Author Archives: Rick M Robinson

The Growing Threat of Cyber Extortion

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In the shadowy world of security threats and bad actors, cyber extortion is a growing trend. Cybercriminals are taking advantage of the vulnerability of intellectual property, threatening to release potentially embarrassing information and encrypting data to render it useless to the rightful owners, among other sinister practices. Unlike the risks associated with more traditional cybertheft, […]

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The Trump Security Platform: Maintaining the GOP Status Quo

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The Trump security platform views government regulation critically while also assigning high priority to national security regulations.

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Cybercrime-as-a-Service Poses a Growing Challenge

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Cybercrime-as-a-service poses a new security challenge because it allows malicious actors to leverage other cybercriminals’ resources to conduct attacks.

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When E-commerce Security Meets Brick-and-Mortar Retail

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The line between physical storefronts and online retail is blurring, and as a result, e-commerce security is getting more complicated.

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Information Security Trainings: Summer School Edition

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Is it time to send your employees to summer school? As temperatures climb, set up information security trainings to increase their security awareness.

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Cloud Risks Pose the Latest Security Education Challenge

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Employees must be educated to avoid cloud risks and ensure this new era of cloud technology is a secure one for their organizations.

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Being Hackable and the New Security Conundrum

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As applications and their security systems become more complex, more eyes are needed to create and review the process — which in turn makes them hackable.

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Security Tips for Tax Season — and Beyond

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The IRS recently released security tips that individuals and businesses should consider when filing important tax information online.

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