For a relatively long time, small-to-medium size businesses (SMBs) flew under the radar of nefarious hackers and other cybercriminals. Unfortunately, that time is forever gone. According to a study from the Ponemon Institute, roughly two-thirds of SMBs around the world are now experiencing cyber-attacks, and the situation is getting alarmingly worse in certain regions.
The world as we know it has been disrupted by a virus called SARS-CoV-2 and the infectious disease caused by it (COVID-19). Since the beginning of this year, millions of people across most countries have been infected by it despite nation-wide lockdowns and other drastic measures.
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The world is slowing down during this COVID-19 pandemic. Wall Street is being hit hard. People are no longer going out. We’re told to quarantine or self-isolate and not engage in groups.
You can bet there’s one group that’s not slowing down at all.
Many individuals and business leaders are worried about Coronavirus and its potential impact to their lives and businesses. As the situation evolves, we’re offering some considerations to help think through how to prepare for potential business disruption while maintaining a level of productivity in your business operations.
Starting January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), far and away the broadest consumer data privacy law passed by any State to date, goes into effect.
What is the CCPA?
CCPA grants California “consumers” extensive rights as to how their personal information is collected, stored, and used, as well as gives them a private cause of action against businesses who violate its requirements.
1. Search for specific phrases within quotation marks (“”). This way, Google will only return results with your exact phrase in them.
2. Remove certain terms or phrases with a dash/minus (-). This will remove these words from your search.
No AI Just Yet – There’s a lot of talk that artificial intelligence is going to take over customer service. While AI support exists, it still cannot match the power of human interaction.
Personalized Customer Service – Coming off that first trend, people don’t want to be treated as numbers.
What is the Dark Web? The dark web refers to encrypted online content that is not indexed by conventional search engines. Also known as the "darknet," the dark web is a component of the deep web that describes the wider breadth of content that does not appear through regular internet browsing activities.
1. Cyber-Thieves Keep A-Knockin’ But They Can’t Come In. A study presented at the International Conference on Dependable Systems and
Networks showed that small-business networks are attacked every 39
seconds by some type of hacker or malicious software.