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A server hums in the back office closet. Nobody remembers exactly what it does anymore, but the last time someone tried to turn it off, three people lost access to a shared drive. So it stays on, drawing power, aging past its warranty, waiting for...
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Most accounting firms already pay for Microsoft 365. Far fewer have turned on the parts of it built to stop the exact threats they face every tax...
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Many businesses think a downloaded template satisfies the FTC Safeguards Rule. It doesn't. Swapping in a company name and filing the document away in...
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A partner at a mid-size CPA firm pulls up a Written Information Security Program during a client due-diligence review, or worse, during an FTC...
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Disclaimer: This post is not legal, tax, or compliance advice. Regulatory questions should go to your attorney and compliance consultant. Some of the...
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Small business owners tend to treat a firewall as the finish line for cybersecurity. Install it, point it at the network, and move on to the actual...
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Most small business owners don't think about their network until it goes down. Then, in the middle of a Tuesday afternoon with customers waiting and...
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Accounting firms hold a strange position in the threat landscape. They don't process credit cards like a retailer or store medical charts like a...
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TL;DR: Small businesses are involved in nearly half of all breach incidents, and most of them had antivirus software when it happened. The tools that...
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Small business owners hear a lot of noise about cybersecurity, most of it either too technical to act on or too vague to matter. A risk assessment...
