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

"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.