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EU’s GDPR or at a state level, such as New York State’s NYCR 500, the pressures are
growing. Having an MSSP partner like Herjavec Group can help prove due care and
due diligence for these and many other regulations.

What About Executive Level Training?
Robert explained that “this year, we have also introduced an executive training practice,
led by our VP of Incident Response, Matt Anthony. Our training initiatives support
employee security awareness and also provide insight on how to build a security
framework and incident response plan. These training sessions typically part of
leverage our IR retainer hours or are orchestrated as a separate consulting
engagement.” As most breaches are a result of poor executive guidance, the regulatory
pressures and the availability of this kind of “C” level training program could not be
better timed.

Do You Ever Guarantee No Breaches To Your Clients?
“The adversary is always changing and if we don’t start from a strong foundation, we’re
going to always be playing catch-up. We explain this to our clients, they listen and
when they implement our suggestions, it makes it easier for us, in partnership to detect
and remediate some of the nastiest and most
innovative attacks. WannaCry, for example, can’t
get past our system and we’ll keep working to stay
ahead of these kinds of innovative threats. This
year, binding ransomware to a worm was a new
idea, next year something else will be done that
seems so innovative – we must be ready and that’s
why a strong foundation and our ability to cross
correlate threats across different markets with
constant improvements to HG Analytics makes us
an innovative player in the MSSP space.,” he said,
“You will get breached. There’s nothing you can do
to prevent it. Smart money is on how quickly you
can contain it.”

It's refreshing to hear from an expert in the industry
who is also so honest about the situation. Many
start-ups, whom I meet with at various shows –
RSA, BlackHat, etc. always tell me ‘my new technology will stop all the latest breaches’
When I ask them how they tell me ‘it’s proprietary’ – trust me, they tell me. Yet
breaches are exponential. Just looking at PrivacyRights.org we see that there’s been
more than one billion records breached (at the time of this writing it’s 1,073,490,127) in
the US alone, from 7,730 DATA BREACHES made public since 2005. As Robert
Herjavec attested – they will keep happening, the question is – how fast will you react?

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