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Technology Errors & Omissions Insurance in Action: a $17 Million E&O Claim
The Republic recently reported on an IT lawsuit that could cost one tech company more than $17 million. A North Dakota insurance agency filed a lawsuit against Aon eSolutions, a Chicago IT vendor that...
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Client Education: Best Ways to Invite a Data Breach
A Business News Daily article profiles the problems IT professionals face when trying to find efficient and safe file-sharing solutions for their customers. As it points out, finding an IT solution is...
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OpenSSL Made Less Than a Part-Time Fast Food Worker
If there's an upside to the whole Heartbleed debacle, it's that the media drew attention to an incredible disparity: the group that works on OpenSSL gets less than $2,000 dollars a year to maintain the...
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Personal Data Theft Up 82% in the Last 6 Months
According to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in January, nearly one in five Americans reported that they have had private information (such as such as social security and credit card numbers)...
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33% of Businesses Don’t Consult with IT about Their Cyber Insurance Needs
In the aftermath of the Target data breach and OpenSSL Heartbleed security flaw, many clients will want their IT consultants to make sure their data is protected. However, according to research from...
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Study: You Can Probably Talk Your Clients into Buying Cyber Liability Insurance
A new study from the Ponemon Institute shows that many companies are ready to invest in a Cyber Liability Insurance policy, but may need a push from their IT consultants. According to the research, 39...
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Good News: Data Breach Insurance Is Going Mainstream
CNBC reports that from 2012 to 2013, there was a 20 percent increase in businesses investing in Cyber Liability Insurance (aka “Data Breach Insurance” or “Cyber Risk Insurance”). The reasons for this...
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Johns Hopkins Researchers: The Cloud Isn’t Safe Yet!
ScienceDaily reports that a new study from Johns Hopkins University should have IT professionals worried about cloud security. Researchers found that the methodologies that common cloud storage...
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These 9 Mistakes Cause 94% of Data Breaches
Every year, Verizon performs an exhaustive study of the last 12 months of data breaches, looking for trends and patterns that will help data security professionals better protect their clients' data....
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2014 Cost of a Data Breach: 15% Higher
This time of year is an important one for data security research. Verizon publishes its review of the past year's data breaches, and the Ponemon Institute, a tech research organization, publishes its...
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DDoS Attack Shuts Down Salesforce, Exposes IT Department to Liability
In the last two weeks, we've read about a number of high-profile DDoS attacks.A blog at the IT performance solution company ThousandEyes profiles how a recent DDoS attack brought down a few of...
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An Easier Way to Prevent Client Data Breaches
If you follow this blog at all, you know that the threat of client data breaches is everywhere. And as you likely know, when clients are the target of a data breach, they often point the finger at...
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4 Resources to Help You Track Your Hacks
If you’re a security expert or IT consultant, one of your professional responsibilities is to keep track of the security threats that could cause data breaches on your clients’ networks. Because the...
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Apple Award for IP Patents Carves Out More IT Case Law
Lawsuits are something no one likes talking about. They can happen to any business and are hard to plan for. But because people don't talk much about them, there's a lot of confusion about what a...
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Don’t Forget to Floss Your Passwords: “Cyber Hygiene” Is the Latest in Data...
The former head of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff knows a thing or two about security. So when he says that cyber attacks are occurring at "unprecedented" levels, our ears perk up.In a recent...
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12% of iOS Users Are Screechin’ for a Breachin’ (a Data Breachin’)
According to Apple's iOS statistics, 12 percent of its users are still using old versions of the mobile operating system (iOS 6 or earlier), which puts them at serious risk for data breaches. As iOS 7...
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Tried and True: Phishing Scams Still Cause Data Breaches
Phishing attacks can strike organizations of any size. They are especially frustrating for IT professionals because they exploit a weakness that all organizations have: user error.Phishing attacks...
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Addressing (Some) Physical Exposures for Data Breaches
California made news this summer when the state discussed a law that would require mandatory kill switches on smartphones, but as The Independent reports, Minnesota has just beaten the Golden State to...
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Symantec Says Antivirus Software Is Dead. What This Means for Your Clients
Security company Symantec declared in a recent Wall Street Journal article that antivirus software – one of its main products – is "dead," implying it is practically useless at deterring cyber attacks....
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Survey: Consumers Find Data Breaches Only Slightly Better than Oil Spills
New data breach research from Experian examines the effect data breaches have on consumers. With the recent wave of cyber crime and spree of data breaches, this is a hot topic. Experts are looking to...
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