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Six Tips to Make Sure You Aren’t Poaching Intellectual Property Along with Employees

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After all, if you can entice an MVP from another company to enlist in your ranks, you’ll deprive the competition of a key asset while taking immediate advantage of your new hire’s previous training and experience. Best of all, this kind of hiring is perfectly legal, right? Well yes… except when it’s not.

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The Firewall Is Dead – What Can Businesses Do To Protect And Secure Their Brands?

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It doesn’t, however, change the fact that firewalls are still only perimeter protection devices and are limited to applying security policies against visible packets that travel through them. In other words, firewalls are only about as good as traffic cops when a security threat requires a well-coordinated SWAT team these days.

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Cyber Security At The Start

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Typically, the idea of cyber security comes later down the road after a company compromise or when the organization is filing for compliance & regulations. Yet cyber security should be a crucial consideration for entrepreneurs during the initial steps of creating their vision. Bring on a security-conscious CTO at the beginning.

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13 Critical Small Business Legal Requirements to Start a Business

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You’ll need the EIN to pay taxes for your business, apply for licenses and permits, open a bank account, and hire and pay employees. Secure your intellectual property. Intellectual property (IP) is anything created by the human intellect that’s protected by the law from unauthorized use by other people.

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When Security Can Become Your Business Differentiator, Everybody Wins

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by Mark Seward, VP of security solutions at Anomali. And this is certainly true in the cyber security sector. Many of the most exciting and innovative solutions to current cyber security problems are being produced by small and medium sized businesses. Cyber insurance is often prohibitively costly.

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Three Ways To Prevent Data Loss And Strengthen Cyber Security

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All the training in the world won’t help if employees don’t adopt better password and data security habits in their daily operations. Consider putting a formal cyber security policy in place. It may be a good idea to prep your management team prior to rolling out the general company policy on cyber security.

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The Five Most Common Legal Mistakes New Companies Make

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As a sole proprietor, it’s also more difficult to secure loans or investments. Intellectual Property, the core of the business, is not protected. Your intellectual property is the backbone of your business. If you overlook this important element, it could cost your business gravely in the future.