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Valuing Secrets: Medical Information

Medical records do get stolen. While we cannot say for certain, it seems that there is little criminal interest in buying them.

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Valuing Secrets: Proprietary Client Information

This article is part of the Handling Secrets series. In this first part, Valuing Secrets, we describe how to rate the likelihood of theft...

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Handling Secrets

Part of our series on Handling Secrets. Do you have secrets? I have asked this question hundreds of times. Most say no. You do. Your most...

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Stopping Fraud: Register with D&B

Part of our series on Security for Medium Businesses. Did you know that your business has a profile and credit history? Just like your...

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Stopping Fraud: For the Low-Tech Business

Part of our series on Security for Medium Businesses. “Bah,” you say. “None of this newfangled fraud applies to me because I do not use...

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Stopping Fraud: Messaging

Part of our series on Security for Medium Businesses. Note: while understanding is not wholly predicated on formal accreditation, Simple...

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Stopping Fraud: Contracts

Part of our series on Security for Medium Businesses. Note: while understanding is not wholly predicated on formal accreditation, Simple...

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Stopping Fraud: Three Way Match

Part of our series on Security for Medium Businesses. Last week, we discussed how maintaining a list of Valid Vendors can help prevent...

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Stopping Fraud: Vendor Governance

Part of our series on Security for Medium Businesses. Cheating is older than history. The oldest intact written record is a complaint...

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Stopping Fraud: Eliminating Email Forgery

Part of our series on Security for Medium Businesses. I’ll be straight with you: today’s article strays into tech. Today’s...

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Stopping Fraud: Payment Interception

Part of our series on Security for Medium Businesses. Basics of the Scam One of the most common sources of successful business fraud is...

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Stopping Fraud

Part of our series on Security for Medium Businesses. As we’ve covered extensively, the biggest security threat to organizations is...

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Least Privilege 4: Access Governance

Part of our series on Security for Medium Businesses. So there’s a joke that metrics nerds love to tell, especially those in security. A...

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Least Privilege 3: Roles and Segregation of Duties

Last time we discussed how to drive Least Privilege by automatically expiring access and by eliminating generic accounts. To this point,...

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Least Privilege 2: Auto-Expiration and Generic Accounts

Last week we talked about Least Privilege and how it can help reduce the impact of people doing bad things on an account. We started by...

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Least Privilege 1: Intro and Privileged Access

A mainstay of Big Business security frameworks is making sure everyone has barely enough access. This reduces the impact of two threats:...

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Security Simplified: Medium Businesses

Part of our series on Security for Medium Businesses. A medium business usually has the same security threats and strategies as a small...

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