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Proactive Cybersecurity Actions Dealerships Can Take Now
It's no longer sufficient to merely react to attacks as they occur. Instead, proactive cybersecurity measures are essential to fortify your defenses and mitigate risks effectively. By taking preemptive [...]
Dealerships Must Reduce Their Attack Surface
Understanding and managing the attack surface is crucial for protecting dealership networks and sensitive data. The attack surface represents all potential points, known as attack vectors, that hackers can [...]
What’s Your Dealership’s Approach To IT? Here Are Some Things to Consider.
Today, dealerships rely on their technology environment to sell and service cars and trucks. Dealership technology is mission critical to a dealership’s success. Yet many dealerships are still employing [...]
Creating A Human Firewall: Protecting Data
To effectively protect your dealership from the cybercriminal, every employee must play a role. One of the most effective tactics within a comprehensive information security program is to fortify [...]
Employee Cybersecurity Awareness Training – What Dealerships Need To Know
To mitigate the risk of a successful, cyberattack, dealerships must address the most common sources of an attack—unpatched security vulnerabilities, human error, and malware. In this blog, we're going [...]
An Eye-Opening Discovery: The True Intent of The FTC Safeguards Rule
The FTC Safeguards Rule mandates that dealerships must "develop, implement, and maintain a comprehensive information security program." The Rule illustrates the FTC's commitment to compelling businesses to establish an [...]
The Critical Role of Data Encryption Keys in Cybersecurity
Safeguarding consumer information has become paramount. With the rise of government data security regulations and the increasing incidence and severity of cybercrime, businesses are scrambling to improve their cyber [...]
The Worthless Vulnerability Scan
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) mandates that dealerships - like any other business - have a "comprehensive information security program" in place to protect sensitive customer data. In this [...]
The Compliance Illusion: Auto Dealerships, FTC Safeguards Rule, and the Reality of Cybersecurity
The Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Safeguards Rule and cyber liability insurance requirements are putting immense pressure on auto dealerships to secure their sensitive data. Seeking an easy, inexpensive solution, [...]