{"id":8166,"date":"2018-08-27T15:28:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T15:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naylor.com\/associationadviser\/?p=8166"},"modified":"2020-01-15T15:23:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T15:23:53","slug":"cybersecurity-risk-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naylor.com\/associationadviser\/cybersecurity-risk-management\/","title":{"rendered":"#ASAE 2018 Cybersecurity Risk Management: Steps to Protect Your Association"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being an insurance broker at the ASAE 2018 annual conference, I was drawn to the Express Talk on Cybersecurity Risk Management to see what the speakers would have to say on the subject. In my experience, a lot of nonprofits and associations are under the assumption that a cyberattack or cyber breach cannot happen to them \u2013 or even affect them. I can assure them that this thought process is very far from the truth, being in insurance and dealing with cyber policies daily. In fact, I would almost go as far as to say that cyber-attacks are becoming more of a certainty than a possibility.<\/p>\n

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Despite all of this, nonprofits and associations are still balking at the idea of purchasing a cyber liability & network security policy to protect themselves, as well as not taking the necessary measures needed to protect their data as well as the data of the third parties they work with. The bottom line is that any nonprofit\/association with a computer can be the subject of a cyberattack.<\/p>\n

In this short presentation about cybersecurity, the speakers did a great job showing the audience how easily it is for a hacker to get into an organization\u2019s system, take control of their data and steal their information. While times have definitely changed and the tools for hacking are more sophisticated, they pointed out that there are a lot of layers of defense available to prevent such attacks. The steps to protecting your network can and should<\/em> include:<\/p>\n