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Just got through the New Year. Check. (Happy New Year by the way!)
Ready for an exciting 2018. Check.
Looking forward to a LOT more sales next year?
Are you ready for the deadline to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)?
On February 1, 2018, version 3.2 of the PCI DSS best practices will no longer be just “best practices”.
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The majority of physicians in the United States have experienced some sort of cybercrime in the past few years. A study by the American Medical Association (AMA) revealed that over 80% of doctors have experienced some sort of attack in recent years.
And the troubling part to me is the fact that most of these attacks could have been easily prevented if IT Support had simply implemented comprehensive and sustainable support aimed at HIPAA compliance (for more details on this, see my recent book on making HIPAA compliance and healthcare cybersecurity attainable).
Of doctors who reported having cyber incidents, many fall into all too common classifications:
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Are you ever struggling to figure out why something in your business isn’t quite working right?
Is it taking longer to get work done than you’d like? Is your team frustrated that efforts of improvement aren’t working the way anyone had hoped?
Most businesses face necessary process changes over the course of time because environments change. Customer demand changes. Vendors change their products and services. Team members change. There are too many unpredicted events that could have serious implications on your ability to produce high value products.
Too often, businesses produce work product without even considering their processes. Many core and critical processes go undefined, which leads to an accumulation of waste and diminished value from a customer perspective.
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December is prime season for giving. All the holiday shopping for those special people in and out of the workplace. All of the charities that could really benefit from your end of year donation.
But what many overlook when the holidays come around is the fact that scams actually increase during the month of December. Cybercriminals exploit your excitement for holiday festivities and charitable spirits, leading to upticks in personal identity theft and business data breaches.
Today, I want to walk through some of the scams that we’ve seen popping up this year. For a refresher on what scams tend to look like, see our previous discussion of how to avoid scams.
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Keeping security at the end of the year will help your credit union pass your NCUA Examination and keep your users safe in 2018! Come visit our FREE credit union cybersecurity webinar that happens NEXT week!
Why does computer security have to be so technical?
The problem I find with most cybersecurity talks is that the experts have little ability (or desire) to speak in plain English to folks that really need commonsense and practical explanations of security and why they should be worried about cybersecurity in their business.
That’s where practical computer security comes in!
What exactly is practical security?
Most IT Support companies (and internal IT Security officers) tend to make IT support work harder and make usability more complicated when adding layers of security. At its core, what most businesses need to stay competitive, compliant and secure is practical security.
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