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Cyber for Plan Sponsors 07.17.2019

Cyber Attackers Can Use Your Own Systems to Steal Your Data

It does not take a computer virus or public data mining for a cyber attacker to cause a data breach at your company. They can use your own systems against you to get what they…
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Cyber Attackers Can Use Your Own Systems to Steal Your Data
Cyber for Plan Sponsors 07.17.2019

Cyber Attackers Can Steal from Your Older Files Too

You may think that cyber attackers are only going to go after your current information. However, just as small businesses are targets because they do not protect data as well as large companies, older information…
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Cyber Attackers Can Steal from Your Older Files Too
Cyber for Plan Sponsors 07.16.2019

Data Breach Costs Often Felt 2 or More Years After Hack

Cyber attacks can cause large amounts of sensitive and valuable data to be exposed via hackers. But cyber attack effects do not end as soon as the data is exposed soon after the attack. The…
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Data Breach Costs Often Felt 2 or More Years After Hack
Cyber for Plan Sponsors 07.11.2019

The U.S. has Lost $1.6 Trillion Due to Data Breaches Since 2008

Since 2008, the United States has lost an overall amount of more than $1.6 trillion due to data breaches alone. Even these figures may be on the low end of the real number lost, however, as…
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The U.S. has Lost $1.6 Trillion Due to Data Breaches Since 2008
Cyber for Plan Sponsors 07.09.2019

Best Cyber Defense Practices May Not Stop Data Breaches

You can read guides on how to best protect sensitive data stored by a 401(k) plan related to its participants and funds. Monitoring and securing accounts on a regular schedule can help make sure that only the…
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Best Cyber Defense Practices May Not Stop Data Breaches
Cyber for Plan Sponsors 07.09.2019

Data Breach Sends Equifax Executive to Jail

Former Equifax CIO Jun Ying has been sentenced to four months in prison for insider trading. Ying was found to have sold Equifax stock after the famed data breach was discovered but before the public was aware…
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Data Breach Sends Equifax Executive to Jail
Cyber for Plan Sponsors 07.08.2019

Recovering from a Data Breach Requires the Professionals

Managing and containing a data breach is not something a normal business person knows how to do. Cyber attackers are more sophisticated than ever and are going to stay a step ahead of a layman…
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Recovering from a Data Breach Requires the Professionals
Cyber for Plan Sponsors 07.02.2019

Half of Manufacturers Have Had a Data Breach in the Last Year

Manufacturing is one of the biggest blue collar industries in the United States, but with technology making manufacturing processes more and more efficient and processes having to be expertly and exactly tracked by computer systems…
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Half of Manufacturers Have Had a Data Breach in the Last Year
Cyber for Plan Sponsors 07.02.2019

Over a Third of Cyber Attacks Come From the Inside

You can install all the top of the line, cutting edge cyber defenses you want, but if your attackers are coming from the inside and already have access to your system, how well can you…
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Over a Third of Cyber Attacks Come From the Inside