On May 25, 2018 Europe’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) went into effect. After a year of unprecedented data breaches and hacking scandals (Facebook, anyone?) the leap up to GDPR had any and every organization that processes information...
Are GDPR-like regulations coming to the US?
Lessons from FinTechs: How Financial Institutions Can Respond to Industry Disruptions
The financial industry, for better or worse, tends to typically be resistant to change. Think of the way bankers have done business for hundreds of years - not much has changed overtime (except for maybe the invention of ATM machines in the late...
Fear Not the Cloud, A User’s Guide: Part 2
The Power of Scaling
For many organizations using cloud services can have many benefits. To begin with, your employees are able to login to their systems anytime, anywhere and there is frequently a higher adoption rate and lower learning curve among...
Fear Not the Cloud, A User’s Guide: Part 1
In general, people fear what they don’t know and this is doubly true for all things related to technology. We get it. Your company’s IT can be daunting. After all, it powers your entire business! If something goes wrong, or even just misbehaves for...
Two-Factor Authentication: What Is It and Why Do You Need It?
If you’ve spent any significant amount of time around technology, or even just poked around on the Internet, you’ve probably already been introduced to the concept of two-factor authentication (a.k.a multi-factor authentication), without realizing...