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Top 6 Things LA Distributors Can Learn from Anthem's Security Breach

Mar 19, 2015

How would your company handle a bill for over $100 million following a security breach? That was the likely impact of the theft of data early in 2015 from Anthem, the second-biggest US health insurance provider. Anthem confirmed that as many as 80 ...

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How an IT Risk Assessment Protects LA Investment Advisors

Mar 17, 2015

Cyber-attacks pose a threat to all businesses, but their impact on those in the financial services industry is especially severe. Unauthorized access to sensitive data can leave investment advisory firms on the hook for hundreds of thousands of ...

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How Successful LA Wholesale Companies are Moving to the Cloud

Mar 16, 2015

Cloud computing services have a feature that conventional enterprise IT can never have. Unlike in-house hardware and software licenses that come in indivisible lumps (you can’t buy half a server), with the cloud you can take as little or as many ...

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How the California Accounting Board Supports LA CPAs

Mar 13, 2015

Ensuring accounting firms adhere to a set of ethical business practices and are properly licensed to do business are key mandates for the California Accounting Board (CBA). The CBA has been protecting the reputation of its members since 1901, and ...

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Choosing Convenience Over Security

Mar 13, 2015

So often when working with clients, you can tell how seriously they take security right there in the middle of the discussion. While security is always a trade off - between uber-secure and ease of access and cost. IT people will err on the side of ...

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How RIAs Use Vulnerability Testing to Protect Their Assets

Mar 12, 2015

The threat landscape has transformed in recent years, and the trusted old combination of a firewall and anti-virus software is no longer adequate protection against more sophisticated attacks we’re seeing these days. A “belt and suspenders” approach ...

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How Adding Remote Offices Can Benefit Your LA CPA Firm

Mar 11, 2015

A remote office, or virtual office as they are often called, provide a number of benefits including: selecting from a wider range of talent by choosing from employees who live far from your office location reducing overhead by employing staff with ...

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Could Android Malware Protection Save Your LA Distribution Company?

Mar 10, 2015

Do you use an Android smartphone or tablet? Market statistics suggest that many mobile computing device users in your LA distribution company will already have opted for Android. If you have a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy, then those Android ...

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3 Foolproof Data Security Policy Tips for Your LA Accounting Firm

Mar 09, 2015

Information privacy is one of the most critical factors of creating and maintaining a successful accounting firm. To be successful in this area, data loss prevention needs to be emphasized with employees from the top on a regular basis. Data ...

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Protecting Your Information in the Digital Age

Mar 06, 2015

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Why Unified Communications Matters if You're an LA Wholesale Company

Mar 06, 2015

Talk about being pulled in several directions at once! Yet a wholesale company needs to keep the lines taut between resellers, end-customers, and manufacturers, all at the same time. Business partner queries, requests, and orders need to be handled ...

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