08/18/2017

The Security Threat Hiding in Your Staff Directory

Hackers are adept at taking advantage of publicly available personal information

Is your staff directory accessible online? Maybe it shouldn’t be, according to a cybersecurity expert speaking over the weekend at the ASAE Annual Meeting. The issue comes down to security—and the fact that hackers may be savvy enough to connect the dots. Sometimes, the smallest disclosure of information can become a cybersecurity risk in the wrong hands.

And not just because your organization’s technology—whether software, hardware or external infrastructure—has built-in security holes. Naturally, it will, and it may not be possible to avoid those problems.

But the real issue may be that your association is allowing an outsider to connect the dots, and those connections could be used in a cyberattack, a case of identity theft or something that could be best described as the “big kill.”

Please click here to read the complete article from Associations Now.