Crackas With Attitude (CWA), the hacker group that recently claimed they breached CIA Director Mark Brennan’s personal AOL email account in October, as well as FBI Deputy Director, Mark Giuliano’s personal AOL email account are now claiming that they have…
Source: Forbes.com Top 5 Cyber Security Issues Facing IoT Device Manufacturers The International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that by 2020, 212 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices will have been installed globally, and the IoT market will be worth $8.9…
4 Ways to Prevent Data Breaches in the Healthcare Industry 2015 is a year we have seen a rise in health insurance fraud, with the most recent health insurance fraud incident being reported by Excellus BlueCross BlueShield (BCBS). The data…
8 Lessons Learned From the Ashley Madison Data Breach The Ashley Madison data breach has been one of the most financially and personally harmful data breaches ever. As of August 2015, it has been reported that the Ashley Madison data…
Top IT Security Threats Facing Financial Institutions in 2015 According to Gartner Research Fraud Analyst, Avivah Titan, “Cyber extortion and company insiders acting as free agents are the greatest current IT security threats facing financial institutions in 2015.” However,…
Top 5 Benefits of Private Cloud Solutions 1. Security Private cloud solutions are more secure than public cloud solutions. How? Private cloud solutions secure and wall-off company IT resources – making them only available to a small proportion…
Do You Know About Delaware Identity Theft Bill 295? Although Delaware General Assembly House Bill 295 (Identity Theft Bill) came into effect on January 1st, 2015, many Delaware business owners are still unaware of the bill over seven months later.…
Silent Killer: Android Stagefright Security Flaw Threatens 950M Mobiles What is the Stagefright Flaw? The Android Stagefright security flaw is a set of serious security vulnerabilities located within the Android operating system (OS) Stagefright media library, which processes several popular…
Top 6 Benefits of Colocation Services for Your Business #1 Scalability. Whether your data needs increase or decrease drastically over time – using a colocation service allows you to scale-to-need and is much more cost-efficient than having to worry about…
Source: Disaster Recovery Preparedness Council (2014 DR Benchmark Survey) 5 Benefits of Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Services Companies #1 Much Cheaper than Traditional DR. The cloud computing revolution has led to a surge in disaster recovery (DR) services. Where once, only…
Top 5 Ways Your Business Can Prevent a POS Cyber Attack #1 Consumers should change PINs regularly. Credit card companies and issuers of debit cards may offer extra protection for consumers against fraudulent purchases and activity, so be sure to ask…
This infographic maps 2015 trends on functions used and being implemented in the cloud: 2015 Top 10 Benefits of Moving Your Business To The Cloud #1 FLEXIBILITY Cloud service companies, such as IPR International, have an expansive network of data centers specifically…
The 20 year-old Logjam vulnerability was discovered on May 19 by a multinational group of IT security computer science researchers from the U.S. and France, including researchers from Inria Nancy-Grand Est and Inria Paris-Rocquencourt in France, Microsoft Research, Johns Hopkins…
The latest significant IT security threat, VENOM, i.e. Virtual Environment Neglected Operations Management was first discovered by CrowdStrike and affects all virtual machines which are running in a Linux Zen or KVM environment with a virtual QEMU floppy disk installed.…
1. Install Mobile Anti-Virus Software With mobile device usage being so ubiquitous these days and data breaches steadily on the rise, installing an anti-virus app on your smartphone or tablet today is more crucial than ever to help protect your…
Regardless of whether you are a small or large business, IPR has custom hosted IT solutions to meet your businesses specific IT data security needs and requirements. Moreover, we have powerful shared data services that are easy to manage, and…
There are three main types of hackers: ideological (Anonymous is the most notable example); criminal (their motivation is primarily financial gain); and intellectual property (looking to steal data or trade secrets). When it comes to hackers, it’s important to understand their motivation to determine the…
The term ‘hackathon’ may sound intimidating, but it could be huge for your company. In case you’re not familiar with the idea, it was popularized by tech companies. Essentially, you pack a room full of engineers, programmers, and techies, get…
When migrating your IT infrastructure to the Cloud, it’s important to have a clear understanding of what the process entails to avoid mistakes and hiccups. The transition should be as smooth as possible. Here are 5 major challenges to be…
7 Preventative Measures For Avoiding A Data Breach With data breaches making headlines regularly, consumers are losing confidence in the privacy of their personal data. Recent incidents with Anthem, JP Morgan, Home Depot and Target are adding fuel to…
Last week, it was revealed that a huge security flaw in the world’s most popular internet browsers has left users vulnerable to hacks when visiting websites. The bug, known as ‘Freak’ (‘Factoring Attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys’) has left around 5…
This year is shaping up to be the “year of the data breach”. Almost every week this year so far, a company data breach has made the news. We decided to put together a list of the worst company data…
This year, companies are moving their entire IT networks to the cloud, making it a corporate computing model. The cloud is no longer just a term techies use—it’s also an adopted business term. Businesses in need of a company-wide operating…
According to internet security firm, Kaspersky Lab, hackers have stolen $1 billion in what appears to be one the largest bank heists ever. On Sunday (2/16), Kaspersky reported they have discovered how hackers managed to steal close to $1 billion…
During the first blizzard of 2015, Nantucket, the Massachusetts resort island (roughly 35 miles south of Cape Cod) lost all of its electrical power. It was one of the areas hardest hit by the New England blizzard. We all know…
A Message From our CEO, Tami Fratis We all know about the cloud because all of our email is stored somewhere out in the cloud for some period of time. Remember the pictures your daughter sent of her baby or…
Did you know we are more at risk for cyber-attacks than domestic terrorism? In fact, according to a report by Sky News, the number of cyber-attacks affecting federal networks alone is up two-thirds since 2009 — from 30,000 to 50,000.1…
With the holidays right around the corner, it’s time to turn nostalgic over the past year (it flew by!) and hopeful about the promise of a new year. In early October Gartner analysts predicted their top strategic technology trends for…
As a business leader, you are always looking for new growth strategies and improvement. In the era of big data, disruptive technologies and data breaches, the hurdles you undoubtedly handle daily are taxing and may require the skills of a…
You may find yourself uttering those very words with all the publicity data breaches have received lately. The alarming statistics are in and they don’t lie. In a recent study by the Ponemon Institute, it was found that 43 percent…
IPR corporate folks will be joining our colleagues over in Wilmington when we relocate on July 28th. We look forward to this opportunity to work shoulder-to-shoulder with our peers and open the lines of communication further. The positive benefits of…
Does it seems like your job as CIO gets harder every day? It’s no wonder, with new frustrations cropping up all the time. Where do your headaches rank in the list below? Did we even capture them all? When you…
Have your IT operations grown in fits and starts, leaving you with a crazy mix of networks, systems, and storage devices that are impossible to manage? Does it feel like you need new hardware every time you turn around? Are…
We are thrilled to announce that IPR’s Chief Financial Officer Sean Meenan has been named a finalist in the 2014 CFO of the Year Award Program, co-sponsored by the Philadelphia Business Journal and Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business. Nominees…
At IPR’s most recent Thought Leadership Roundtable Forum, held at the beginning of this month, leading chief information officers (CIOs) and other top IT executives came together over lunch to discuss the transformation going on in IT today, sharing success…
Talk about firing on all cylinders. IPR was out in the world in big way this week, co-hosting a panel on fiber optic broadband with the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce, bringing together leading women executives for an inaugural Women’s…
Target’s CEO Gregg Steinhafel stepped down Monday after 35 years with the company, following a security breach last November in which hackers illegally accessed personal information from as many as 70 million customers. In the wake of the breach, the…
Continuing a tradition started last fall, IPR International today hosted its third CIO Thought Leadership Roundtable Forum. This ongoing series of events draws together top IT executives from across industries to share ideas, insights, and challenges they face as they…
“Cloud computing has revolutionized data sharing and storage, setting a new standard for collaboration around the world,” proclaimed leading investment banking firm Goldman Sachs as part of its 2013 Annual Report. In its roundup of the “25 Ways We Saw…
IPR International is pleased to announce receipt of its Service Organization Controls SSAE 16 (SOC 2) Report for the period July 1, 2013, through December 31, 2013. The report documents full compliance with all audit requirements relevant to the security,…
Earlier this week, engineers at Google Security and Finnish cybersecurity company Codenomicon independently discovered a software bug called Heartbleed, and in the span of just a few days, it has become one of the hottest topics on the internet. Heartbleed…
If you’re a CTO who feels like that’s the message you’ve been getting, you’re not alone. One of the participants at a recent IPR Thought Leadership Roundtable event said something that had almost everyone else in the room nodding in…
Today’s post picks up on one of the items in the Top 10 list we ran earlier this week highlighting the headaches plaguing CTOs at today’s mid-sized firms. That post grew out of a recent “Jeffersonian” Dinner IPR hosted as…
If you’re like the CTOs of most mid-sized companies, you remember all too well what it was like to be the CTO of a small company. For many, those days aren’t that long ago. But what may have worked then…
Calling the healthcare CIO’s plate full is an understatement, to say the least. Between the HITECH Act supporting the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), the multiple requirements involved as part of the three Meaningful Use stages identified for EHR…
From this website to our marketing collateral and everywhere in between, you may have noticed that IPR has a fresh new look and feel. It’s part of a comprehensive effort to redefine IPR’s brand and implement an aggressive marketing strategy…