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...
View ArticleCommon Risks for IT Project Managers Part 2: Legal Risks
When you sign a contract to work with a client, contractor, or subcontractor, you enter into a tangled web of errors and omissions liabilities. If anything goes wrong on the project, it’s common for...
View Article3 Steps to Avoid Client Crises and E&O Lawsuits on Cyber Monday
On December 2, a week from today, millions of Americans will flock to online retail sites to take advantage of the Cyber Monday deals that have become an integral part of the holiday shopping season....
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleYour 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...
View Article3 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleWhere’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...
View Article2013 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...
View ArticleCountdown 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleSurprise! 8 Things You Didn’t Know about Your Small Business Insurance
Let's face it: small business insurance can be confusing. There's no shame in admitting that between learning the ins and outs of Property, General Liability, and Professional Liability Insurance, a...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleYour 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...
View Article3 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleSoftware 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...
View ArticleSpoiler Alert: Downton Abbey Data Breach Shows the Problem with Security...
Notorious hacker Guccifer committed a cyber crime sure to bother loyal fans of the PBS period drama Downton Abbey: he hacked a screenwriter's email account, stole the script for the series finale, and...
View ArticleData 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...
View ArticleHelp 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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