Insights
The cyber landscape never stops shifting – and neither should your perspective. Our Insights bring you expert commentary, thought leadership and practical guidance on the issues shaping the alternative investments sector. Stay ahead of regulators, satisfy investors, and strengthen your resilience with analysis from the team that knows your world best.
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How Real Estate Investors can Benefit From Cybersecurity
Real estate investors and operators are quickly coming to learn the need of cybersecurity. With digital transformation only accelerating in the era of Covid, more and more assets and private information are being safeguarded online. At the same time, cyber threats have been increasing at a monumental rate, necessitating adjustments and investments across all industries…
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Cybersecurity News: The Impacts of Cryptocurrency on Cybersecurity Within Your Firm
A cryptocurrency is a digital asset that operates as a medium of exchange. It can be used to make electronic payments, and utilizes a form of cryptography in order to secure payments, as well as a distributed, immutable ledger for tracking ownership and transactions. As the popularity of cryptocurrencies continues to expand, questions linger as…
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Service Spotlight: Cybersecurity Readiness
Cybersecurity readiness allows your firm to properly respond to cyber threats and online malicious parties. Typically, by following regulatory procedures and shoring-up your cybersecurity policies, online threats can be mitigated throughout your firm. Firms may struggle to achieve cybersecurity readiness for a variety of reasons, but with the right team behind your cybersecurity programs, cybersecurity…
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Service Spotlight: Cybersecurity’s Role in Business Continuity
A Business Continuity Plan or BCP brings a great deal of security to your firm. Both personnel and assets can be better protected with a continuity plan in place. BCP’s allow for your firm to function throughout emergency situations. Drawbridge considers a BCP to be more important than ever in a growing threat landscape. A…
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Cybersecurity News: How to Avoid Phishing Attacks
Phishing attacks are a popular method of cyber-attack typically used by malicious parties who seek to gain personal information. Usually, a malicious party will employ phishing for the sake of gaining account credentials of any kind, be it an email address or passwords for company websites. Successful phishing attempts have led to complete network access…
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Service Spotlight: How Cybersecurity Training for Employees Reduces Phishing
For those firms with secure and effective cybersecurity procedures, a whole other necessity can sometimes be overlooked. Employee training is a key feature of a successful security program, and for firms protecting private data and assets, it is especially important that employees are aware of how to notice and handle potential breaches. It is the…
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Market Spotlight: Enhancing Cybersecurity for Hedge Funds
There has been increased focus on cybersecurity for hedge funds within the last several years. This has only been exacerbated by the Coronavirus Pandemic, which has seen the need for industries worldwide to focus on cybersecurity procedures during an unprecedented transfer to online business. This need has caused regulators to take further interest in cybersecurity…
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Service Spotlight: Microsoft Office and Cybersecurity
Cloud-based data environments have become more and more common for firms throughout the world, especially throughout the global pandemic. Elements such as remote work, as well as a push for businesses to digitize, have brought with it both benefits and challenges. These challenges, while numerous and ever-growing, can be mitigated with the right cybersecurity protocols. When utilizing…
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Market Spotlight: Family Office Investor Cybersecurity with Drawbridge
Whether your family office investment firm is single or multifamily, complex cyberthreats are lurking around every corner. This is true of any firm handling private information and assets. It is your duty to have the right solutions in place to mitigate cybersecurity threats. Data breaches and cyberattacks of any kind can be damaging to a…
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Service Spotlight: The Rise in Data Breaches and Data Privacy
Throughout the global COVID-19 pandemic, there have been an increasing number of cyber-attacks and breaches occurring across numerous industries. These attacks may in part be due to the need for industries to adapt to an online landscape, but there have also been prevailing advances to the technologies that malicious parties use to conduct their attacks.…
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Cybersecurity News: How Cybersecurity Can Future Proof Businesses
With growing cyberattacks throughout the world, and across numerous industries, it has become more important than ever for businesses to defend themselves. This defense can take many forms, but primarily, businesses would do well to secure and bolster cybersecurity procedures. It is particularly true of businesses advancing further into the technology industry that cybersecurity should…
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Service Spotlight: Portfolio Companies and Identifying Threats with Drawbridge
As noted by Drawbridge’s experienced cybersecurity team, portfolio companies and their Private Equity / Venture Capital owners find themselves at heightened risk for cybersecurity breaches of all kinds These cyber attacks, which are often costly and disruptive to business, are becoming more frequent in recent years, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is important to…
