Cost Of Data Breaches In 2021
We recently sat in on a presentation by a leading independent Canadian accounting firm on ways to reduce risk with cyber insurance. We’ve been discussing cyber insurance for ...
How Much Should You Invest In Cyber Resilience?
(Hint: It’s Different Than Your IT Budget) There’s been a lot of talk recently about large ransomware events (e.g. Colonial Pipeline, JBS Foods). ...
What is Your Chocolate Cake Recipe?
Earlier this year, we completed our annual planning process here at Birmingham Consulting and it had us reflecting on our recipe for chocolate ...
Are You Paying Too Much For IT & Cyber Security?
Let me refine the question: “Do you feel that you are paying too much for IT?” If you answer “yes”, then you probably have stable infrastructure, ...
Why The Kaseya Ransomware Event Will Forever Change the IT Industry Supply Chain
One of the largest – if not the largest – ransomware events in history took place over the U.S. Independence Day long weekend. A ...
Anyone that Promises “Perfect, 100% Security” is Misleading You.
Contrary to popular belief, it is impossible to be 100% secure when it comes to cyber security. As a business owner ...
No Honour Among Thieves
It’s a topic that feels unbelievable – the thriving industry of ransomware attacks. As with any business or market, when thieves are ...
Work and Personal Data: Don’t Use the Wrong Device at the Wrong Time
We’ve been saying this to our clients for years, but especially with many of us working from home, it needs to ...
The Most Efficient Way to Lose Information
There are lots of cyber threats out there. With this thought in mind, is the following statement TRUE or FALSE? “The best way to protect information is by isolating it in one place: your computer."
Don’t let passwords walk out of the door
The results of a recent lawsuit shine a light on the danger of not immediately disabling user logins when an ...
