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Shannon Lane / October 11, 2023
Why Don’t Organizations Start with Compliance? At its core, business is a function of time, vision, service, and money. What do we provide? How do we intend to provide it? What takes precedence - the opportunity now or the infrastructure to support things tomorrow? How do we do what we do in a way that makes sense with the resources we have? I’ve found that compliance tends to be one…
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Sarah Harvey / December 20, 2022
Is your small business considering migrating to the cloud? Has your large business seen more and more competition from small businesses? Cloud computing is essential for businesses of all sizes, but small businesses have seen an endless amount of benefits from cloud computing, including financial, operational, and security benefits. Let’s discuss how each of these items related to cloud computing is changing small business. Affordable Investment There’s been an enormous…
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Mark Hinely / October 11, 2023
The most frequently asked question I’ve received related to GDPR compliance has to do with data processing roles: is my organization a data controller or data processor? Determining your organization’s data role can be challenging because of textual and practical ambiguity, but identifying your role is the starting point for determining which GDPR requirements your organization must follow. The responsibilities of data controllers are different than responsibilities of data processors.…
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Sarah Harvey / December 20, 2022
What Happened in Atlanta? On March 22, the City of Atlanta suffered from an incredibly damaging ransomware attack from SamSam. Multiple types of applications, including internal and customer-facing applications that allow bill payment and access court-related documents, were compromised. For over a week, a cross-functional incident response team made up of the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, Microsoft, Cisco Security, and Dell SecureWorks have been working to find a resolution. In…
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Sarah Harvey / April 12, 2023
Advancements in cloud technology have completely changed the way organizations use, store, process, and share data, applications, and software. Cloud environments tend to be more cost-efficient and time-efficient…so why wouldn’t you put your data in the cloud? Because so many organizations are putting so much sensitive data into cloud environments, they have inevitably become targets for malicious attackers. New security vulnerabilities are consistently being discovered and, in a vicious cycle,…
