Cyber attacks

Yet despite widespread awareness, the deficit of trained personnel is growing worse

Reacting as quickly as possible and restoring data from backups are key ingredients for recovery.

The law is largely based on similar regulation in New York state, but has key differences, lawyers say.

Perhaps of greatest concern, a new study showed that uncertainty is highest among IT security experts, who should therefore be more familiar with the issue.

More rules may not be the best answer to protecting financial services against cyber attacks.

While keeping up with regulatory changes remains a big challenge, insurers are focused on cybersecurity and IT risk at high levels.

Calls for less reliance on credit bureaus and Social Security numbers for verification are leading many to envision a future of identity on a distributed ledger.

The offering uses mimicked version of an information system to fool hackers, says Chris Albery of the HITRUST organization.

Equifax's data breach may be the most serious, given that it covered 143 million consumers and involved reams of confidential information, but it wasn't the largest. Following are the biggest to date.

Organizations paid $301M to cyber attackers in 2016, and incidents are expected to increase over the next two years.