Episode 12 - How to Lower Your Chance of a Cyber Attack by 80% - Dovell Bonnett

06/13/20 • 27 min

"It's not the passwords that are insecure, it is the MANAGEMENT of those passwords that is the problem." Words from our guest in this episode, Dovell Bonnett.
Small businesses often disregard the importance of keeping their data safe. According to our guest, the AVERAGE data breach ends up costing a company over $8 million in lost revenue, fines, attorney costs, and lost customers. Here's another fact - according to a poll, 70% of IT professionals feel that their companies will be breached on average 5 times this year alone!
So what can businesses do to mitigate their risk? It all starts with the weakest link - your employees.
Dovell Bonnett has been creating computer security solutions for 25 years. His passionate belief that technology should work for humans, and not the other way around, has lead him to create innovative solutions that protect businesses from cyber-attacks, free individual computer users from cumbersome security policies, and put IT administrators back in control of their networks.

He has spent most of his career solving business security needs, incorporating multiple applications onto single credentials using both contact and contactless smartcards. The most famous example of his work is the ID badge currently carried by all Microsoft employees.

In 2005, he founded Access Smart LLC to provide cyber access control solutions to businesses. His premiere product, Power LogOn, provides multi-factor authentication and enterprise password management to corporations, hospitals, educational institutions, police departments, government agencies, and more around the world.

Dovell is a frequent speaker and sought-after consultant on the topic of passwords, cybersecurity, and building secure, affordable and appropriate computer authentication infrastructures. His most recent book is Making Passwords Secure: How to Fix the Weakest Link in Cybersecurity.
You can reach Dovell by visiting his website at www.access-smart.com
Managed Service providers are encourage to reach out to Dovell, as he only works through IT services professionals.

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Employee Covid 19 Stress - Is It Affecting Your Bottom Line?

Many people are afraid to go back to work because they feel unsafe in their work places. I recall hearing people who worked at meat packing plants and how scared they were to be shoulder to shoulder with fellow workers and how many Covid cases and deaths were attributed to the meat packing industry. While our country is greatly improving the Covid numbers, there is still a lot of stressed out people.
Our guest today is a Florida Board-Certified Addictions Professional (CAP); Internationally Certified Alcohol & Drug Counselor (ICADC); a certified health coach (Villanova College of Nursing); an Approved Training Provider through the Florida Certification Board; member, Florida Association and National Association of Drug Court Professionals. He is Chair of the Florida Association of Recovery Residences (FARR), and a Board Member with the Alliance for Addiction Solutions (AAS).

He has previous experience as the Executive Director of residential substance abuse treatment centers in Florida and served on the board of several homeless coalitions and other community organizations. He has worked extensively with the homeless, addicted, mentally ill, sexually abused and persons with disabilities.

From a business perspective he has been an owner, CEO and founder of several treatment centers.

And on top of all that he is also a pastor.
Our guest today is Lyle Fried, Behavioral Expert.
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Help For Our Heroes

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Transformations Treatment Center

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Lyle contact phone: 772-332-8711

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Episode 13 - What it Takes To Have Happy Clients in Business Networking and Security

This episode is all about keeping small and medium sized businesses up and running as well as keeping their networks safe from attacks.
Philip Semplice, a top Managed Service Provider based in Pittsburgh, PA, talks about how to keep clients happy while keeping them protected at the same time.
If you are a business or practice owner, you know that there is a difference between firms that watch over your network. Many don't get the attention they deserve and they feel like they are constantly nickel and dime every time they need some help. If you feel this way, you are not alone.
Now that businesses are re-opening, many are considering making a move to another managed service provider who can not only keep their network up and running, but also keep them safe from cyber criminal activity. Philip guides business owners as to what questions they should be thinking about and also what questions to ask potential managed service providers.
This is a must listen to episode if you own or manage a business.
To reach Philip with questions, you can contact him at:
[email protected]
or call him directly at (724) 949-0017
His website is www.SafSecur.com