business

The NCSA is pleased to present a guest blog by John Browne, VP Sales & Marketing of Wibu-Systems USA.

Reputable software publishers want you to use their software and recommend it to other people. This is why they spend money creating a quality product with good technical support.

Software counterfeiters have entirely different motives. They are doing something illegal, and you can’t trust them. Often, they will collect your personal details and sell them on, or try to sell you bogus products. The last thing they care about is customer satisfaction; instead, they make money by ripping you off. 

The NCSA is pleased to present a guest blog written by Jennifer Leuer, Senior Vice President of Experian Consumer Direct.

Whether you are traveling for work or pleasure, the last thing you want to think about is having your identity stolen. At Experian’s ProtectMyID, we wanted to better understand how travelers were putting themselves at risk and commissioned a survey to look into it. The survey results indicated that people often leave themselves open to unnecessary risk, but there are simple steps you can take to stay cyber secure while on the road.

Welcome to Entry #3 in our “Get Involved” blog series!

In the spirit of the “Our Shared Responsibility” theme, the NCSA has developed “Get Involved!” sheets. Each sheet provides suggestions for what people can do from where they stand to make themselves and those around them safer and more secure online and contribute to National Cyber Security Awareness Month. This week, we’ll be highlighting what businesses can do.

At NCSA^GG, one of our major focus areas is encouraging small and medium size businesses to do more to secure their business data, customer data, and intellectual property. Sometimes it's easy for a small or medium size company to think we really don't have anything of value, we are small and we won’t be target, or the cost of securing our systems is not worth it.

That’s a dangerous mindset.