Securing data is the law across several industries and you’re a legal expert. Ensuring your own practice is properly safeguarding client data should be simple, right? Not so much. This means that it’s more important than ever for your firm to rely on IT and cyber security professionals to guide you to cyber safety. There’s…
Running a business is a lot of work. On top of day to day operations, there’s a lot of IT “stuff” to take care of. Phones, computers, email, antivirus software, servers, the list goes on… You might be realizing that you need some extra help with IT projects, but it’s hard to know where to…
Cyber attacks impede a healthcare organization’s ability to provide care to patients. They’re time consuming and costly and include, downtime, productivity loss, business process disruption, forensic investigation, remediation, data loss, recovery of effected data and devices, reputational damages, and additional employee training. The best way to combat a cyber attack is to prevent it by…
What is NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation? The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Cybersecurity Regulation, or 23 NYCRR 500, is a recently introduced set of cybersecurity regulations directed at financial institutions. Originally announced in 2016 and put into effect on March 1, 2017 – NYDFS regulations featured a phased release to give organizations time to…
You’ve put a lot of time and effort into making your business successful. You’ve written your mission statement, streamlined your service offerings, crafted the perfect price points, created social media pages, and hired the right crew to help you out. Every business needs technology to thrive so you may have even outsourced your IT needs…
Short on time? Check out our infographic that sums it all up here. Take a second to open a new tab and Google “cell phone hacking”. What do most of the results look like? Are they tips on how to prevent your phone from being hacked? News stories about a mass phone hacking scandal? Nope.…
If you clicked to read this blog post, chances are you are already familiar with PCI compliance and what it entails; but as a refresher from another one of our PCI compliance blog posts, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a set of security standards designed to ensure that ALL companies that…
Hackers target attorneys. According to the National Law Review, “As more and more clients send cyber due-diligence questionnaires to outside counsel to confirm that their sensitive information is secure, law firms have shored up their defenses, but a recent report by Logicforce found that is just not enough. Of the 200 law firms surveyed for…
Sixty percent of small businesses get hacked each year, but why? One of the main reasons is that small businesses are simply not spending enough on cyber security. With the frequency of breaches increasing at alarming rates, what’s a small business to do? Luckily for all of us small businesses out there, human error is…
The Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was signed into law over 20 years ago. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) was created in 2009 to, in part, encourage the implementation of electronic health records (EHR) and supporting technology. A number of additions have been made to HIPAA to…