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F&L Construction Inc. is a locally-owned small business that has been serving the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area since 1991, providing services in general contracting, construction management, design-build, and site development. I recently had the opportunity to speak with their founder and CEO, Freddie Winston, a long-time and devoted client of PSA, about how F&L Construction, […]
Remember when we said that cybersecurity risks are important to pay attention to? Well, now is the time to listen. As you are probably reading this from your basement, kitchen table, or makeshift office, I don’t need to tell you that COVID-19 has changed the way we work literally overnight. Not only do many of […]
There’s a suspicious-looking person in a trench coat typing away at a keyboard in a dark room. Are they stealing data? Selling drugs? Hiring hitmen for a job? This is what we think of when we hear the term dark web. In a recent webinar PSA hosted with Emily Wilson, VP of Research at Terbium […]
As mentioned in the first installment of this blog series, cyber risk management has become a mission-critical activity for a long-term viability of any organization, which should be driven by leadership and involve all technology users. But often, building and implementing a cybersecurity risk management plan is quite challenging for non-technical executives. To help, in […]
If you’ve experienced a cyber event or data breach, or you understand how easy it is for one to occur, then you know the mission-critical importance of cybersecurity risk management plans. However, unlike traditional risk management — for things like employee safety culture or physical security — cyber risk management has only recently started to […]
Leaders are increasingly acknowledging that investing in cybersecurity is a smart business decision. They are making cyber risk management an enterprise priority and dedicating time and resources to understand their risk. For these leaders, the goal is resiliency – the ability to withstand and quickly bounce back from an incident without severe business interruption or […]
Did you know? To date, in 2017 there have been 133 reported data breaches in the healthcare industry – on average 17,849 records breached per incident. The Ponemon Institute estimates the cost per lost or stolen healthcare record to be about $400. This does not include fines and penalties, which can further increase the cost. […]
The firm is the first local independent insurance broker in the Mid-Atlantic region using the product, which PSA staff helped develop. HUNT VALLEY, Md. (March 24, 2017)—PSA Insurance & Financial Services (PSA) is one of a handful of insurance brokers around the country using CyVaR, a risk evaluation tool developed in partnership with PivotPoint Risk […]
Businesses have to use technology to compete and by doing so they are exposed to new risks related to data and network security. Yet options to do anything meaningful to protect data and networks can be confusing, limited or simply inadequate. Further complicating the issue is that society and laws are struggling to catch up […]
