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A tradition at the beginning of the year is to look ahead and plan. You look at the year behind you, consider the lessons learned, and then you make bold predictions for yourself. In the security world, we hold true to these traditions, predicting what’s in store for us next year from hackers, scammers, and [...]

VIDEO REPLAY: Concerns for Small Businesses (with Neal O’Farrell)

Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● May 18, 2011

Continuing this week’s attention to  National Small Business Week, IDGuardian has stepped back into its video archives to present a special video replay of Neal O’Farrell and his advice for small businesses and strategies against identity theft, credit fraud, and security breaches. These audio and video columns can be listened and or viewed to in [...]

Small Businesses Face Threats Beyond an Erratic Economy

Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● May 16, 2011

To bring attention to this week being National Small Business Week, I have put together this blogpost concerning a recent study from Javelin Strategy & Research. This report takes a long, hard look at the impact of identity theft on small businesses; and the news isn’t encouraging. The Javelin study of more than 5,000 small [...]

Weekly News Wrap-Up for 18 June 2010

Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● June 18, 2010

Can your business have its identity stolen? Identity theft is usually thought of as an individual, personal crime. While businesses often end up picking up the costs, thieves rarely focus on businesses as the target of their cloning. That’s changing. Identity theft is based on impersonation – stealing or otherwise acquiring information about a real [...]

Identity Fraud Fact: Little Guy is Big Target

Posted by: Matt Hines in: ● March 1, 2010

Banking and financial services providers may continue to feel the biggest pinch in the wallet based on the continued proliferation of the worldwide electronic identity theft epidemic, but the people who are most commonly seeing their personas and credit histories hijacked are at the other end of the spectrum. When Javelin Strategy & Research releases [...]

The IDGuardian Podcast: Episode #007 — Concerns with Small Businesses

Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● February 17, 2010

Welcome to the IDGuardian Podcast. These audio and video columns can be listened and or viewed to in a variety of ways: Through the blog via the media player found in this blogpost Through a manual download by clicking on the “Download” link By subscribing through iTunes This episode features Neal O’Farrell, a nationally recognized [...]


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