resources necessary to be ready by then. Despite dozens of requests for a delay due to Covid-19 pandemic, the California Attorney General Xavier Becerra declined to extend the July 1 deadline, stating that privacy concerns have increased during this time. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at these extension requests, recent CCPA lawsuits, and steps your business can take to prepare for life after July 1.

Mike Scheck, Sr. Director of Incident Command at Cisco Systems, graciously sat down with Focal Point's Justin Avery to discuss his strategy on hiring, training, and retaining employees on his cybersecurity team.

With more than 300,000 Department of Defense (DoD) companies and subcontractors essential to military operations, the defense industrial base (DIB) is a frequent and valuable target for malicious cyberattacks. Potential breaches of intellectual property in this sector could weaken U.S. defense capabilities and become a matter of national security. In an attempt to increase the security and resiliency of the DIB, the U.S. Department of Defense launched Version 1.0 of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) in January 2020. Adapted from industry-recognized frameworks, the CMMC represents a unified cybersecurity standard required for all contractors hoping to do work with the DoD. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at the CMMC framework and how your company can start preparing now for CMMC certification.

What is the CMMC? The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is a framework designed by the Department of Defense (DoD)…