Robin Bond

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Utility Dive •

This is not a dress rehearsal: What critical infrastructure owners and operators can do right now to defend against nation-state threats

Grid modernization has created a complex ecosystem of network-connected equipment, exposing utilities to a wide range of potential threats from nation-states, criminals, disgruntled employees, and accidental misconfiguration. The energy sector is particularly vulnerable to cyberattack because core cybersecurity strategies—like the use of SPAN ports to direct bulk network data to security analysis systems and physical air gaps to separate the Operational Technologies (OT) network from the rest o
SecureLink •

Top 3 Threats Posed by Third-Party Vendors

It’s pretty common knowledge that many companies outsource some, if not all, of their critical IT to vendors. While outsourcing to vendors or third parties does increase efficiency, it also opens companies up to a world of risk that isn’t always accounted for. To combat these unaccounted for risks, we want to educate people and raise awareness. Below we have listed the top three threats posed by third-party vendors to help you mitigate and prevent these risks. Even organizations with the most r

Planning Ahead: Incident Readiness vs. Business Continuity

Is your organization prepared? Cyberattacks on small and medium businesses (SMBs) are becoming more impactful and frequent thanks to bad actors around the globe, and that’s not all. Business interrupting data incidents are rising via insider attacks, corporate espionage, volatile weather events, and more. From costly downtime to business shutdown, SMBs pay the price for unchecked incidents in the form of dollars, lost market share, damaged reputation, or worse, complete loss of business. From m
ACHDA Digital Media Generation •

TikTok Is 'Restored' For Americans After Donald Trump 'Provided Clarity'

The TikTok ban lasted less than 24 hours for Americans, thanks to President-elect Donald Trump, who will be sworn into office Monday. In a statement shared on X, formerly Twitter, TikTok said Sunday that they were “in the process of restoring service” to app users. “In agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process of restoring service,” TikTok said in a post on X. “We thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they...
Flexential •

Every Season is Hurricane Season When it Comes to Protecting Your Data: The Top 3 Causes of Data Loss in Business

Hurricane season in the U.S. reminds organizations of all shapes and sizes to review – and test – their IT disaster recovery (DR) plans, from securing temporary office space on higher ground to protecting their most precious commodity, their data. The bad news? The greatest threats to your company’s business continuity – including your data – aren’t isolated to July through November. Critical infrastructure can go down any time of year, for reasons ranging from power outages and network failure
MojoDesk •

How to Safely Bring Employees Back to the Open Office

How to Safely Bring Employees Back to the Open Office with MojoDome It’s time to resurrect a healthy, productive open workspace in mid-pandemic America. Unfortunately, the open workspace design poses more challenges than ever, in our mid-pandemic environment. Long before anyone ever heard the term “COVID-19,” the open-space trend backfired. By the first quarter of 2020, before the pandemic's economic fallout, a full 70 percent of all office spaces were open design. While open office spaces wer
MojoDesk •

Why Some Businesses Will Still Share an Open Workspace (VIDEO)

Why Some Businesses Will Still Share an Open Workspace (VIDEO) Remember the movie The Social Network in which young upstart Mark Zuckerberg builds his business by setting up company headquarters in his house? He literally lived and worked, round-the-clock, with the smart guys who helped build the beast know as Facebook. In today’s golden age of COVID, Zuckerberg proudly touts his liberal work-from-home policy, but consider this: Would remote work have gotten the company off the ground in the fi
JumpCloud •

Why Aren't More SMEs Using Multi-Factor Authentication?

Cyberattacks against companies large and small are on the rise as hackers engineer new ways to access and steal data. From ransomware to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), two facts are particularly concerning: • Leveraged credentials, most often passwords, cause sixty-one percent of data breaches. • Nearly half of all cyber-attacks target small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who are less equipped to recover from damages. Because SMEs inherently lack the cybersecurity resources of large
Paramount WorkPlace •

5 Emerging Procurement Trends That Are Here to Stay

5 Emerging Procurement Trends That Are Here to Stay The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc across trade, education, government, healthcare, and more. And within almost every industry, the procurement department was left to solve unsolvable problems. Long-standing systems for balancing supply and demand fell apart, most visibly in the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) that frontline healthcare workers needed to protect themselves and others during the crisis. In non-healthcare fields, ma
Flexential •

Dodging Data Disaster in 3 Steps: A Cautionary Tale

When transportation company A&R Logistics began experiencing unexplainable, catastrophic power problems in its Chicago-area data center, the stakes were high. With a nationwide fleet of 800 trucks, 1,200 trailers, 23 terminals and ten warehousing facilities, A&R, a leading provider of dry bulk transportation, has 750 drivers on the road at any given time, from coast to coast. If drivers don’t know which products to deliver, and where and when to deliver them, global petrochemical companies (A&R’
ACHDA Digital Media Generation •

Why You Should Avoid Foods Containing Banned Red Dye No. 3

It could take two years for foods to remove Red Dye No. 3 under the new FDA ban. Here’s what you need to know in the meantime to stay safe. On January 15, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned the red food dye known as Red No. 3, and that has consumers scrambling to understand which products to toss or remove from their grocery lists altogether. The substance was banned from use in food, drinks, and oral drugs based on studies from 2022 showing it caused cancer in lab rats when ingest...

What is the CFPB anyway?

Recent headlines about the leadership chaos at the Consumer Financial Protection Board (CFPB) may have some consumers wondering exactly what the CFPB does and, more importantly, why they should care. The CFPB was created in 2010 under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. It brings under one roof the protection of consumers in financial markets including credit cards, mortgages and bank accounts. Why was it created? Prior to the passage of Dodd-Frank, seven disparate
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