What Every CEO Should Understand About Security

Every CEO Should Define and Manage Risks This whitepaper presents a top-level review of key aspects of cyber resilience for every CEO: information-sharing, planning, skill and the economics of cyber security. We offer a number of recommendations for the private and public sector, urging both to engage in discussion of corporate responsibility and balanced policy…

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Dorkbot Botnet Disrupted

The above image is a heat map representing Dorkbot machine detection for the past three months globally. (source: MMPC)   Global Operation Takes Down Dorkbot This post summarizes the significant cross-organizational efforts required to disrupt just one family of malware out there. What is Dorkbot? Win32/Dorkbot is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) botnet. The worm…

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‘Tis the Season for Consumer Scams

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10 Tips to Protect Your Assets This Holiday Season   With Black Friday and Cyber Monday fast approaching the FBI and the Better Business Bureau released an annual warning to shoppers highlighting some of the consumer scams and threat scenarios shoppers may encounter. We’ve reviewed these and other lists, done the research, and put together…

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Setting the Standard in Compliance

A Case Study Highlighting Compliance Excellence Ingram Micro recently featured Cooperative Systems among the top 50 in 2015 on their SMB 500, an annual list recognizing and ranking the top 500 fastest growing Ingram Micro SMB channel partners in the U.S.  In conjunction with this achievement, Cooperative Systems has been setting the compliance standard. This…

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Cybersecurity for Business: A Teenager Hacked The CIA

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You Could Be Hacked, Too With new threats emerging all of the time, it’s no wonder that cybersecurity is such a major part of any technological endeavor. Your should be using the most powerful security solutions on the market in order to avoid intensive hacks. Despite the emphasis that our society places on security, it…

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Technology Security for Businesses: Top IT and Technology Best Practices

The Best Practices To Secure Your Business Look no further. Our IT staff has assembled these 5 core recommendations through years of experience supporting bank and credit union IT infrastructure and people. Make it everyone’s business We put this first because we’ve seen too many experts neglect this one or leave it at the end…

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