There’s a great deal of interest and confusion among dealers regarding the new FTC Safeguards Rule.  When working on compliance with the Rule, it’s helpful to remember the intention [...]

Cybersecurity hygiene is a set of habitual practices that you perform regularly to maintain the health and security of users, devices, networks, and data.  It’s like brushing your teeth.  [...]

Today, there is an IT/cybersecurity skills crisis.  Gartner predicts that this skills crisis could cause 75% of businesses to experience visible disruptions.  This means, the inability to perform business [...]

The FTC Safeguards Rule now requires that dealerships perform an annual cyber-risk assessment.  This requirement shouldn’t be viewed as just another government regulation that is a big hassle with [...]

The cybersecurity poverty line is a term used to understand your dealership’s cybersecurity shortfalls and what needs to be done to level-up and enhance your cybersecurity posture.  The line [...]

Privilege escalation is when a malicious user gains elevated access to resources they are not authorized to access.  This happens when a cybercriminal exploits a bug, design flaw, or [...]

There’s lots of interest in - and questions about - the new FTC Safeguards Rule.  In this blog we provide answers to some of the most common questions we [...]

The point at which the cybercriminal emerges and demands ransom is the endgame of a cyber-attack - not the beginning.  The key to minimizing – or even eliminating – [...]

There’s a lot of interest in the new Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act’s (GLBA) revised Safeguards Rule.  The new Rule gets more specific about exactly what dealers must have in place to [...]