How to Protect Your Clients from Cyber Threats with Derek Reveron & John E. Savage

February 9, 2024

WealthAbility for CPAs #116 – Join Tom Wheelwright in this episode as he discusses “Security in the Cyber Age” with authors Derek Reveron and John E. Savage, both professors and experts in cybersecurity.

Derek Reveron is a Chair and Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I., who specializes in strategy development, non-state security challenges, intelligence, and U.S. defense policy. An Wang Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Brown University, John E. Savage, also joins the conversation, and has served as a Jefferson Science Fellow in the U.S. State Department, a Fellow at the EastWest Institute, and as a member of the Rhode Island Cybersecurity Commission.

Discover ways to protect your clients, yourself, and your tax business from cyber threats, gain insight on proactive safety measures, as well as invaluable tools and organizations to protect you like cyber insurance.

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SHOW NOTES:

00:00 – Intro
06:57 – The Weak Link in Cyber Security
10:18 – Proactive Safety Measures
14:16 – Effective Tools to Help You
18:32 – Ways to Protect Your Data
22:11 – Information Sharing Analysis Centers (ISACs)
24:10 – Risks of FinCEN & Corporate Transparency Act
27:50 – Cyber Insurance, ISACs, WISP
31:08 – Final Thoughts

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Books: Security in the Cyber Age: An Introduction to Policy and Technology, Models of Computation, The Mystical Machine, The Complexity of Computing