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Three Types of Business E-Mail Compromise Scams You Need to Recognize

The internet has changed the way businesses operate around the world. Having access to a tool of this caliber is essential to the way corporations function today, but it also has ...

Why Employee Data May Pose Biggest Cyber Risk

By: Kevin Lancaster on 5/15/17 13:54

Cyber risk is no longer a potential threat to put on the back burner for later review. The reality is that cyber risk is a threat right now. Many organizations are taking ...

Are You Doing Enough to Protect Your Customers’ Data?

By: Kevin Lancaster on 5/11/17 13:52

Protecting sensitive customer data on your networks isn’t just the right thing to do - it may now be a legally sanctioned practice. Recently the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ...

Phishing Scam Targets Human Resources Professionals

By: Kevin Lancaster on 5/8/17 13:51

The IRS recently issued an alert, warning Human Resources or Payroll professionals to be on the lookout for an email scheme designed to steal employee data from W-2 forms. The ...

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Can Your Employees’ Personal Identity Theft Affect Your Organization?

By: Kevin Lancaster on 5/4/17 13:49

Identity theft continues to grow at an alarming rate. Statistics show that 3% of the U.S. population experienced credit card fraud at least once in 2014. Not to mention that, “an ...

7 Benefits to Providing Identity Theft Protection to Your Employees

By: Kevin Lancaster on 5/1/17 13:48

Among all of the security features a company needs in order to truly protect itself, it’s easy to forget about the most important aspect of an organization that needs to stay out ...

The Anatomy of an Email Data Breach

By: Kevin Lancaster on 4/27/17 13:47

Verizon’s recent announcement of a data breach in their Enterprise Solutions unit is just the most recent of a staggeringly high number of organizational data breaches in the U.S.

4 Steps You Can Take to Safeguard Protected Health Information

By: Kevin Lancaster on 4/24/17 13:45

The digitization of medical care has become a double-edged sword. Healthcare providers like Kaiser Permanente have used medical records to improve the health of their members. In ...

How to Identify and Prevent Insider Data Breaches

By: Kevin Lancaster on 4/20/17 13:44

A little known fact about corporate identity theft is that a large percentage of data breaches originate inside the organization’s walls. A recent report by Intel estimates that ...

How to Protect Your Business From Tax Scams

By: Kevin Lancaster on 4/17/17 13:42

Do you think the IRS is protecting your personal information from cyber thieves? Apparently the Government Accountability Office (GAO) doesn’t think so. In a March 2016 report ...

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