Jun 5, 2018 | Corporation, Cybersecurity, data security, hacking, information security
New Colorado requirements in event of data breach New laws protecting consumers in the event of a data breach take effect September 1 in Colorado. The law expands notification requirements in the event of a breach and also adds new requirements for organizations and...
Nov 1, 2017 | Cybersecurity, data security, hacking, information security, Ransomware
Denver Art Museum suffers data breach affecting information of 800 people As I’ve written in previous blog posts, size doesn’t matter when it comes to the risk of a data breach. Nor does it matter whether the organization breached is a business or a...
Oct 2, 2017 | Cybersecurity, data security, hacking, information security, Medium-sized business, Ransomware, Small business
Small and mid-sized businesses worried after recent Equifax data breach By now, almost everyone has heard or read about the recent data breach of Equifax, one of the three large credit reporting companies in the U.S. According to Equifax, as many as 143 million...
Aug 29, 2017 | accounting firms, Cybersecurity, data security, hacking, information security
Federal Trade Commission settles with tax preparation company over violations of privacy and security requirements that apply to all tax preparers I have written in previous posts that the Gramm-Leach-Bliley statute, which many believe only applies to “financial...
Aug 8, 2017 | Corporation, Cybersecurity, data security, hacking, information security, Medium-sized business, Small business
Denver Bar Association’s magazine The Docket: article on cybersecurity Please check out my article on cybersecurity in the August/September issue of The Docket, the Denver Bar Association’s magazine. Click here for the link. Please feel free to contact...
Jul 24, 2017 | accounting firms, Cybersecurity, data security, hacking, information security, Small business
Accounting firms must take steps to protect client data Accountants and accounting firms are at increasing risk of cyberattacks. Just earlier this year, two small accounting firms in Massachusetts reported being hacked, resulting in the theft of more than 6,000...
