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Who’s Watching Your Stuff: A Watch Out Wednesday Update
You take $86,000 here, and $86,000 there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money. A recent survey revealed a single cyber-security incident now costs the average American small or medium business $86,500. For Enterprises, the number is nearly ten times… Read More ›
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Why a SOC 2 Certification Really Matters
What’s more important to your enjoyment of a good restaurant: A chef who understands how to bring out the subtle characteristics of her ingredients and who combines them in creative and exciting ways, or a chef who graduated from the… Read More ›
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Two-Factor Authentication: A Watch Out Wednesdays Backgrounder
Security gurus have long recommended the use of two-factor authentication as a key method of improving the security of your organization’s most critical information. But more than 40 percent of companies continue to run single-authentication environments, in which employees attain… Read More ›
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Greater Ft Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce Appoints Gordon Merle to Board of Directors
WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, April 26, 2017— The Board of Directors of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce has announced the appointment of Gordon Merle, Senior Account Executive at SLPowers, to their Board of Directors. The Board members represent… Read More ›
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Five Cyber Crime Factoids (Reader Discretion Is Advised)
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 ›
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The Big Risk Cyber Insurance Can’t Cover
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 ›
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What yesterday’s Internet privacy vote means to your employees
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 ›
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A Crisis is No Time for Improvisation.
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 ›
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The Real Cost of a Data Breach
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 ›
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SLPowers Recognized as CRN MSP Elite 150 for Excellence in Managed IT Services
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 ›
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The Seven Stages of Cybersecurity Grief
July 12, 2017
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The Greatest Threat To Cybersecurity
July 5, 2017
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Ransomware: Here we go again. And again.
June 28, 2017
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Ransomware Stakes Keep Growing
June 21, 2017
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True Security Goes Beyond HIPAA Compliance
June 14, 2017
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Security Certification Really Matters — For Us AND For You.
June 7, 2017