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Data Encryption Best Practices for Los Angeles RIAs

Feb 02, 2018

Is your Los Angeles investment advisor firm protecting sensitive client information with data encryption? For investment firms, data protection is more than a company-mandated directive: it’s the law. Failure to protect sensitive information can ...

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The iOS Bug That Freezes Your iPhone with a Message

Jan 31, 2018

The once-believed to be “unhackable” Apple iPhone has another cybersecurity gap that can lead to phones freezing and restarting — all from receiving a simple text message According to a Mashable article, software developer Abraham Masri discovered a ...

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WannaCry Ransomware: How It Affected So Many Businesses

Jan 30, 2018

It’s the worst nightmare for any IT professional. Your company’s system is hit by a ransomware that you don’t see coming. The screen-sized message covers your screen so you can’t type or operate the system. The cryptoviral infection holds your ...

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Protecting Client Data

How Accounting Firms Can Improve Client Data Protection

Jan 29, 2018

I need not remind you that your clients look to you, as their Los Angeles certified public accountant (CPA), to safeguard their information and financial data. Implementing comprehensive client data protection policies, procedures, and security ...

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How RIA Technology Can Improve Efficiency

How RIA Technology Can Improve Efficiency

Jan 25, 2018

Like many professionals across a number of industries, Los Angeles registered investment advisors (RIAs) may struggle to remember a time when they didn’t use RIA technology to manage their business and communicate with clients. The internet, along ...

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6 Data and Technology Trends to Look For in 2018

Jan 24, 2018

Here we are at the start of a new year. It’s a time when the year is essentially still a blank slate and full of potential for exciting new data and technology trends in 2018. It may even be the year that Tesla finally delivers its Model 3 electric ...

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How Encryption Software Can Protect LA RIAs

How Encryption Software Can Protect LA RIAs

Jan 24, 2018

As an LA based Registered Investment Advisor there’s a good chance you’re doing as much as you can to protect the sensitive data you handle on a daily basis. From firewalls and paper shredding, to system purges and strong passwords there’s a lot ...

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GDPR Compliance: A Checklist of What You Need to Know

Jan 23, 2018

The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a form of data privacy regulation that was agreed upon by the European Parliament and Council in April 2016, will come into effect and replace the existing Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC ...

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Investment Advisors Can Implement A Successful Business Continuity Plan

3 Ways RIAs Can Implement A Business Continuity Plan

Jan 22, 2018

Through business continuity planning, Los Angeles registered investment advisors (RIAs) can deliver important services to clients — even in the event of a disaster or another disruption. A firm can minimize threats and quickly rebound from ...

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Why You Need a Secure Network

Jan 18, 2018

After what was a record-setting year of cyber attacks and cyber crime, two of the most common questions I’m answering these days are: 1) “We have a firewall, so my network’s secure, right?” or 2) “You guys are monitoring my network, so it’s secure, ...

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6 Ways Your Business Can Benefit from Managed Security Services

Jan 15, 2018

I think we can all agree how scary running the technology for a business is these days with all the cyberattacks, hacks, ransomware, and other cybersecurity threats happening and how much they’ve increased over the past several years. What’s even ...

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