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5 Most Common Errors & Omissions Claims for Technology Firms
As a small-business owner in the technology sector, you've got more tasks than available time, so it’s easy to put off non-essential tasks like staying abreast of the latest trends in Errors &...
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How to Protect Your Tech Firm’s Intellectual Property Online
Chances are, your business has some kind of online presence, whether that includes a website, a social media page or two, an email system, or all of the above. With a digital presence comes exposure to...
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Get Your Gadgets Ready for Summer
If you’re like most owners of IT and tech businesses, there’s a good chance that you or your employees rely on mobile gadgets for certain work-related activities, whether those include sending emails...
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Use a Coworking Space? Make Sure You Know the Risks
In recent years, coworking – the practice of freelancers and small-business owners working in communal spaces designed for that purpose – has risen precipitously in popularity. A survey of independent...
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10 things you can do to protect your tech business against cyber attacks
Your website goes down. Is it your web host? Has it been hacked? Is it being attacked? Is my customer data safe? These are just a few questions that you need to ask yourself when your business has...
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Third-Party Vs. First-Party Cyber Risk Insurance: Protect Your IT Firm Right
As you put together a risk management plan for your IT or technology business, you’ll no doubt find that Cyber Risk Insurance (also known as Cyber Liability Insurance and Data Breach Insurance) is an...
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8 Reasons Web Design / Graphic Design Professionals Should Have Insurance
As a Web design or graphic designers, you publish high quality designs on a schedule and budget to keep your clients happy - Word of mouth goes a long way, especially in website design. Sometimes the...
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Free Mobile Charging Stations: Data Breach Central?
This week, AT&T announced plans to set up free, solar-powered charging stations around the five boroughs of New York City. The project, apparently inspired by services AT&T offered following...
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How Cyber Risk Insurance Can Save Your Business – Or Sink It
Major data security breaches can be disastrous for companies of all sizes. For smaller tech companies in particular, a significant breach can become a catastrophe that permanently dooms the business....
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What Cloud Computing Means for Cyber Liability
What was once floating above our heads is reachable – well, sort of…. Cloud computing has boomed over the past few years and is only continuing to grow. It saves individual companies storage space and...
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Data Security in the Cloud: Concerns for IT Firms with Legal Clients
If your IT firm counts any lawyers or law firms among its clients, you probably already know that the data security rules are stricter in legal fields. But exactly how strict are those rules? And what...
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Tinder Security Breach Highlights E&O Exposure for IT Contractors
Have you heard of Tinder? It’s a date-finding app for young professionals (many have observed that it brings the capabilities of Grinder to a wider market). Tinder takes a new spin on the idea that...
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Errors & Omissions Insurance: Protect Your Hardest-to-Manage Reputational...
A study recently conducted by insurance company ACE European Group found that more than four-fifths of businesses interviewed (81 percent) cited reputational risks as their most difficult to manage....
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Why Even the Savviest Geeks Aren’t Immune to Hacking
As an IT contractor or business owner, you’re probably used to knowing a lot more about technology than most people in your life. After all, that’s why you’re able to make a living: most of your...
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Samurai Tech Firms Self-Destruct to Protect Client Information
Late last week, the New York Times reported that two small email providers that offered encrypted communications options to their clients chose to shut down and destroy their servers rather than...
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A Security Flaw in Google Chrome Can Expose All Your Clients' Passwords:...
This week, there was a lot of buzz over the news that simply by typing in a certain address into your Google Chrome browser, a user could see all their stored passwords. Here’s a review of the story,...
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$1.2 Million HITECH Fine Highlights Risks for IT Contractors Working with...
HealthcareITNews.com reports that Affinity Health Plan, a New York-based managed care provider, faces a Health and Human Services (HHS) fine of more than $1.2 million connected to a breach of patient...
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Data Security Remains Top Concern about Cloud Computing Options
“Cloud Computing: Key Trends and Future Effects,” a study recently published by IDG Enterprise, highlights that, though cloud hosting and computing programs (including IaaS and SaaS) are growing in...
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Build a Better Acceptable Use Policy: 3 Key Elements
Any organization that offers members access to the Internet or an intranet (including universities, schools, government entities, and businesses) needs an acceptable use policy (AUP) to outline the...
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HITECH: The Strictest Data Protection Law
In the age of big data, data protection laws are among the most important pieces of regulation for IT companies and independent consultants who work in technology fields. This month marks a major...
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