Five Tech Issues New CEOs Should Focus on First When a new association CEO starts the job, the responsibilities and pressures of the role can feel exciting and overwhelming at the same time. Talk to any new CEO, and they’ll tell you that the first day on the job and
As originally published in Associations Now, May 14, 2019. Top 10 Security Tips Every Association Executive Needs to Know You need not be a security expert to bolster your association’s security posture. In fact, the single most effective way to keep your data secure isn’t any sophisticated technical defense
According to the ESG Research Review Data Protection Survey from Enterprise Strategy Group, 53% of organizations can tolerate less than an hour of downtime before experiencing significant revenue loss or other adverse business impact. Of those that experience a significant business interruption, 30 percent never recover. This is especially alarming data
No matter how advanced technology gets, the unfortunate fact of the matter is that it won’t last forever. Your staff’s machines will begin to show signs of slowness after about 3 years. After 5, you’ll be lucky if they’re running anywhere close to full capacity. Your servers will start generating
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%
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
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