By Ron Daly, President/CEO
Virtual StrongBox, Inc.
Source: https://www.cbinsight.com/5-steps-prevent-data-breaches-bank.html

There are some categories where no company wants a first-place ranking: number of defective product recalls, number of malpractice suits and number of data breaches, to name a few. (That last title, most breaches and records stolen (40 million), went to Fling.com, a Florida-based online relationship service.)

Globally, data collected by the Breach Level Index shows 974 reported data breaches over the first half of 2016, for a total of 554.5 million records. The 2015 Index puts the total of stolen records at 707.5 million records in 2015. Breaking it out, you’re looking […]

By Ron Daly, President/CEO
Virtual StrongBox, Inc.
Source: https://www.cbinsight.com/banks-corporate-immune-system-killing-innovation.html

While today’s technology is disrupting all industries, those of us in financial services think of it mostly in terms of digital bank services and marketing. We ask, How do our customers want to interact with us? Which digital strategies will make us most competitive? When will see a bottom-line benefit from our investment?

But when I recently got my annual flu shot, I started thinking about the ways new technologies are put to use in other areas, like fighting disease. The first flu vaccine was developed in 1945, and now researchers are closing in […]