We found Bloomberg BNA’s recent interview with Patrick Fraioli, partner and chairman of the Data Privacy & Security Workgroup at Ervin, Cohen & Jessup LLP, quite insightful. The overarching theme of Mr. Fraioli’s interview is that small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) are feeling the greatest impact from cybercrime. As Sequel has said before, and as […]
Small businesses and law firms are not immune to cyberattacks, which is why regularly evaluating network security and internal processes is critically important. Hackers now have the ability to pull together disparate pieces of information about you using computerized brute force attacks, which are essentially massive computers with pre-programmed algorithms trying every possible logical password. […]
One of the largest potential security holes facing most companies today is employee use of Cloud-based storage services. If your employees are using services like Dropbox and Box even for temporary, intermediate storage of potential trade secrets and other valuable corporate data, they are opening a chasm through which bad actors can retrieve your vital […]
Melise Blakeslee has announced that LexisNexis has agreed to publish her new book, Internet Crimes and Data Security in the Spring. This is Melise’s second published book. It expands greatly on her first title, Internet Crimes, Torts and Scams: Investigation and Remedies, published in previous years by Oxford University Press. “The new book includes a […]