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• Five Cyber Crime Factoids (Reader Discretion Is Advised)

  By slpowers on April 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  No hype needed. Here are the facts. According to a 2016 report from Small Business Trends, 43 percent of cyberattacks target small businesses. These aren’t crimes of opportunity anymore. Smaller businesses usually deploy easier defenses to hack, which transform those… Read More ›

• The Big Risk Cyber Insurance Can’t Cover

  By slpowers on April 7, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s easy to see why cyber insurance has become must-have coverage for millions of American companies.  With the threat landscape changing faster than ever, with regulatory penalties growing real teeth, with court decisions sending mixed messages, carrying robust cyber insurance is more important than… Read More ›

• What yesterday’s Internet privacy vote means to your employees

  By slpowers on March 29, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  The House of Representatives voted 215 to 205 to overturn a yet-to-take-effect regulation that would have required Internet Service Providers to get consumers’ permission before selling their browsing data. Last Friday the Senate voted 50-48 to do the same. Both… Read More ›

• A Crisis is No Time for Improvisation.

  By slpowers on March 27, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  The hours right after a data breach are among the most chaotic any business will encounter. You don’t want to spend them trying to improvise an intelligent, effective, and compliant response plan. According to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report,… Read More ›

• The Real Cost of a Data Breach

  By slpowers on March 15, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  There is no shortage of talk about new cyber threats and their impact on the regulatory landscape, but what are their real implications? We’ve broken them down into three categories: “Penalties With Teeth” for our HIPAA readers, “Do I Feel… Read More ›

• SLPowers Recognized as CRN MSP Elite 150 for Excellence in Managed IT Services

  By slpowers on March 7, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, March 7, 2017 – SLPowers announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named SLPowers to its 2017 Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in the Elite 150 category. This annual list recognizes… Read More ›

• Management Tools Make Firewalls More Effective

  By slpowers on March 1, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Use of firewall management tools has resulted in fewer breaches, faster response time, and increased productivity, according to a report commissioned by U.S.-based FireMon. The study, entitled Automate Zero Trust Policy and Enforcement, drives home the benefits of using a firewall… Read More ›