New Year, Simple Advice: Lower Cyber Risk and Reduce Liability
The start of a new year is a good time to reiterate cybersecurity best practices and what can happen when we get careless.
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Are Your Company Secrets Walking Out the Door and Being Posted?
Hackers are a huge threat to businesses, disrupting networks and stealing all sorts of data. This phenomenon appears to be the focus of the media as well as companies concerned about security. But, just as threatening is the employee who puts the crown jewels of the company on his or her mobile device or online.
Read moreWhat You Need to Know about Contingency Planning
In spite of an organization’s best efforts to prevent down time and avoid compromises, failures will still happen from time to time. Former FBI Director Robert Mueller said, “There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be. Even that is merging into one category: those that have been hacked and will be again.” So, what is your organization doing about it? How do you plan for failures and security breaches?
Read moreWhat You Need to Know about Asset Protection
In order to protect your assets, you must first know what they are, where they are, and how they are tracked and managed. Are they secured? Who has access to them? Who tracks and manages them? Do you have functional procedures in place to respond and recover from a security breach quickly? Do you have a process improvement cycle to prevent re-occurrence?
Read moreNational Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Shared Responsibility
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, created a decade ago by the US Department of Homeland Security and the National Cybersecurity Alliance to educate the public and help ensure everyone has the resources needed to be safer and more secure online. This year’s theme is shared responsibility, with a focus on protecting the Internet and the active role each of us can take to do so. Global Knowledge is a sponsor Champion of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and will be posting security-focused blogs throughout the month.
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