Is your investor website vulnerable to being hacked? Do you know if your web design team has a firewall in place protecting your website? Most web designers use frameworks like WordPress to build websites, but they often don’t know much about managing the behind the scenes technology that powers the website. I used to be … Read more
Stop sharing wiring instructions over email. One of our early clients lost $200,000 in his first syndication to wire fraud. Another syndicator I know lost 50k to the same hack. Here’s the thing – emails can be spoofed. And bad actors get better at it day after day. You’ve probably seen emails coming from Microsoft … Read more
Stop sharing sensitive files over email directly Asking small investment companies to not share investor data over email is tough – but when it comes to documents it’s a good practice to use a service specifically for sharing them securely – think Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. In the first part of this series, we fixed … Read more
Protect your passwords The problem TLDW: Old passwords that you’ve been using for a few years or more are very likely available to everyone in the world for free. Go here or here and type in your email to see which of your passwords are compromised, then follow instructions below. While it is possible that all of your investor’s … Read more