by Ed McGuire | Aug 6, 2024 | Commercial Insurance, Cyber Risk, Cyber Security, FB Cyber Defense
Recap: The July 2024 CrowdStrike Outage In July 2024, a widespread CrowdStrike outage affected approximately 8.5 million Microsoft users, causing system failures and massive business interruptions. Businesses everywhere, including New England were hit, some facing...
by Ariel Christopher | Jun 7, 2018 | Business Insurance, Business Risk, Cyber Security, Data Security, Data Thieves, Farrell Backlund, FBinsure, Identity Theft, Insurance
We live on our phones and couldn’t imagine the horror of something happening to them, so why are they not protected? Cyber Attackers are acutely aware that tablets, computers, laptops, and smart phones are an integral part of today’s world. Smart assistants, like...
by Ed McGuire | Oct 19, 2017 | Business, Business Insurance, Business Risk, Cyber Security, Data Breach, Data Security, Data Thieves, Ed McGuire, Farrell Backlund, FBinsure, Uncategorized
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, safeguarding our digital data is an ongoing battle. As more people share sensitive information online and businesses transition to digital operations, the risk of identity theft and data breaches increases. Over the...
by Ed McGuire | Mar 9, 2017 | Cyber Security, Data Security, Data Thieves, FBinsure, Uncategorized
Cyber scams are an everyday occurrence for individuals. Recent cyber scams have surfaced that involve senior executives (bosses) emailing requests to their employees asking the employee to confirm their Social Security numbers and also provide other confidential...
by Ed McGuire | Sep 23, 2016 | Cyber Security, Data Breach, Data Security, Data Thieves
Cyber Hackers never rest! Let’s be honest—criminal hackers are very good at what they do. As a matter of fact good criminal hackers are better at what they do for a living than what we legally do for a living. THIS is a link to the article written by an IT...
by Ed McGuire | Aug 25, 2016 | Business Insurance, business plan, Cyber Security
When any business regardless of size or industry discovers their data may have been compromised they usually, and without fail, have a knee jerk reaction fueled by panic. They take their eye off the ball and focus most of their energies on dealing with the compromise...
