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If you value your reputation, you must value cybersecurity.

By Erik NachbahrJanuary 21, 2020 · 1 min read

Helion’s President & Founder warns that one data breach is all it takes to destroy a dealership’s reputation.

Most auto dealers understand that a good reputation is key to growing revenue, and work hard to maintain positive relationships with customers. 

But many dealers don’t realize just how easily all that hard work can be lost in the event of a data breach.

“Today, one of the greatest threats to a dealership’s reputation is the threat of a cyber attack,” Erik Nachbahr writes for Dealer Magazine. “Yet most auto dealerships are inadequately managing that risk.”

Nachbahr emphasizes that dealerships must invest in secure IT infrastructure to prevent data breaches and protect their reputations.

Read the full article in the digital edition of Dealer Magazine.

About the author

Erik Nachbahr

Founder & President, Helion Technologies

Erik Nachbahr founded Helion Technologies in 1997 and has spent nearly 30 years working exclusively with automotive and heavy truck dealerships. Helion now supports more than 2,000 dealerships and 35,000 end users with managed IT, cybersecurity, FTC Safeguards compliance, Tekion enablement, and managed AI, all under one team. A CISSP, Erik writes and speaks about the parts of dealership technology most operators inherit rather than choose: vendor sprawl, AI governance, and cyber risk. His goal is simple: make the technology work so dealerships can focus on what they do best, selling and servicing cars and heavy trucks.

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