Auto dealers – like many other businesses - are facing a serious problem when it comes to cybersecurity. They’re drowning in "security debt," which means they have a multitude [...]

There’s some bad information floating around regarding the FTC Safeguards Rule, its intent, and cybersecurity best practice.  This misleading information is related to the FTC’s use of the word [...]

Everyone seems to be talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI) like ChatGPT.  This technology - along with other generative AI models - present us with a wide range of potential [...]

As the incidence, severity, and sophistication of today’s cyber threats continues to grow, the appropriate use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) is becoming increasingly important.  Add to this that new [...]

In today's world, cybersecurity threats are an ever-present danger to dealerships, both large and small.  The good news is that many dealerships are taking action to improve their cybersecurity [...]

As dealerships scramble to comply with the new FTC Safeguards Rule it’s important to remember why the new rule exists - to drive businesses to implement more effective cybersecurity [...]

According to research performed by the Ponemon Institute, 60% of cyberattack victims were compromised due to missing software security patches.  Software security patching is the process of updating software [...]

Today the average downtime from a cyberattack is about 3 weeks.  The reason why it takes so many so long to resume operations after a cyberattack is because many [...]

To start, let’s all be clear about the definition of an MSP.  An MSP is a managed service provider.  Helion is an IT/cybersecurity MSP.  More specifically, Helion is an [...]