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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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So You Hired a Dud. Here’s What’s Next.
One of the hardest things many small-business owners have to do is fire one of their employees. Emotionally taxing and fraught with liabilities, firing can be a minefield for potential lawsuits and...
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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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So Your IT Staffing Agency Recommended a Dud. Here’s What’s Next.
Running an IT staffing agency can be an incredible risky operation. The Edward Snowden saga reminds us that staffing firms might not always know what they’re getting from their contractors. In this...
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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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Obama: Freelancers Are the Future in Tech and Elsewhere
If you're a tech freelancer or IT contractor, you're in good company: CNBC notes that fully one in three Americans work as freelancers. This marks a significant rise in freelance employment in the last...
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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 Mobile Future & Why You’ll Need E&O Insurance in It
Ted Leonsis, entrepreneur and executive of AOL and Groupon, predicts that small businesses can see huge growth by capitalizing on new trends in mobile marketing.As it has become cheaper and easier to...
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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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Clients Care about Cyber Security All of a Sudden? Hooray! Here’s How to...
Since the major data breach at Target, everyone and their mother has been talking about data breaches, which means your clients will probably have more questions about their own cyber security. They'll...
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The Dumbest Ways to Lose Your Data
Data breaches are often preventable. That's the sad truth. Businesses get sloppy, turn off security settings, or don't practice basic data security. This truth was highlighted recently when data...
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Client Education Resources for Fighting Data Breaches
It's nice when someone does the work for you. This week, the Consumer Protection Bureau released a guide to preventing consumer data breaches, which is a helpful resource to use with clients.The...
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Developers: PayPal Wants You to Like Them (and Probably Also Wants You to...
PayPal recently ate a large slice of humble pie, acknowledging that it lost out on potential new business. The story goes that PayPal's service was never very developer-friendly. The online-payment...
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Don’t Let Your Employees Cause Your Next Data Breach
At the end of January, the Coca-Cola Company announced that nearly 80,000 of its private records had been compromised in a data breach. Among other things, the records contained some 20,000 Social...
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What Flappy Birds Can Teach You about Mobile Device Security
As part of our ongoing examination of new cyber threats, this blog has focused on mobile device vulnerability. We’ve highlighted growing mobile threats in "The Mobile Future & Why You'll Need...
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Data Breach Ripple Effects: The Scary Truth
How much does a data breach cost? Simply put, a data leak is very, very expensive. To make matters worse, you can pay for a data breach for years. The cost of the recent Target data breach, for...
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Why IT Contractors Shouldn’t Hold Their Breath for Universal Data Breach...
The design and implementation of data breach laws are complicated by the fact that breaches are often international. When a website is hacked, its users might be from many countries, and the hackers...
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