How Much Should Law Firms Spend on IT Security?
If you came across an article we recently posted about the top cybersecurity threats to law firms, you may have seen some rather disconcerting results from a 2013 ILTA survey. Take a look:
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How Much Should Associations Spend on IT Security (Trade/Professional)?
Here’s an unsettling statistic for you: according to The Ponemon Institute’s 2014 Global Report on the Cost of Cybercrime, 2014 cybercrime incidences increased by 10.4% over 2013 numbers. Another from IBM: after a breach, an organization loses, on average, 29% of market mindshare due to reputation and brand damage, 21%
How to Choose the Right EMR System for Home Health Care
For the home health care industry in particular, properly and intelligently managing your clients, caregivers, and medical records is absolutely critical to the success of your mission and the quality of the care you’re providing. This, by extension, means that the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system you select to perform
What are the Top Cybersecurity Threats to Nonprofits?
Reputation is everything to a nonprofit organization—and a data breach can destroy a reputation in one fell swoop. That’s why, time and again, our lengthy list of nonprofit clients asks us what they should be doing to better protect themselves—and what, exactly, they should be protecting themselves against. These are
How Much Does Hiring a CIO Cost for Associations? (Trade/Professional)
Where C-level executives are concerned, “CIO” is one of the newcomers in the game; not many associations were concerned about aligning their overall strategy with their technology resources back in the seventies. But as organizations become more and more dependent upon their technology, as data security and integrity becomes more
How Much Should Small Businesses Spend on IT Security?
A not-so-fun fact for you: 40% of cyber-attacks are against organizations with fewer than 500 employees. And, according to the National Cyber Security Alliance, one in five small businesses falls victim to cybercrime each year. Of those, about 60% go out of business within six months after an attack. In