When you hand your personal information to a company; your email address, your credit card number, your home address, there is an unspoken agreement: they will protect it. But what happens when that protection fails, and more importantly, how long does it take before anyone even knows it has failed? At first glance, everything […]
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Executives will go at great lengths to protect their boardroom conversations, legal documents, financial decisions, investor communications, and private calendars carefully. But you’d be surprised to know how many will still connect to an airport Wi-Fi, hotel network, conference Wi-Fi, or business lounge internet with little or no thought to the dangers. Public Wi-Fi may
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Most executives don’t give a second thought about their Amazon wish list, in fact I don’t think many people do. It’s just a place to store your favorite items for purchase later, there’s nothing strategic or sensitive to it. Or is there? These days, where data is constantly being collected, interpreted, and cross-referenced, and
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You carry the same device everywhere you go, but the risk isn’t the same everywhere you go. Cross one border, and your private data is protected. Cross another, and it becomes vulnerable to monitoring, cybercrime, and legal access that you’d never expect. For executives and high-net-worth individuals, moving from one country to another may
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Ever since its release in November 2022, ChatGPT has been used extensively by a wide range of individuals, from students to musicians, and of course, executives. Every day, executives unknowingly, or perhaps knowingly, type boardroom strategies, private travel plans, financial projections, and even hints of upcoming deals into AI chat tools. They do this
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Let’s imagine for a moment one of your board members getting a message that looks like it came from your child, panicked, and asking for help. Later that same day, an investor comes across a fake profile using your photos to promote a scam. None of it is real, but the fear and damage
You wake one morning and, while sipping your favorite brew, you glance at your phone, only to see a dark web monitoring alert. Your executive login credentials, passport scans, and financial records are being sold or auctioned off on a dark web marketplace. The worst part is that this may not even be the result
Tax time; not only do we have to navigate the minefield known as the tax system, but now we have to contend with a significant rise in tax scams, more specifically AI-powered tax scams. Thanks to the relentless rise of artificial intelligence, a sophisticated new wave of tax scams has emerged where cybercriminals can now
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The path to financial success is not an easy one. Ask any entrepreneur, CEO, or high-ranking executive, and they’ll most likely tell you it involves a lot of hard work and overcoming many failures before financial goals are realized. Once you have achieved that financial success, it usually comes with a feeling of security, and
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Intellectual property, company trade secrets, new innovations, and ideas—these are all the kinds of information that are supposed to remain secret. Even though some of this information may eventually become public, it cannot happen before the appropriate time. Have you ever considered how easy it is for a competitor or cybercriminal to steal your company’s
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