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Cyber for Plan Sponsors 07.17.2019

Cyber Attackers Can Steal from Your Older Files Too

You may think that cyber attackers are only going to go after your current information. However, just as small businesses are targets because they do not protect data as well as large companies, older information…
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Cyber Attackers Can Steal from Your Older Files Too
Cyber for Plan Sponsors 07.16.2019

Data Breach Costs Often Felt 2 or More Years After Hack

Cyber attacks can cause large amounts of sensitive and valuable data to be exposed via hackers. But cyber attack effects do not end as soon as the data is exposed soon after the attack. The…
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Data Breach Costs Often Felt 2 or More Years After Hack
Cyber for Plan Sponsors 07.11.2019

The U.S. has Lost $1.6 Trillion Due to Data Breaches Since 2008

Since 2008, the United States has lost an overall amount of more than $1.6 trillion due to data breaches alone. Even these figures may be on the low end of the real number lost, however, as…
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The U.S. has Lost $1.6 Trillion Due to Data Breaches Since 2008
ERISA 07.09.2019

Plan Fiduciary Breach Complaints Rise as Markets Fall

The biggest thing that plan fiduciaries can do to prevent claims of fiduciary breach is to implement and follow prudent fiduciary policies, procedures, and practices. This would theoretically cover issues involving costs, conflicts, and due…
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Plan Fiduciary Breach Complaints Rise as Markets Fall
ERISA 07.02.2019

Pension Professionals: Simplify the ERISA Bonding Process

Managing employee benefit plans seems to keep getting more and more complicated every year. Fiduciary duties remain opaque and retirement plans and benefits have morphed over time. One of the more confusing processes for the…
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Pension Professionals: Simplify the ERISA Bonding Process
ERISA 07.01.2019

NYC Law Firm Releases 2019 Fiduciary Guide

It is hard for a fiduciary to determine what exactly would be a breach of their fiduciary duty to a retirement plan. That is where New York based law firm Cohen & Buckmann, P.C.’s 2019…
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NYC Law Firm Releases 2019 Fiduciary Guide
Cyber for Plan Sponsors 06.26.2019

The Fiduciary Duty of Protecting Against Cyber Attacks

Under ERISA, fiduciaries are subject to the prudent expert standard of care, in which they have to act with diligence, care, and skill under the circumstances as professionals their field would. They also owe a…
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The Fiduciary Duty of Protecting Against Cyber Attacks
Cyber for Plan Sponsors 06.26.2019

Protections Against Cyber Attacks & Data Breaches

Cyber attacks seem to happen every week these days. As those bigger companies beef up their cybersecurity to prevent hacks, cyber attackers are increasingly likely to go after the less protected companies which ends up…
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Protections Against Cyber Attacks & Data Breaches
Cyber for Plan Sponsors 06.26.2019

What is a Data Breach?

Retirement plans are becoming more and more vulnerable to cyber attacks as the number of attacks and methods of breach increase. But what exactly is a data breach and what are cyber attackers after? Data…
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What is a Data Breach?