First Things First: Know Your Data

Baan Alsinawi, president and founder of TalaTek

It’s been three years since the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) two data breaches shocked the country and spawned immediate cyber initiatives in response to the theft of millions of highly sensitive records –possibly now resulting in identity fraud, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. In the months that followed, the nation’s agencies were required to make an honest accounting of vital systems and the state of their security …