At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference in New Orleans, RoundTable is co-hosting a booth with Pronto Marketing, who specializes in website hosting and AdWords management services.

RoundTable's Vice President of Technology Strategy, Joshua Peskay, will be there to lead two sessions.

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The Question

One the questions we get often at RoundTable is from organizations asking whether they should get or increase their cybersecurity insurance.

This post is meant to provide as clear of a response as we can provide to that question.

We take security seriously at RoundTable and we want to share some safe email tips with you to help avoid security breaches or other incidents that may disrupt your work.

It’s been an amazing year, and together with our clients, we’ve all gone through a lot of changes and growth. One of our core values here at RoundTable is “continuous improvement,” and we want to take a moment to communicate to you some of the goals that we’ve set for ourselves to improve and serve you at the highest level possible.

If you have been following the news, you have no doubt heard about the latest cybersecurity vulnerabilities that were discovered called, respectively, Meltdown and Spectre.

At present, RoundTable’s recommendation is you follow normal guidelines for cybersecurity. Keep your systems patched with up-to-to-date software. This includes ALL software and all devices.

Beyond that, there is nothing else actionable we recommend at this time. We will continue to monitor the situation and will provide updates if we think there is something actionable that falls outside standard recommendations.

What is Phishing?
‘Phishing’ is a method of fraud that involves tricking the victim into doing something could be volunteering information such as account names and passwords, wiring funds, or clicking links or opening attachments that have a payload of malicious software.

Yes and no. The older tool (Google Drive for Mac/PC) is being replaced by Backup and Sync, which functions much the same way as the existing Google Drive for Mac/PC.

The earlier sync client, Drive for Mac/PC, will no longer be supported by Google as of December 11, 2017 and will be discontinued and cease to function as of March 12, 2018.

As another alternative as of September 26th, 2017, Google has made a new service called “Drive File Stream” available to G Suite (formerly Google Apps) customers.

What is this exactly?
Beginning October 1, 2017, Google’s Chrome browser will show a “Not secure” warning on any website where visitors enter text into a form on any page that is not encrypted. This can include things like “Contact Us” forms, newsletter subscriptions or even simple search.

We are currently following updates about a new ransomware attack using a variant malicious code known as “Petya”. This is part of a new wave of multi-vector ransomware attacks that some are calling “ransomworm” which takes advantage of timely exploits.

It’s a ransomware attack with the ability to self-propagate. It also uses exploits from the April Shadow Brokers dump of NSA hacking tools. The WannaCry attack began on Friday, May 12th and spread rapidly through Europe and the rest of the world, affecting millions of systems.