While major cyber incidents and data breaches at large corporations capture global headlines, middle market companies are starting to recognize that they are often the prime target for cybercriminals. With generally limited resources, middle market organizations must place a premium on awareness and benchmarking to help mitigate the threat of cybersecurity attacks and to comply with data privacy regulations.
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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.
In the course of administering an employee benefit plan, many decisions must be made. Whether those decisions are being made by an individual or a committee, the process for making the decision must be prudent. Importantly, if the decision later is challenged by a participant by making an ERISA claim in federal court, how can the person or committee who made the decision demonstrate prudence? Becoming informed is the first step in demonstrating prudence.
6 Helpful Steps to Transition to Outsourced IT
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If you find your family office or growing business suffering from a lack of support in the technology department, then you may benefit from outsourcing IT. While some struggle to find room in the budget to add support staff, there are others continually adding staff only to realize they are unable to keep up with demand. An alternative to those issues is to take six helpful steps to transition to outsourced IT.
Potential drains on business efficiency include groups of remote workers unable to communicate well with one another, tools that make it hard to adapt to changes or new needs, and the high cost of equipment and IT personnel. Integrating cloud-based solutions address these areas, including better workflow and collaboration and document management. In fact, four options provide the opportunity for your business to become more efficient in very little time.
New cyber breach scenarios are constantly emerging, and they bring with them a variety of new claims. The fact that there’s no industry-standard cyber policy language makes it a tremendous challenge to ensure your Cyber Risk insurance will really protect you. Insurance oversight can lead to costly consequences. It’s critical to know the four truths about cyber risk claims denials, beginning with truth number 1: claims can be denied due to your failure to act.
Directors and Officers Liability: How Insurance Oversights Can Lead to Devastating Claims Denials
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Every public, private, or nonprofit organization needs to be protected from within with Director and Officers (D&O) liability. If a claim is brought as a result of a corporate decision you make, your D&O policy will kick in. Without one, you lose the business and your personal assets. Understand how D&O works on your behalf and ways you can avoid claims denials.
A family office is structured by default rather than by design. In most cases, it is set up to serve the immediate needs of the founder and a limited number of family members. As the family grows, mandates change. How do you ensure that the family office is equipped to handle these new demands? Do you outsource? Partner? Expand?Join us for an in-depth discussion as we explored what structure is best for your family office. This was an interactive discussion designed to stimulate thinking for the future of your family office.
Many ultra wealthy families experience a steady flow of incoming donation requests – from friends, other family members, colleagues, even strangers – and saying “no” can be difficult. But just because you can afford to say “yes” doesn’t mean you should.Defining your philanthropic mission and associated giving parameters (which includes saying “no” to some organizations), allows you to say “yes” to more opportunities that are in line with your goals – resulting in more deliberate, targeted philanthropic impact.
Single family offices (SFOs) have long been an established way for wealthy families to create accountability and structure around the myriad needs of family members. Yet decades of experience have revealed that families too often fail to recognize—or choose to ignore—early signs that an existing SFO structure is cost prohibitive or failing to meet a family’s shifting needs. For the infographic, click here.