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Where’s Your Cyber Risk Insurance Hiding?
There are two different kinds of cyber-related risks (aka liabilities) that threaten small businesses – first-party and third-party – and different small business insurance policies cover each...
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2013 Year-end Highlights: 5 Major Trends in Data Breaches and IT Liability
Between the Edward Snowden saga and the botched Obamacare rollout, 2013 was a year filled with concerns about data security and tech liabilities. Think about it: two of the biggest stories of the year...
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Countdown to 2014: Top 6 Causes of Data Breaches on New Year’s Eve
As you prepare to ring out 2013, make sure your festivities don’t expose your business or your clients to unnecessary risk. Think you’re safe during the holidays? Think again. In fact, experts have...
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How Many Data Breaches Will You Prevent in 2014?
The year 2013 was already deemed a "cyber tipping-point" by Advisen, a market research firm that argues the prevalence of data breaches and growing number of attacks on small businesses will be a game...
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Anatomy of a Data Breach: Key Lessons from Target's Security Breach
Between November 27 and December 15, Target was the victim of a massive data leak. Hackers broke into Target's sales records and stole credit and debit card information for almost 40 million...
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Software Patches: The Good, the Bad, and the Liability
Over the summer, cyber criminals hacked into a web application hosted by the Department of Energy and gained access to more than 100,000 personal records. Hackers were able to break in because the DOE...
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What Google and Twitter Can Teach Us about Testing Software for Security
Any software or web app can have security vulnerabilities – just ask Google, which recently announced it had fixed a bug that allowed hackers to steal passwords from Google accounts.The bug was...
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Your Most Powerful Anti-Data Breach Tool (Spoiler: It’s Client Education)
An IT consultant's work includes more than just installing software and setting up hardware. You may not realize it, but you are also responsible for teaching clients about cyber security. Take the...
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3 Ways to Upgrade Your Data Security for Free
As a small-business owner, every decision you make is affected by your budget. You carefully weigh the tradeoffs before making any major purchase. With that in mind, it's nice when you can get...
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A New Holiday Tradition: 12 Days of Risk-mas
Everyone knows the holiday song "12 days of Christmas," but reports about the prevalence of data breaches over Christmas inspired us to rewrite the classic carol and give it a contemporary twist. Read...
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Common IT Errors and Omissions that Trigger Lawsuits
In the same way that doctors have Malpractice Insurance, IT companies can purchase Professional Liability Insurance (often called Errors & Omissions, or E and O Insurance), which protects them from...
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Data Breach Case Study: Lessons from Target Data Heist
Before Target had even officially acknowledged it was the victim of a data breach, customers had already filed cyber liability lawsuits. Now, two weeks after the attack that exposed millions of holiday...
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Help Clients Build Trust after a Data Breach
Remember Target's massive 40 million user data breach? It just got much worse. It turns out the breach actually involved as many as 70 to 110 million users, and is now the largest data breach in U.S....
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How to Talk Cyber Security with Your Clients
A recent data breach at Snapchat made security experts scratch their heads. How does a company that markets itself as a secure messaging provider end up as the victim of a data breach?There are a...
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What the Reintroduction of the Data Privacy Act Means for Small Businesses
As an IT professional, developer, or consultant, you've probably heard rumblings about a bill called The Data Privacy Act. The bill will increase data security standards and strengthen punishments for...
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5 Steps to Protect Your Business from 2014’s Biggest Data Security Threats
Though we're only in the early stages of 2014, data security experts have already identified a number of growing threats and new trends in cyber security.As an IT professional, you know that new...
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Yet Another Reason Data Breaches Are Worse for Small Businesses
Being a small-business owner isn't easy, so the last thing you want hear is that your cyber assets are at a greater risk than your larger competitors'. Sadly, that seems to be the case.When small IT...
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The Tech Startup Data Problem: Hacking as a Rite of Passage?
The tech startup – there is so much attached to the image. To many, it means all-night coding sessions, wild valuations, desperate attempts to earn venture capital funding, and huge potential payoff...
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The Data Security Act of 2014: What You Need to Know
After the Data Privacy Act was reintroduced in Congress in late January, a second data breach bill made news when the Data Security Act of 2014 was introduced at its heels. Let's take a look at what...
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3 Strategies to Help Small IT Businesses Beat 2014’s Biggest Cyber Threats
Every year, Deloitte publishes its Tech Trends report, which highlights trends from the last 12 months and issues recommendations for technology professionals in the year ahead. The 2013 Tech Trends...
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