Aug 14, 2017 | Agreements, business attorney, Contract, Corporation, data security, Employment, Legal fees, LLC, Medium-sized business, Small business
What is an “outside general counsel” and what can one do for your company, besides save you money? Do you wish you could run legal and business issues past your lawyer whenever you need to, without worrying about getting billed for every call or email? Having a...
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...
Jun 12, 2017 | Cybersecurity, data security, hacking, information security, Medium-sized business, Ransomware, Small business
Ransomware is a growing threat: what it is, what it can do, and how to prevent it Click here to see my recent article on ransomware in ColoradoBiz’s online magazine, discussing how companies can protect themselves against the increase in ransomware cyberattacks....
May 31, 2017 | Corporation, Cybersecurity, data security, hacking, information security
Hackers Using Social Media Posts To Steal Data By now nearly everyone has heard about the recent “WannaCry” ransomware attack, which affected thousands of computers in over 100 countries. While this attack came in through a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows operating...
May 8, 2017 | Cybersecurity, data security, hacking, information security, Medium-sized business, Small business
Ransomware Hacking Tactic Ransomware, which can freeze up your company’s entire computer network, has been on the rise in recent years. Ransomware often takes the form of an email that seems legitimate, with an attachment in a format such as MS Word or Excel. If...
Apr 28, 2017 | Agreements, Contract, Cybersecurity, data security, information security, Medium-sized business, Small business
Your vendor contracts and cybersecurity: how to protect yourself In a previous post I talked about how your contracts with vendors and other third parties can increase your cybersecurity risk. A vendor may hold valuable data for you, such as consumer information or...
Apr 19, 2017 | Contract, Cybersecurity, data security, hacking, information security, Medium-sized business, Small business
How your vendor contracts may be putting you at risk for cyberattacks In 2013 the retailer Target suffered a massive data breach, with hackers stealing the credit card information of more than 40 million customers, and the addresses and phone numbers of more than 70...
Apr 10, 2017 | Corporation, Cybersecurity, data security, Employment, hacking, information security
The weakest link: employees, not technology, are the cause of most hacks When most people think of cyberattacks, they think of some hacker sitting in a dark room, probing a company’s network for ways to break in. While that still happens, more and more often...
Mar 30, 2017 | Limiting liability
Small Businesses Need To Protect Themselves from Cyberattacks We’ve all read about recent cyberattacks, in which hackers have broken into computer systems of large companies like Target, Yahoo and JPMorgan Chase, stealing banking, personal and credit card...
