Communications
Lessons from the Louisiana Ransomware Attack
When a ransomware attack hit the state of Louisiana this week, affecting some of the state’s server computers, the government responded by taking its servers down. The move was a pre-emptive one, ...
Five Tips for Rapid Communications When an Incident Hits the Water Distribution System
From natural disasters to oil and chemical spills to terrorist attacks to cyberattacks, water distribution systems have to be prepared for a variety of challenges that could contaminate or disrupt the water ...
5 Tips to Protect Your Reputation When a Crisis Hits
These days crises like breaches, ransomware attacks and natural disasters have become all too common and businesses have to contend with keeping core operations running and addressing any reputation fallout that comes ...
Five Takeaways from “Confidential Conversations: Are They Actually Possible?”
Last week, our CEO Galina Datskovsky and global security expert Paul Viollis hosted a panel titled “Confidential Conversations: Are They Actually Possible in Our Technological Age?”. We were lucky to be joined ...
How Senior Living Can Use Smartphones to Streamline Their Communications
Providing patients in senior living with quality care is a team effort—and that team is diverse. It can include multiple doctors, nurses, other caretakers and, of course, the patient’s family. While keeping ...
Who’s Listening? When Voice Assistants Invade Your Privacy
Just this January, Apple featured a billboard at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone,” the billboard stated. The recent news that Apple ...
What Capital One Got Wrong (and Right) After the Breach
With over 106 million customers and applicants’ personal data exposed, the Capital One breach is one of the biggest breaches of a financial institution in US history. A former employee of Amazon’s ...
Meeting NRC Regulations and the Nuclear Event
The US nuclear industry’s safety record is stellar, in part thanks to NRC regulations that arose from Three Mile Island. But complying with NRC regulations is costly: annual ongoing regulatory costs can ...
Five Things Every Law Firm Should Know About Cybersecurity
It’s not surprising that law firms are a valuable target for bad actors when you consider the kind of information they deal with—from non-public intellectual property to merger and acquisitions, law firms ...
What the Baltimore Ransomware Attack Means for Incident Response Communications
On Tuesday, May 7, Baltimore city employees came into work to find that their computer screens were locked. “We’ve been watching you for days,” the message on their screens read, “We won’t ...
