There is a question that comes up in almost every conversation we have with agency owners who are thinking seriously about cybersecurity. “Is what I have enough?” Not “what do I have?” They usually have a sense of that. The question is whether they have met the bar. I have found the honest answer, in most cases, is that
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Your Insurance License Comes With a Responsibility Outside Insurance What you are legally obligated to protect and what happens when something goes wrong. When you earned your insurance license, the curriculum covered products, markets, and regulations. Nobody explained that collecting client information in the course of normal business creates a legal data protection obligation. Several
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This Is the Attack That Read Your Emails for Six Weeks Before Anyone Knew Business email compromise does not break in. It gets comfortable and waits, and insurance agencies are exactly the kind of business it waits inside. Six weeks ago, an attacker got access to a mailbox at an insurance agency. Not a large
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The One Security Tool You Should Never Work Remote Without Working from anywhere? You need this to stay protected. For insurance agencies handling client data outside the office, a VPN is no longer optional. Here is why. Today, working from home, in hotels, a cafe, and having remote employees is normal. We answer emails from
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