No one is immune from cybersecurity threats. And responsibility for protecting your data doesn’t rest with one person or provider. So it’s essential every organization follows at least some basic cybersecurity best practices. A great step toward ensuring your data is safe is to maintain good cyber hygiene. We recommend hiring a third party to conduct periodic holistic threat assessments to surface issues that should be mitigated/controlled.
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Surveying the Risk and Threat Landscape to Family Offices: Insights and Recommendations
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The key to success of any risk management plan is the development of an “all risk” approach that takes the entire family enterprise into account. Through a survey of more than 200 family office executives at single and multi-family offices, an uncovering of some worrying approaches has surfaced around the risks that family offices face, particularly cyber risk, family-related risk, investment risk, and employment-related/insider risks.
Dual Factor for Social Media
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Adding dual factor authentication to your social media helps make sure that you, and only you, can access your account. Instead of only entering a password to log in, an extra security key will be required to access your account. Step by step, learn how easy it is to configure for your Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, SnapChat, WhatsApp, and Twitter accounts.
Although malware is predominantly delivered via email, the types of entry points continue to evolve, and many will not be caught by a family office firewall. So, it is crucial to build a first line of defense, and it starts with employee security awareness training, testing, and auditing. Mitigate the cybersecurity risks in the family office by deploying the top 10 internal controls.
Family Office Risks: Managing the Impact of Change
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The complex, convergent nature of risks facing high-net-worth families requires family offices to adopt both a holistic and strategic approach to risk management than many have in the past. The ones who can make the change will be best positioned to successfully navigate the challenges that range from overarching trends of growing families to increasing frequency and severity of natural catastrophes and personal security risks.
Cyber Security Best Practices for Your Business
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Cyber security is a subject that continues to make headlining news. Because every business is at risk of a cyberattack, it’s important to know what types of threats your business could be subject to and understand the techniques you can implement to help prevent attacks from happening.
The revolution of the “information age” has created tremendous advantages and helped accelerate innovation, but it has also brought with it new risks—namely cyber attacks. While the corporate attacks get most of the media attention, do not forget that individuals—especially the high net worth—need to be vigilant about cyber security. The good news is that there are ways for individuals to protect against cyber risks. This paper touches on the key threats to the high net worth and provides advice to help reduce the associated risks.
Cyberattacks are impossible to completely prevent and the consequences of a data breach can be devastating. In addition to information and finances lost, breaches can result in downtime and reputational damage that can set your company far behind competitors. If your organization has experienced a cyberattack, there are three things that can be done to help you make it through the data breach and come out stronger than before.