April 27, 2017
The Anatomy of an Email Data Breach
Verizon’s recent announcement of a data breach in their Enterprise Solutions unit is just the most recent of a staggeringly high number of organizational data breaches in the U.S.
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April 24, 2017
4 Steps You Can Take to Safeguard Protected Health Information
The digitization of medical care has become a double-edged sword. Healthcare providers like Kaiser Permanente have used medical records to improve the health of their members. In 2015, the National Committee for Quality Assurance found that Kaiser Permanente ranked first in 21 different healthcare quality measures, more than any other health plan in the country. Kaiser’s quality of care is due in no small part to its sophisticated medical records system.
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April 20, 2017
How to Identify and Prevent Insider Data Breaches
A little known fact about corporate identity theft is that a large percentage of data breaches originate inside the organization’s walls. A recent report by Intel estimates that 43% of data breaches are the result of insider threats. Half of the insider breaches came from employee negligence and half came from malicious actions.
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April 17, 2017
How to Protect Your Business From Tax Scams
Do you think the IRS is protecting your personal information from cyber thieves? Apparently the Government Accountability Office (GAO) doesn’t think so. In a March 2016 report titled, “IRS Needs to Further Improve Controls Over Financial Taxpayer Data”, the GAO found that 28 vulnerabilities that the IRS claimed to have resolved have still not been fixed.
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April 13, 2017
Are You Protected if Your Supply Chain Gets Hacked?
In today’s world, it’s not uncommon for organization’s to have some type of system in place to protect themselves from a potential data breach. Many use secure password protocols, two factor authentication logins and even invest in cyber education for their employees to minimize the possibility of insider breaches.
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April 10, 2017
5 Ways to Better Secure Your Employees’ Passwords
As providers of comprehensive cybersecurity solutions, we’re often asked how an organization can better ensure that their employees are being safe online. There are numerous ways to prevent a data breach, from the implementation of a threat intelligence tool to network security protocols thatscreen your supply chain.
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March 06, 2017
Speed: The Crucial Element in Data Breach Detection and Response
If you think you’re immune from hackers, consider this USA Today headline from March 25, 2016:1.5M Customers of Verizon Anti-Hacking Unit Hacked. We bring this headline to your attention not to cast aspersions on Verizon, but to illustrate that no organization is immune from hackers.
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March 03, 2017
It’s Time to Take Stolen Email Credentials Seriously!
Are you concerned about hackers stealing your organization’s email credentials and accessing your organizations PII or confidential information? If you’re not, you should be.
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March 01, 2017
Is Healthcare Cyber Secure? An Infographic
Keeping your healthcare organization cyber secure is no easy feat. In fact, almost every organization is vulnerable to a cyber attack, no matter what the industry. Just look at the headlines featuring major breaches to entities like the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security alongside medical institutions like MedStar.
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