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5 questions to ask your CEO about cybersecurity

CEO , NIST , Cybersecurity Framework , GDPR , Chief Security Officer , Compliance & Privacy , penetration testing , Compliance , cannabis , Enterprise

Michelle Drolet

Why you need to go beyond compliance. Businesses will continue to face a ton of cyber threats, some of which will impact organizations severely enough to require security measures that will reach far beyond compliance. A Ponemon Institute study showed that the average compromised record cost approximately $194 per record. Loss of business due to cyber breaches were estimated to be approximately $3 million. As you can see, it's important to make sure that the risk of cyber breaches is takenfalse

7 Steps to Proactive Security

CEO , CFO , BYOD , CIO , Phishing , GDPR , malware , ransomware , Encryption , Breach Prevention , continuous data protection (CDP) , SnoopWall , Ponemon Institute Data Breach , cannabis , Enterprise

Michelle Drolet

The key to securing against this threat lies in a common metaphor—if a ship has a hole, it is better to patch the breach than bail the water Data breaches are increasingly becoming an expensive problem for more and more companies. According to the most recent Ponemon Institute Data Breach report, insecure data cost companies an average of $221 per compromised record in 2016, an increase of 7 percent from the previous year and an all-time high. The key to securing against this threat lies in afalse