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Law Firm Data Breaches: One-Quarter of Large Law Firms Have Lost Data

By Dick Weisinger

As a whole, data security at law firms has an overall better record than other businesses, but lawyers still haven’t been immune to experiencing a data breaches and security issues.  Only 14 percent of law firms reported to a survey by

Federal Cloud Computing: Mixed Reviews on CloudFirst Progress – Security Concerns are a Road Block

By Dick Weisinger

Last year the US Federal government spent nearly $2 billion on cloud computing according to IDC.  The Federal government is attempting to implement a CloudFirst policy which it says that “our responsibility in government is to achieve the significant cost, agility and innovation

Security: Alternatives to Passwords to Become More Common

By Dick Weisinger

The most commonly used passwords used to secure internet accounts include ‘123456’, ‘password’, ‘12345’, ‘12345678’, and ‘qwerty’, according to a survey by Cyber Streetwise.  An added problem is that many people use the same password for multiple accounts.  It’s no

CyberSecurity: Top-One-Percent Most Active Users Responsible for Most Security Risks

By Dick Weisinger

Users are your biggest threat to cybersecurity.  A recent study by CloudLock found that key users often dominate application and data storage usage, and that it makes sense to focus on training the power users on security and best-practices.  CloudLock refers to these most active

Security: Only a Quarter of Businesses Are Able To Identify a Data Breach

By Dick Weisinger

Only one quarter of businesses in the UK recently said that they’d be able to identify a data breach of their computer systems according to a recent survey  by the Ponemon Institute, sponsored by Informatica.  Although half of organizations say