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Cyberattacks have spiked dramatically since the COVID-19 crisis began, leading to what some are calling a “cybercrime pandemic” as hackers capitalize on vulnerabilities inherent in a newly remote workforce. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is receiving between 3,000 to 4,000 new internet crime complaints each day, compared to an average 1,000 daily before the…
Have you made your New Year’s resolutions? According to a YouGov poll, the top personal New Year’s resolutions for 2019 were to exercise more, adopt healthy eating habits, and save more money. Business leaders commonly resolve to improve efficiency, update technology or facilities and reduce their carbon footprint. Whatever your resolutions for 2020, the odds…
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) to disseminate cybersecurity facts, best practices, and promote free resources to make organizations and individuals safer and more secure. Recent cybersecurity threat data is staggering. Symantec’s…
Data protection rules are getting an overhaul in Europe, which likely will create a ripple effect that impacts U.S.-based organizations, regardless of whether they have European operations. Starting Friday, May 25, the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will go into effect to update personal data rules, changing the requirements for organizations collecting and managing…
Kidnapping is a severe and historic issue in countless countries across the world.1 Approximately 800,000 people in the United States2 and 100,000 people in Mexico3 go missing annually. With so many people across the world at a high and continuously growing risk, Kidnap and Ransom insurance policies have become more important than ever. Kidnap and…
According to the Pew Research Center, 64 percent of Americans have an online account involving health, financial or other sensitive data.1 As more and more people rely on the internet to do business and manage their personal lives, their information has the potential to become susceptible to a cyberbreach. With this in mind, a new…
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