SOUTHFIELD—A unit of the Southfield-based managed services provider Secure-24 has purchased Symmetry Holding Inc., a Brookfield, Wis.-based provider of SAP managed services. Secure-24 is a subsidiary of the Tokyo-based telecommunications firm NTT Communications Corp. Secure-24 officials said Symmetry possesses extensive expertise in SAP managed services, which it delivers to large enterprise clients in diverse industries
ROYAL OAK - Ransomware raised its ugly head again recently when a Florida city was forced to pay hackers $600,000 to get all its files decrypted. It's called Ransomware and its just one of the major threats companies and governments face today. Plante Moran Principal, and former Chief Information Security Officer for the State Of
WASHINGTON DC - You open your browser to look at the web. Do you know who is looking back at you? Over a recent week of web surfing, I peered under the hood of Google Chrome and found it brought along a few thousand friends. Shopping, news and even government sites quietly tagged my browser to let
RIVIERA BEACH, FLA - A Florida city agreed to pay $600,000 in ransom to hackers who took over its computer system, the latest in thousands of attacks worldwide aimed at extorting money from governments and businesses. The Riviera Beach City Council voted unanimously this week to pay the hackers' demands, believing the Palm Beach suburb
ROYAL OAK - Tamara Shoemaker, Director, Detroit Mercy Center for Cyber Security & Intel Studies, updates the CyberPatriot summer camps offered across Michigan this summer for middle and high school students that want to learn more about cybersecurity careers. https://soundcloud.com/mike-brennan-841872555/e174-tamara-shoemaker-cyberpatriot-camps
TROY – The former Trivalent Group, now part of Rehmann, has been named North American Partner of the Year by WatchGuard Technologies, a provider of network security and intelligence. The Partner of the Year award honors partners that have exhibited exceptional performance over the past year as part of the WatchGuardONE Program, while providing the
DETROIT - A new survey shows 77 percent of organizations in transport and automotive markets have been hit with IoT-focused cyberattacks during the past twelve months. Of those that experienced a cyberattack, 91 percent had an impact on the organization, including operational downtime and compromised customer data and/or brand or reputational damage. Perhaps most alarming,
DETROIT - Middle School and High School students are welcome to register for CyberPatriot Summer camps held at several locations around Michigan. Through the AFA CyberCamp program, this camp consists of 20-hours of curriculum designed to be completed over five 1/2 days, with the fifth day serving as a day of mini-Competition. All sessions are
ROYAL OAK - Richard Stiennon, a cybersecurity expert and author of There Will Be Cyber War, joins M2 Techcast to discuss all the latest cyber threats including the ransomware attack that crippled the government networks in the City of Baltimore. https://soundcloud.com/mike-brennan-841872555/e172-cybersecurity-richard-stiennon
EAST LANSING – Economist Patrick Anderson in May presented findings at an International conference that demonstrates the potential for substantial financial damages for business worldwide from the mismanagement and misuse of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning data. The findings, which describes four main categories of damages resulting from improper implementation of AI principles, suggests a
