If you are an independent contractor and/or a small business having an insurance policy is a must and offers you protection and peace of mind. Here are some quick tips on how to get started and safely covered as a Cybersecurity, IT and/or Technology professional.
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Each year, Mental Health Awareness Week offers organisations of all shapes and sizes an opportunity to reflect on the mental health support within their organisation, and do their best to improve upon it.
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The name WannaCry still invokes memories of chaos and disaster amongst anyone in the technology world. The anniversary of this widespread attack in May each year has been named Anti-Ransomware Day, to encourage organisations to back up their data and adopt necessary security protections.
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From our Cyber Insurance Issue: In today’s interconnected digital world, there is no such thing as an “unconnected” business. That means for most that the extent of their online exposure will include running a calculated risk of becoming the victim of a cyber-attack because that event risk can never be zero. Or does i
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Cyber Protection Magazine posted a long article about Google’s decision to start de-listing California-based newspapers. We strove to be as objective as possible and present both sides of the argument, but we did say that the opponents were missing the point, hoping that the point would be obvious in the discussion. Here, however, we want to shed objectivity and make the point clear.
Google’s move, generously described, is a preemptive response to California’s Journalism Preservation Act (AB 886) that has yet to pass the Senate. The act will require Google to sit down and negotiate with California publishers over the fair price of publishing content from those media sites.
Note that the bill is not mandating a price. It is mandating a negotiation. That changes the nature of the discussion.
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Company is a ‘paid informant’ Threads, Meta’s new microblogging platform, could be considered a clear and present danger to womenmore
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Cybersecurity and data privacy are two parts of a whole discipline, but they are not the same thing.…
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The wave of DDoS attacks that flood the Internet daily made everyone aware of the relevance of tDDoS attacks. The question is how to properly protect yourself and what mistakes to avoid.
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When Computer Security Day was started in 1988, few could have imagined just how vital cybersecurity would become.
Cyber Protection Magazine spoke to nine industry experts, to learn about the most important cybersecurity practices.
The recent US national security community memorandum on Cross-Sector Cybersecurity Performance Goals (CPG) addresses risks to the nation and individual entities. This is a starting point to ensure organizations are all starting on the same footing. CISA spells this out on the same page when they describe what the CPGs are.
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