On May 1, 2020, the White House ratcheted up cybersecurity protection for the nation’s power grid by empowering the Secretary of Energy to prohibit the sale of certain foreign-made equipment for use in the US bulk power...more
Your heart raced when the caller on the phone identified himself as an FBI agent. But the conversation was matter-of-fact.
About 2,500 sets of credit card information from your clients had been posted for sale on a...more
4/30/2018
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Originally published in the Upstate Business Journal on February 15, 2018.
Meet Peter — a longtime employee and the backbone of your business’s day-to-day finance and accounting operations. Today he got an email from the...more
3/5/2018
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Email ,
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Popular ,
Risk Management ,
Small Business ,
Websites
In summer 2015, the spies of a foreign country gained access to a private company’s domain name – pick any company you like, or several, since we don’t know which ones or how many. And within those domains, they created false...more
2/16/2018
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Data Protection ,
Democratic National Committee ,
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FBI ,
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Foreign Relations ,
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Driverless cars and driver-assist systems are poised to change transportation as profoundly and as quickly as the internet has changed shopping and communications. Examples of the first wave of this technology that is on the...more
2/16/2018
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Connected Cars ,
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Cybersecurity ,
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Driverless Cars ,
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Motor Vehicles ,
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Privacy Concerns ,
Technology Sector
As their methods evolve, cybercriminals are increasingly targeting regional manufacturing businesses with sophisticated and potentially costly attacks. A recent ransomware attack on a mid-sized manufacturer in the Southeast...more
The cyber war battlefield has expanded, and your business is now a fighter and a target.
A new U.S. Government report explains many reasons for identifying and penalizing Russian hackers, the Russian intelligence...more
One day in the not too distant future, your organization may be fighting to protect its balance sheet against high-stakes claims in a cyber tort trial. Arrayed against you will be the best of the class action plaintiff’s...more
4/18/2016
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We all know why selecting appropriate data security standards is difficult. No two business are the same. Different businesses have different assets to protect and different bank accounts to tap. Different sized businesses...more