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Focal Point
Focal Point is dedicated to helping business executives and IT leaders understand the management and security challenges posed by distributed business.
6 Tips for Shielding Your Organization From Rising Cybercrime
Cybersecurity Awareness Month—time to take stock of your cyber hygiene, assess your risk score, and strengthen your virtual locks as cybercrime rises.
How Enterprise Is Facing Up to Ransomware
As ransomware attack payouts skyrocket, business partners, suppliers, and boards are demanding companies establish data protection protocols.
What Is a Cyber Risk Score?
A cyber risk score is a key data point that organizations use to strengthen security, assure partners, and lower insurance rates. Here's the 101.
Cyber Risk Scores Should Be More Than Just a Number
Knowing your cyber risk score is vital—but it’s more than a number. It must help you I.D. weak spots AND clear, compelling defense strategies. Here’s how.
How NPower Creates Pathways to Prosperity
Too many people don’t know how to get into high tech, especially in underserved communities. Tech training from NPower helps develop that workforce.
How to Get Out of Technical Debt
Experts define technical debt differently, making it seem more complex than it is. What you need to know—it’s on the rise, a security threat, and fixable.
Urgent Lessons From the T-Mobile Data Breach
As IT teams continue to battle an always-on campaign of cyberattacks, there are five lessons from the T-Mobile data breach that everyone should keep in mind.
The Art of Ransomware Negotiation
Ransomware negotiation is part tennis match, part art form—which is why most enterprises hire experts to handle deals. Here’s how the best resolve conflict.
The Most Cyber-Savvy Lawyer Around
Stewart Baker, former policy wonk for the Department of Homeland Security, discusses today’s cybersecurity challenges and how enterprises should face them.
5 Steps for Evaluating Cybersecurity Before an Acquisition
The biggest threat to a successful acquisition is often overlooked--M&A desks must assess a target's cybersecurity protocols, or pay the consequences.
Cybersecurity Tops Energy Regulator Concerns
A new report from the nation's power grid watchdog says cyber threats are a critical challenge to energy reliability. Basic cyber hygiene can help.
5 Charts That Explain IT's Crisis of Visibility
Asset visibility and tool sprawl are two of the top issues putting business resilience at risk, according to a new IDG survey. Here's what you need to know.