Cryptocurrencies were all the rage earlier this year, with the prices of several coins surging to record highs and crypto exchange Coinbase making its public offering. Crypto enthusiast and Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted rocket and moon emoji, boosting the rallying cry “to the moon!” And investors big and small jumped into the market…
Many smaller businesses, especially startups with limited budgets, tend to treat information security as an afterthought, a bell-and-whistle to be added later when funds allow. This attitude may have been justified 20 or 30 years ago, but the modern landscape of cybercrime, data security, and privacy is making that impossible now…
Even if your business is not online, your online reputation still exists and must be managed.
In my role as an advisor to small businesses, I still find that many of you still claim to have a negligible online presence, and don’t feel it necessary to monitor your reputation there…
Leaks of customer data, corrupt practices by foreign agents, IT breaches. These are just some of the biggest risks that companies face with their third-party relationships. Despite the known dangers, few get it right when it comes to budgeting for their defense strategies.
That’s particularly true of mid-sized firms whose...
Most consumers think of a data breach as something small—the password they used when they signed up for that now non-existent pet website 10 years ago has been discovered by hackers. They get a weird email asking them to click, and by now, after years of Nigerian Prince emails, they know it’s probably...
In the last ten years or so, a new asset class has swept the globe—digital assets and cryptocurrency. It began with Bitcoin in 2009 and has since expanded into thousands of different cryptocurrencies.
Bitcoin, the first and largest cryptocurrency by market cap, is widely considered the gold standard of the asset class. Over time…
Have you just launched your online business after months of hard work setting it up? Congratulations, you have already taken the first step to becoming an entrepreneur, and you have already got further than the majority of people who dream of owning a business. Did you know? 62% of Americans want to make their dream of owning a business…