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Reality…no company can prevent a breach
Reality...no company can prevent a breach! Earlier this month I was a guest speaker at the 2021 Nebraska Credit Union League Annual Meeting & Convention. One of my talking points was about the reality of data breaches and how the final story for most data breach...
COMPLACENCY MAKES HACKERS SUCCESSFUL
The danger of complacency makes hackers successful at phishing and ransomware. The recent Colonial Pipeline cyberattack forced Colonial to shut down the pipeline. The shutdown created widespread fuel shortages in 11 states and Washington, D.C. All pointing to the...
What is a Credit Score?
Most of you have heard of it, but what is a credit score? The most widely used scoring model in the United States and Canada is the FICO credit score. Developed in 1956 by a company called Fair, Isaac & Company (FICO), this model is designed to determine how...
Businesses Struggle with Rising Cases of Identity Theft
Each year your businesses struggle with rising cases of identity theft and it's affecting everything. ID Theft can be detrimental to your employees, productivity, your reputation, revenue, and profit. You take all the necessary measures to secure your systems and...
Synthetic ID Theft & Fraud to get WORSE
In August 2014, I wrote an article for the Arizona Republic titled Synthetic Identity Fraud Emerges As Growing Threat. In the article, I pointed to the fact that synthetic ID Theft & Fraud is getting worse. Stating that “synthetic identity theft and fraud often...
Cyber Threat Landscape Will Get Worse Part 2…
Last November I wrote an article titled The Cyber Threat Landscape Will Get Worse Before It Gets Better. I wrote that article based on how information security and governance experts were alarmed at a “broken cyber market” and how cybersecurity professionals believed...