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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

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Michelle Drolet featured in WBJ: Building Walls and Breaking Barriers

Towerwall , cannabis security , Michelle Drolet , Worcester Business Journal , cannabis compliance , Phishing , GDPR , PCI , malware , ransomware , HIPAA , Compliance & Privacy , penetration testing , Compliance , 2016 Outstanding Women in Business , cannabis , Enterprise

Michelle Drolet

Michelle Drolet, CEO of Towerwall in Framingham, is an innovative thinker. Never one to shy away from looking at new factors that come into a situation with an open perspective, she has a few things she's learned about good management and good leadership along the way. First, she delegates more. "When I first started, it was all about internal, and we had to do it all. As I've gotten older, I'm able to hand things over and say, 'We can't do that well, but I know they can do that well,'" Droletfalse

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How Much Does a Data Breach Actually Cost?

Yahoo , Sony , NetworkWorld , Phishing , malware , ransomware , Target , Compliance & Privacy , penetration testing , cannabis , Enterprise , Data Breach

Michelle Drolet

The average cost of a data breach involving fewer than 10,000 records was $5 million The American public has become so inured to data breaches that it’s difficult to remember them all. Infamous breaches like the ones at Target and Sony become almost forgettable when confronted with the recently disclosed half-billion accounts compromised at Yahoo in 2014.

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Join us for our inaugural InfoSec at Your Services Meetup - Wednesday, October 19, 2016

SPAM , InfoSec at Your Services Meetup , InfoSec at Your Services , Phishing , malware , Events , meetup , cannabis , Enterprise

Michelle Drolet

Join us for our inaugural InfoSec at Your Services Meetup!

Upcoming Complimentary Partner Webinars

Varonis , Sophos , Webinar , Phishing , ransomware , penetration testing , Compliance , SnoopWall , cannabis , Enterprise

Michelle Drolet

Check out one of the upcoming complimentary partner webinars:

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Towerwall's Blog named to the Best Computer Security Blogs 2016 by CreditDonkey

TrendMicro , Vormetric , Phishing , Top Computer Security Blogs 2016 , GDPR , ransomware , Compliance & Privacy , penetration testing , Compliance , Imperva , Qualys , CreditDonkey , cannabis , Fortinet , Enterprise

Michelle Drolet

We are honored to share that our blog was named as a Top Computer Security Blogs 2016 by CreditDonkey. CreditDonkey sites:

Information Security Summit 2016 Raises $5,000 for MassBay Cyber Security Scholarships

Varonis , Sophos , ISACA , TCG , MassBay Community College , Michelle Drolet , Mary Shia , CDW , AlienVault , Dr. David Podell , Phishing , PhishMe , GDPR , RSA , Interwork , malware , ransomware , CyberSN , Information Security Summit , HIPAA , Compliance & Privacy , Michael Lyons , penetration testing , Compliance , SnoopWall , FTG , Veeam , ISSA , Information Security Summit Scholarship , Infraguard

Michelle Drolet

WELLESLEY HILLS, MA (August 2016) – Massachusetts Bay Community College is pleased to announce it has received a generous donation of $5,000 from this year’s annual Information Security Summit to support student scholarships in the field of cyber security. The Information Security Summit, held each year on MassBay Community College’s Wellesley Hills campus, was established in 2013 to help professionals advance their programs and knowledge base on the latest network security and technologyfalse

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5 InfoSec concerns for colleges and universities

device management , database systems , Phishing , phishing attacks , malware , cybercriminals

Michelle Drolet

Higher education institutions are a prime target for cybercriminals, and IT needs resources to prevent attacks and provide a proper level of security No industry or sector is immune to data breaches, but some are targeted more often than others. Education came ahead of government, retail and financial sectors, and it was second only to healthcare on Trend Micro’s list of the most-breached industries. With more than 500 security breaches across 320 higher education institutions since 2005,false

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Join Towerwall at these Upcoming InfoSec Events

ISACA , Conference , Information Security Summit 2016 , Boston , Social Engineering , Phishing , Information Security , Security BSides Boston 2016 , malware , Information Security Summit , Events , Compliance , Massachusetts , cannabis , Enterprise

Michelle Drolet

We will be attending, sponsoring and hosting the following InfoSec events this Spring / Summer. Join us!

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10 Things I Know About... Ransomware Protection

passwords , Phishing , Whitelist , ransomware , Ransomware Protection , Patch , 10 Things I Know , cannabis , Enterprise

Michelle Drolet

10. Backup files every night. If you can access yesterday's files, then there is no need to pay to unlock them today.

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