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Employee Cybersecurity Awareness Training – What Dealerships Need To Know

Jeff Mason2026-06-12T18:33:03-04:00Tags: best practices, compliance, comprehensive information security program, customer personal information, cyber attack, cyber defense, cyber risk, cyber threats, cybercriminals, cybersecurity, cybersecurity audit, data, data security, dealership cybersecurity, dealership it, dealerships, employees, training, vulnerability|

To mitigate the risk of a successful, cyberattack, dealerships [...]

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An Eye-Opening Discovery: The True Intent of The FTC Safeguards Rule

Jeff Mason2026-06-30T11:05:04-04:00Tags: audit, best practices, compliance, comprehensive information security program, customer personal information, cyber threats, cybersecurity, cybersecurity audit, data, data breach, data privacy, data security, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, privacy, rules, safeguards, updates, vulnerability|

The FTC Safeguards Rule mandates that dealerships must "develop, [...]

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The Critical Role of Data Encryption Keys in Cybersecurity

Jeff Mason2026-06-09T12:21:48-04:00Tags: comprehensive information security program, cyber attack, cyber defense, cyber risk, cyber threats, cybersecurity, cybersecurity audit, data, data breach, data encryption, data privacy, data security, dealership cybersecurity, information security, security audit|

Safeguarding consumer information has become paramount. With the rise [...]

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The Worthless Vulnerability Scan

Jeff Mason2026-06-30T11:09:12-04:00Tags: audit, best practices, comprehensive information security program, cyber defense, cyber risk, cybersecurity, cybersecurity audit, data, dealership cybersecurity, information technology, risk exposure, threat detection, vulnerability|

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) mandates that dealerships - [...]

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A Self-Assessment Cautionary Tale

Jeff Mason2026-06-30T11:12:05-04:00Tags: audit, best practices, comprehensive information security program, cyber defense, cyber risk, cybersecurity, cybersecurity audit, dealership cybersecurity, dealership it, dealerships, information technology, risk, risk exposure, security audit, threat detection, vulnerability|

Many dealerships have been falsely led to believe that [...]

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The Power of Cybersecurity Context

Jeff Mason2026-06-09T15:02:46-04:00Tags: cyber attack, cyber defense, cyber risk, cyber threats, cybersecurity, cybersecurity audit, dealership cybersecurity, firewall, risk, risk exposure, vulnerability|

Auto dealerships have become prime targets for cyberattacks. As [...]