Proven Methods to Straighten Up Your Security Posture
Is it time to take another look at your security posture? Understanding the resources and strategies available to protect against modern attacks makes IT security less foe and more friend. In terms of strategies, IT audits are always a good place to start. As stressful as a data breach can be, however, an IT security […]
Overcoming Cybersecurity Obstacles Within Your Organization
It’s in the news nearly every week: another company falls victim to a security breach. From Equifax to Marriott to DoorDash, breaches are happening across industries and affecting millions of consumers. Retail, healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing industries are especially vulnerable, but smaller organizations like government municipalities and hospitals are also common targets. As someone with access to your organization’s most sensitive data, you have a responsibility to actively protect your customers and employees. We’ve seen […]
Top 5 Controls for Securing your Environment
Approximately 85% of cyberattacks can be prevented by implementing the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Top 5 Controls framework. The entire CIS Top 20 Controls framework helps organizations combat the most pervasive and dangerous cyberattacks, but the first five can help prevent a high percentage of those. The CIS Top 5 Controls include the following: […]
Cybersecurity Questions All Executives Should Be Asking
Cyber threats constantly evolve with increasing intensity and complexity; and the ability to achieve mission objectives and deliver business functions is becoming more reliant on information systems and the Internet. Organizations will face a host of cyber threats, some with severe impacts that will require security measures that extend beyond compliance. According to a 2019 […]
A Look at Data Safety and Third-Party Technology Risk Management
Please note: CPE is not available for webinars on-demand. CPE is available only for live events. Presented by: Carly Devlin and Stephen Chasser As organizations are increasingly relying on third-parties for various business processes and services, it’s important, from an information security and regulatory perspective, to understand how the organization’s data is being handled by […]
Updates to the Revenue Recognition & Lease Accounting Standards
Now that the year-end and quarter-end closes are behind us, many accounting departments are starting to focus on the recent or upcoming accounting standard changes. For example, public companies addressed the initial revenue recognition updates at the end of fiscal 2017, but private companies are looking at the looming 12/31/18 deadline. Lease accounting standard changes […]
Bitcoin & The Blockchain
Presented by: Ross Patz & Bob Roll Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have made news headlines over the past few years in part due to speculative investment and runaway price valuations. But what is cryptocurrency anyway, and what is the underlying technology known as Blockchain? Join Clark Schaefer Consulting as we provide a fundamental look into each […]
Cybersecurity and Healthcare: Protect Your Patients and Your Organization
By Melissa Meeker Data breaches maintain their reign in the headlines as cyberattacks continue to happen at a disturbingly high frequency. Consumer information has never been more vulnerable, and no industry is immune to the threat of an attack. In an environment where no organization is safe, healthcare providers are especially vulnerable. Fortunately, established regulatory […]
US Healthcare – Understanding the Elephant in the Room
Whether you’re a college student, an unemployed single parent, a business owner, or a physician, healthcare has a role in your life and that role is very likely going to get larger as time passes. The cost of healthcare, given its prominence in both State and Federal budgets really has become the elephant in the […]
The Wild Wild West – How Ransomware is Changing the Face of Cyber Security
Ransomware has been around since 1989 but in 2013 cyber criminals took it pro, and companies all around the world have been feeling and seeing the effects for the last 4 years. The internet has truly become the wild wild west of the 21st century and evil is always out to find new ways to […]