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In April, the Georgia Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives (GACCE) Board of Directors agreed to extend its partnership with DelPhi Communications, which will include the development of a fully redesigned website and additional Web features and capabilities to enhance GACCE operations online.
Tiffany Fulmer Ott, Executive Director of GACCE, states, “We are thrilled to continue our partnership with Brent and his team with DelPhi Communications. We will be launching an updated website soon, and we’re proud to be working with DelPhi now and in the years to come.”
Further, DelPhi has renewed its Executive Partner Program that will provide financial assistance to those chambers of commerce who are current or new DelPhi clients, as well as active members of GACCE. This partnership has now surpassed 12 years and continually strengthens as both DelPhi and GACCE work together to provide the best online services for its member chambers. “Call it building a legacy. It’s been humbling for sure and I’m proud of our relationship with GACCE,” says Brent Seyler, CEO of DelPhi Communications.
For more information on DelPhi Communications and the Executive Partnership Program, CLICK HERE.
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DelPhi CEO, Brent Seyler, will be a panelist for the Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber's Lunch & Learn webinar on Cybersecurity on March 29th, 2022 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM. The GAHCC Small Business University (Small Biz U) is an informative panel series that provides our community with the resources they need to build a stronger business.
Atlanta, GA – Wednesday, March 23, 2022 – The Georgia Chamber Foundation as a service to its member investors looks to inform and increase business cybersecurity awareness in the days to come.
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William Shakespeare once wrote, “The eyes are the window to your soul.” If that’s true, then I’d say technology is definitely a window (and door) to everything else.
With all of the recent cyberattacks, continuously stolen customer data, the latest TikTok® revelations, Log4j, cyberthreats from Russia and China, and a host of other alarming issues, I felt it necessary to share some important information to at least try to keep you safer than if you simply did nothing to protect your identity. I also share this information because I recently had a couple of disturbing discussions with clients that left me baffled to say the least. The first discussion was with a CEO of a small business who didn’t know where her emails were hosted and had no idea how to login to the host account. The other discussion was with a client who didn’t know where the company's Domain was registered and the login credentials were nowhere to be found.
That said, I thought this would be the perfect time to share some things you can do to keep yourself, your family, and your business safer. Maybe start with just a couple and go from there....
1) COLLECT AND STORE YOUR INFORMATION
Collect and store all of your accounts, including account #’s, usernames, passwords, pins, and URL’s. Make an additional copy and store it on an external drive, like a thumb drive, and place it somewhere safe and secure. If you own a business or in a management or operations position, include the proper steps for retrieving or relinquishing important account information within your company Emergency Preparedness Checklist.
2) TAKE THE EXTRA STEP TO LOGIN
Enable 2-step authentications whenever available.
3) CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS
Change your passwords regularly. The rule-of-thumb for changing passwords is every 3 - 4 months. Be sure to pay attention to strength meters and use various character types. Also, do not to use the same password for every account. Don't forget to update and verify your contact information for successful retrieval of your usernames and passwords as well.
4) KEEP BROWSERS CLEAN
Clear your browser’s history often and do not “allow” your browser to save any of your passwords.
5) KEEP YOUR DEBIT CARD OFFLINE
Do not store debit card information and only use credit cards for online transactions. Also, be sure to sign out (log out) of an account once you’re done handling your business.
6) CONSIDER A VPN
If you frequent the internet, consider subscribing to and using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to make it more difficult to track your activities and steal your data.
7) UNDERSTAND COOKIES BEFORE YOU "ACCEPT" THEM
A cookie is a small piece of text (code) sent to your browser by the websites you visit and helps those sites remember information about you, what you viewed, clicked on, etc. Also, just an FYI, cookies do occupy space on your computer. If there are enough of them stored over a long period of time, they could slow down your speed.
8) DELETE TIKTOK®
Delete your TikTok® account. Period. While most marketing companies state the major trend in 2022 is that TikTok® will dominate Social Media, it’s because they’re capitalizing on another revenue stream. They really don't care about your data. If they did, they wouldn't push TikTok®. It amazes me how many Americans are fine with using an app from China and freely handing them all the data they want and need. TikTok® captures facial and voice patterns and it was recently released that there are 13 untrackable third-party connections to the app that are capturing and sharing your data.
References:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/tiktok-personal-data-study
9) STOP RESPONDING TO QUESTIONS
Stop answering those random questions you see posted on Social Media unless you personally know the individual. It's for the purpose of obtaining possible answers to those "secret questions" in order to gain access to accounts.
10) CONTROL YOUR CLICKS
Stop arbitrarily opening emails that seem suspicious. Just delete them and don't think twice about it. Remember, curiousity killed the cat and it could kill your data too.
If you have any questions or need any assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us. Our clients will tell you that we go "above and beyond the call" and we'll be more than happy to help you as well.
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