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Ssn 1 Ep 15: The New Kid in Town, Part 2


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Some of the signs your internal IT department is overworked, the fallout you could face, and how co-managed IT can support your team in a cost-effective way.

 

Strategies for Cutting Costs Series

 Ssn 1 Ep 15

The New Kid in Town, Part 2

Some of the signs your internal IT department may be overworked, and how co-managed IT can assist.

 

SHOW NOTES

Today’s episode continues on with the discussion about a new approach to IT support, co-managed IT.

 

00:50: Some of the signs that your IT department is overwhelmed

 

2:32: Multiple locations, remote working, and the effects on an IT team

 

4:15: Financial and security fallout from an over-stretched IT team

 

5:50: Missed patches and falling behind on routine maintenance, and the extensive damage and downtime that can cost a company.

 

6:15: The average amount of time a threat actor is living on your network before you find out they’re there, and what they’re doing during that time.

 

6:58: How much does your cyber-insurance protect you? How much do they pay out if you suffer a breach?

 

8:40: Reputational damage if you suffer a breach, and other effects on your company.

 

9:15: Lawsuit of a company in the UK that sued an American company

 

9:38: Are government fines, fees, and lawsuits covered by your insurance company if you weren’t at fault in a breach?

 

10:35: Average cost of a data breach

 

11:03: The HIPAA Wall of Shame

 

12:10: The goal is to make your network so difficult to break into, that a threat actor will give up and go somewhere else.

 

12:56: Further fallout: Supply Chain Attack, what is it and how can if affect you?

 

13:55: The new compliance, CMMC, what it is and how it protects the supply chain and what it means for smaller companies

 

14:55: When is co-managed IT NOT a good solution for a company?

 

 

At the end of the Strategies for Cuttings Costs series, we’ll be putting all the highlights together into a mini eBook that you can download. We’ll make it available in the show notes for each of the episodes in the series, so check back on that!

 

Your hosts: Rex Nance and Penny O'Halloran of East Atlantic Security, LLC @ https://EastAtlanticSecurity.com/

 

Voiceover Artist: Paul Kadach at www.voices.com

 

 

You’ll find the downloadable version of these show notes at: https://EastAtlanticSecurity.com/Cyber-Savvy-Cafe

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