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alexander.klomp
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2 years ago

What steps have you and your team taken to address cybersecurity risk?

Recent CoreData research suggests advice practices could lose at least 13% of business in the aftermath of a cybersecurity incident. In light of this alarming figure, I want to know what steps have y...
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deborah.kent
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2 years ago

alexander.klomp Back in 2020 we engaged an IT consultant to review our entire practice for security, this was especially important during Covid working remotely which we now do full time.  He put in place a number of security systems such as ESET, bitlocker and 2FA on most of our systems, he also does regular training with staff and reports on issues that happen in Cyber Crime so we are aware of issues that can happen, just last week he emailed us about a client that had the 2FA hacked !! he is super conservative and has protected us from making decisions on software that potentially could be an issue.  We just dont know this stuff so having an expert there on call is great and I recommend every practice should have one

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