Cybersecurity is by no means novel, but in an evolving landscape affected by new technologies, geopolitical tensions, and a larger-than-ever digital footprint, the importance of your family office’s cyber strategy cannot be overemphasized. Join us to learn how SEI’s experience as a regulated financial firm translates to a hyper awareness of existing threats, so that you can ensure your family office is truly doing enough to protect and secure your private client data. Dave Detweiler, Managing Director of Sales, SEI
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This fireside chat will focus on the challenges that family offices are facing today and how to maximize insight into financials. We will identify solutions that Sage Intacct can offer to help streamline your multi-entity management, data security, and transaction automation with artificial intelligence and machine learning technology. Karen M. Hays, Principal Marketing Manager, Financial Services, Sage Kelly Gonyea, Principal Consultant, Financial Services, Sage
2022 Cybersecurity Update
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Our annual cybersecurity update will discuss one of the leading cybersecurity risks to your firm and your clients—ransomware. With the instances of ransomware attacks rising every day, wealthy family offices are particularly attractive targets to cybercriminals. In this webinar, Baker Tilly Cybersecurity Principal Joe Shusko provides insights on managing your family office’s risk against a ransomware attack. He will discuss the impacts and trends of ransomware attacks, how ransomware attacks are executed and leading practices to minimize your ransomware risk.
By implementing proactive controls, organizations can minimize the chance of falling victim to a ransomware attack. This guide explores these eight leading cybersecurity practices, with critical steps to take and tips to incorporate into your approach: Know your environment Keep your data backups safe Implement a patch management program Build a security-aware culture Assess control and authentication Monitor, detect and respond Implement a ransomware recovery strategy Consider ransomware insurance
2021 Cybersecurity Update
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This annual cybersecurity update covers the leading threats you need to be aware of to keep your clients and your firm protected. 2021 cybersecurity trends and best practices will be shared.
Cybersafe Solutions: Fundamentals Checklist
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From phishing emails and identity theft to fraudulent money transfer requests, cybercriminals continue to find new ways to target individuals and their assets. This fundamentals checklist and recommendations can help protect you, your family, and your assets.
In a rapidly evolving virtual world, many family offices are revising or creating document retention practices to make sure they have secure access to critical personnel and family financial records. Through a series of FAQs and a checklist of what documents to retain, you can ensure that you have an up-to-date document retention policy as part of your document management process that will help mitigate concerns over data security and loss of key information.
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.
Fraud is happening at your organization; you just don’t know it. Then again, maybe you do, but you are not sure how pervasive the problem is, where to begin your anti-fraud journey, or how to enhance your current fraud risk management practices. This playbook—which includes templates, checklists, and tools—draws from best practices and leading guidance that will reduce your fraud risk.
Transforming Risk: Shifting from Reactive to Proactive, Driving Change in Information Governance
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Runaway data growth is probably one of the greatest risk factors facing organizations today. With many organizations struggling to deal with the rapid explosion of data, coupled with increasingly aggressive regulatory enforcement, how should they drive change in information governance to achieve operational efficiencies and guard against data breaches? The key is to address the source of the problem and focus on three important areas to stem or flatten the information growth curve and proactively mitigate risk.