IASDR 2017 Guest Speaker
Mark Hallerberg is Dean and Professor of Public Management and Political Economy at the Hertie School of Governance, a private public policy School in Berlin, Germany. His research focuses on fiscal governance, tax competition, financial crises, public sector innovation, and European Union politics.
He previously held academic positions at Emory University, where he maintains an affiliation with the political science department, as well as at the University of Pittsburgh and Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his PhD from UCLA in 1995.
Currently, there are many threats to small businesses, from simple employee mishandling of sensitive data to hackers attempting to breach systems for consumer data. In this paper, I attempt to review what threats businesses are currently facing, current challenges to implementing a security program, and possible ways to implement a security solution.
Keywords: Information Security, Cyber Security, Least Privilege, Risk Mitigation, Small Business, Trojan, Phishing, Malware, Ransomware, Skimmers, Security Program