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Brad Deflin: August 10, 2025
For generations, family offices and ultra-high net worth families have mastered the art of estate planning — preserving wealth, ensuring succession, and safeguarding legacy.
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Total Digital Security: July 22, 2025
Since 2013, Total Digital Security has been dedicated to a singular mission: providing cybersecurity for the world's most successful families and the...
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Brad Deflin: June 15, 2025
In the world of family offices and the ultra-high-net-worth individuals they serve, a new reality has taken hold. It’s a reality defined by a "dual...
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Brad Deflin: June 08, 2025
June is here, and we're thrilled to share some of the extraordinary progress we're making behind the scenes at Total Digital Security, particularly...
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Brad Deflin: April 11, 2025
This month, I want to bring your attention to a sophisticated and remarkably successful scam that has expanded globally and is now targeting...
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Brad Deflin: February 20, 2025
Since 2013, Total Digital Security (TDS) has been dedicated to protecting individuals, families, and businesses from cyber threats. Over the years,...
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Total Digital Security: February 07, 2025
It's officially tax-season and trusted advisors everywhere will be reaching out to their clients soon. It's also a great time to add value to your...
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Brad Deflin: January 07, 2025
Recently, I embarked on a personal project with two clear and distinct objectives:
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Brad Deflin: December 23, 2024
Year-End Letter - 2024 Navigating Cybersecurity: Reflections on 2024 and Insights for 2025
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Brad Deflin: December 06, 2024
Reflecting on Change and Progress
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Brad Deflin: November 26, 2024
In 2013, I started TDS based on “The Democratization of Cyber Risk” where consumer-based cybercrime damages would eventually surpass those targeting...
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Brad Deflin: September 09, 2024
We've noticed a new twist in phishing scams that we wanted to bring to your attention. You may well have seen it yourself. In our view, it's a sign...
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Brad Deflin: August 21, 2024
In a significant cybersecurity breach, the National Public Data company — a firm aggregating and storing vast amounts of personal information — was...
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Total Digital Security: May 20, 2024
Brad Deflin tells the Total Digital Security story in this Q&A from May 16th, 2024.
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Brad Deflin: April 25, 2024
At Total Digital Security (TDS,) we’ve consistently avoided the tactic of ‘selling fear.’ Our approach has always emphasized:
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Total Digital Security: February 18, 2024
In February's blog, we delve deep into the core values of Total Digital Security, encapsulated in our commitment to provide an ecosystem ensuring...
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Total Digital Security: January 22, 2024
Embrace a Secure New Year with ControlOne
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Brad Deflin: December 19, 2023
From our December 2023 CyberAdvisor Letter
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Brad Deflin: October 09, 2023
We've been dropping hints about an exciting innovation in collaboration with our partners, and now, it's time to lift the curtain. I hope you will...
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Total Digital Security: June 21, 2023
This is a fact; digital technology drives change like nothing else. So, correspondingly, adaptation and evolution are as crucial to survival and...
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Total Digital Security: April 12, 2023
Cybercrime is one of your top risks of loss and inconvenience and continues growing exponentially. We suggest it's time to privatize your internet -...
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Brad Deflin: March 08, 2023
First, LastPass since it's still #1 for FAQs this year. Here are the answers; yes, the hack was bad. Yes, you need to do something. Maybe, you should...
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Brad Deflin: January 15, 2023
I've been using LastPass since 2014 and have recommended the password manager to others for just as long. Even in light of the hacks in years past,...
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Brad Deflin: November 29, 2022
In October, we saw new clients with damages and a near miss of $16,000, $22,000, and $350,000. Losses in these cases are not suffered by businesses...
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Total Digital Security: October 05, 2022
From a podcast w/ Carrie Kerskie and Brad Deflin on Private Email, August 2022.
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Brad Deflin: August 18, 2022
I briefly mentioned this new scam in last month's CyberAdviser, and we continue to see more victims, so this is a special "heads-up."
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Brad Deflin: August 09, 2022
Cybercrime and online fraud continue to victimize the unaware and unprepared. In July, we saw various cases, the most severe being a $200,000 loss to...
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Total Digital Security: July 11, 2022
June 29th marked the iPhone's 15th anniversary. It's a moment marked by history and worth pondering.
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Total Digital Security: June 15, 2022
Total Digital Security is excited to announce a strategic partnership with Batten Safe.
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Total Digital Security: May 11, 2022
F-Secure this month announced an organizational change that separates their consumer and business cybersecurity lines. The consumer line of products...
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Total Digital Security: March 02, 2022
In February, we announced a strategic partnership with Red Five Security from Arlington, VA.
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Total Digital Security: February 03, 2022
Cybersecurity's Rule #1 Please, never do this!
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Brad Deflin: January 11, 2022
Total Digital Security provides privacy and cybersecurity solutions for private clients and their personal technology. We serve clients in over 40...
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Brad Deflin: December 19, 2021
Client article, Dec.17th,2021
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Total Digital Security: December 03, 2021
Values and beliefs in a world of change For some, the events of the last 20 years have compelled greater introspect and evaluation of their core...
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Total Digital Security: November 11, 2021
We're seeing a rash of sophisticated phishing schemes ensnaring even those that are aware and alert to such scams. As we mentioned in November's...
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Total Digital Security: October 21, 2021
In August, we said the time is nigh to say "Goodbye Google" and cleave more Big Tech from our lives. Then last month, we recommended saying "Hello...
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Brad Deflin: October 07, 2021
The leading provider of digital vaults is a Swiss firm, SecureSafe. SecureSafe's parent company is DSwiss, a secure electronic document storage...
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Brad Deflin: September 02, 2021
Here, we look at internet browsers and make a recommendation for optimal privacy and protection of your personal information.
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Total Digital Security: August 19, 2021
T-Mobile said yesterday that data from 40 million former clients and prospective clients plus 8 million current users had been breached.
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Brad Deflin: August 02, 2021
This month's CyberAdvisor covers these four main topics: Decentralizing from Big Tech Essential iPhone security Living with your VPN Hacking smart...
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Total Digital Security: July 22, 2021
We define the “Three Primary Attack Surfaces” as email, internet devices, and networks for cyber-fraud and online damages. It’s across these three...
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Total Digital Security: July 01, 2021
For iPhone and iPad security, we've always said these two things:
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Total Digital Security: June 21, 2021
Email is where over 85% of all cyber-related damages start. Over 90% of malware is delivered via email. In 2020, malware attacks increased by 358%....
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Total Digital Security: June 15, 2021
Most private clients and wealthy families are woefully unprepared for the massive cyber-related risks they face today. These individuals and groups...
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Brad Deflin: June 03, 2021
The top question for my inbox in May was, “How can this happen?” How can a computer virus take down the biggest fuel pipeline in the country? The...
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Total Digital Security: May 10, 2021
Home and office internet and Wi-Fi networks are inherently vulnerable and increasingly targeted by hackers. The recent T-Mobile breach started with...
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Brad Deflin: April 30, 2021
In late 2020 we began to see an emerging trend at TDS - new clients and others reported terrible experiences with cyberstalking and harassment. Our...
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Total Digital Security: April 19, 2021
Home and home office internet routers have become a major point of failure for privacy and digital security concerns. Routers are more vulnerable...
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Total Digital Security: April 05, 2021
The thing about cybersecurity is you have to defend successfully 100% of the time. The hacker, on the other hand, only has to succeed once. In other...
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Brad Deflin: March 05, 2021
These are frustrating times, with much to be frustrated about. Politicians failing us at every turn, rampant fraud in government services and relief...
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Brad Deflin: February 03, 2021
Last month's blog on "Information Weaponization and Warfare" received more attention than any since we began in 2014. I couldn't be more thrilled...
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Brad Deflin: January 13, 2021
It's taken me longer than usual to write this blog - the first of 2021. The last few weeks' events have been so unsettling and surreal that...
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Total Digital Security: November 17, 2020
Prevent Loss from Phishing and Spoofing Emails Anyone using email should be aware of phishing and spoofing emails. In many cases, these fraudulent...
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Total Digital Security: November 11, 2020
Digital Security Basics: Where You’re Vulnerable
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Brad Deflin: August 04, 2020
The dog days of August 2020 start fittingly enough with a hurricane named Isais, which in Spanish means "God Is My Salvation." In turn, salvation...
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Brad Deflin: July 03, 2020
Today marks the midpoint of 2020.. Looking at current conditions and thinking about the past six months, it's hard to conceive the range of...
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Brad Deflin: June 01, 2020
Threats and damages from email are spiking. Over the last 60 days, we've seen an increase of over 25% in the rate of new "email spoofing" cases. Some...
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Brad Deflin: May 04, 2020
Current events have been called by some, including yours truly, evidence that we are entering a historical age and new world order. If the notion is...
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Total Digital Security: April 17, 2020
I first met Mike Malatesta at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee last December. The YPO had invited me to present "Cybersecurity for Life" at...
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Brad Deflin: March 31, 2020
I started TDS in 2013 with a vision of significant change during our lifetimes.
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Brad Deflin: March 19, 2020
My friend Ted Bauman from Banyan Hill included "Managing the Risks of Working from Home" as a "Special Update" in his March Baumann Letter. Ted and I...
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Total Digital Security: March 08, 2020
From a presentation by Brad Deflin to a private investment management firm.
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Total Digital Security: January 22, 2020
The following transcript is from a presentation made to the Montana 9th Judicial District on June 7th, 2019 for CLE credits in technology. Charts and...
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Total Digital Security: January 17, 2020
What We Do Total Digital Security provides industry-leading cybersecurity solutions for protection from cybercrime and online risk. We do it by...
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Brad Deflin: November 22, 2019
Trusted advisors everywhere are reaching out to their clients this time of year. It's the season for checking-in, catching up, and sharing good...
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Total Digital Security: November 11, 2019
VPNs can be cranky for the user. They're impatient, sensitive, and unforgiving. Without some context and critical thought, they'll drive you crazy at...
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Brad Deflin: October 26, 2019
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Brad Deflin: October 02, 2019
This article originally appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of Family Office Magazine.
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Brad Deflin: August 29, 2019
"Digital Defense: Keeping your family safe online" is in its 5th year of publication. The paper started as a collaboration with Merrill Lynch in...
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Brad Deflin: August 05, 2019
In July, the Governor of Louisiana declared a state of emergency in response to a rash of cyberattacks against its schools. The declaration is the...
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Brad Deflin: June 25, 2019
The scourge of digital extortion continues to hit hard over the last few weeks since June's CyberAdvisor titled "Ransomware is Everywhere." You can't...
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Total Digital Security: May 27, 2019
Cybercrime damages in 2019 are expected to reach $1.5 trillion. By 2021, damages will reach as much as $6 trillion. That's a 4x in just the next two...
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Brad Deflin: April 26, 2019
In April 2018, I wrote: "Are the Russians in Your Router?" Then in May; "If Your Alexa Wears a Babushka." Nobody got the joke. Last Sunday's...
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Total Digital Security: April 15, 2019
RANE - the Risk Assessment Network Chief Marketing Officer, Greg Radner, interviews Total Digital Security CEO and Founder Brad Deflin, on "Improving...
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Brad Deflin: April 03, 2019
The Chicago-based firm Hillard Heintze is one of the leading security risk management companies in the world, and Steven Bova is Vice President for...
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Total Digital Security: March 18, 2019
The most useful tool for cybersecurity is encryption. But for many, sharing encrypted documents and files isn't affordable or simple enough for...
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Brad Deflin: March 11, 2019
An internet browser is like the main gate in and out of your digital life. Without controls and blocks for what comes in, and protection for what...
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Total Digital Security: March 06, 2019
Google's Threat Analysis Group reported a "severe vulnerability" in its Chrome browser. The vulnerability is actively being exploited in the wild,...
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Brad Deflin: March 05, 2019
F-Secure has won the "Best Protection" award by AV-Test for 2018. The win marks the sixth time winning the first place award since 2011. The...
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Brad Deflin: February 13, 2019
Cybercrime is big business. With costs estimated to be in the trillions of dollars annually by 2021 according to Microsoft and the World Economic...
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Total Digital Security: February 10, 2019
A safe password is defined as one that won't be hacked and yet is easy to remember. Here is a technique with some of your creativity that makes great...
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Brad Deflin: December 31, 2018
Six years ago this March and after 25 years working with Wall Street investment and banking firms, I started Total Digital Security. Risk management...
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Total Digital Security: December 17, 2018
The following article by Brad Deflin was coined "The Filter Bubble is Controlling Your Thoughts" by Ted Bauman, privacy guru at Banyan Hill in his...
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Brad Deflin: December 12, 2018
Sometimes explaining digital risk and cybersecurity takes imagination. For me, metaphors and analogies abound. Here's another one; think of advanced...
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Total Digital Security: November 22, 2018
Cybercrime statistics say over 80% of all successful breaches start with an email. Over 90% of new customers that come to us as a result of a cyber...
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Brad Deflin: October 24, 2018
A VPN shields your online activities from the outside, including on public WiFi networks. The encryption and tunneling features of a VPN reduce the...
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Brad Deflin: August 15, 2018
History will eventually view the dawn of the Digital Age as an inflection point that redefined humanity. And like in times past, change and...
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Brad Deflin: July 09, 2018
New cybersecurity features have been released for our Private Email service. The enhancements, which have come on a regular basis since we initiated...
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Brad Deflin: June 08, 2018
A severe security bug has been discovered in Chrome. We advise updating ASAP. Here's how.
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Brad Deflin: May 14, 2018
Today, cyber risk resides at the intersection of people and the technology they use every day, not servers and IT departments. For VIPs, we combine...
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Brad Deflin: May 07, 2018
Did you know over 90% of successful cyber-attacks begin with an email? Privatizing email reduces cyber risk more than any other measure. And it...
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Brad Deflin: May 01, 2018
The world's leading researcher covering the global cyber economy says we will soon experience the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of...
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Brad Deflin: April 22, 2018
Is your Alexa insisting you call her Olga? When you ask her about the weather at your summer home, does she reply using the word "dacha"? Recently,...
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Brad Deflin: April 18, 2018
I tell people being in the cybersecurity business is a front-row seat for what’s really happening in the world of hacking and cybercrime. Especially...
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Total Digital Security: March 21, 2018
Total Digital Security offers a comprehensive list of cyber security solutions for both businesses and individuals, with the highest ranked,...
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Brad Deflin: March 08, 2018
Making successful IT-related decisions for the family office today requires a markedly different approach than even just a few years ago. Without...
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Total Digital Security: March 08, 2018
Based on decades of experience in the cyber security industry, Total Digital Security encourages employers and organizational leaders to put more...
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Total Digital Security: February 25, 2018
Tablets, laptops, and telephones are increasingly utilized as both personal and business tools that support mobility, efficiency, and communications....
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Total Digital Security: February 19, 2018
With daily stories about cyber crimes in the news, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to recognize that cyber threats are real and getting worse. And...
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Total Digital Security: February 14, 2018
Even the most secure home is never completely safe. Intruders can find ways to break in, whether it’s through back doors or loose windows, or even...
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Total Digital Security: February 13, 2018
While it’s not always necessary for the end user to understand the details of how a virtual private network with automatic encryption works, it’s...
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Total Digital Security: February 13, 2018
Using a VPN service is like having your own private airplane, private airspace, and private airport too -- all of your flights take the same route as...
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Brad Deflin: February 11, 2018
Brad Deflin, founder of Total Digital Security presenting to the Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce on Cybersecurity.
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Total Digital Security: February 10, 2018
Today’s mobile devices need to support multiple security objectives, such as confidentiality, integrity, and availability. And as we demand more and...
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Brad Deflin: February 08, 2018
Total Digital Security offers a complete set of the best digital device protection software, products & solutions available, including PC, laptop &...
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Brad Deflin: February 07, 2018
Research has shown that nine out of every ten viruses that infect a computer reach it through an email attachment. Free email is the number one...
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Brad Deflin: January 19, 2018
Online investors, affluent individuals families, family offices, VIPs, and trusted client advisors are all thinking the same thing; is cyber risk...
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Brad Deflin: January 05, 2018
From the C-suite and boardroom to the supervisor on the floor, to governance committee chairs and risk oversight members and department heads - there...
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Brad Deflin: January 05, 2018
Here is everything the average user needs to know about the recently disclosed chip flaws that are being reported by Intel and the media.
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Brad Deflin: December 26, 2017
This letter was originally sent to First Lady Mrs. Trump on December 6th, 2016 by our VP of Marketing, Diane Kisner. To date, we have not received a...
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Brad Deflin: December 05, 2017
Full Network Security - it protects your home or business internet and everything that's connected to it. Computers, laptops, smartphones, your...
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Brad Deflin: December 05, 2017
We're proud to have been nominated by the Family Wealth Report for "Best Cybersecurity Provider for Family Offices." To ClearView Financial Media -...
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Brad Deflin: November 29, 2017
"Total Digital Security combines best-in-science solutions made available to anyone, with real-world information and resources that everyone can use...
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Brad Deflin: November 06, 2017
I'll be live streaming from an interview with Marc Bernier on the SpeakER Series at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University this coming Monday, November...
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Brad Deflin: October 29, 2017
New, advanced spam filter and controls are coming for customers using Private Email accounts from Total Digital Security.
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Brad Deflin: October 01, 2017
If you haven't accepted the "new normal" for cyber risk yet, the Equifax breach ought to do the trick. Here's the why, what, and how of freezing your...
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Brad Deflin: September 20, 2017
I'm honored to have been asked back for my third consecutive Total Wealth Symposium conference! It was the Bahamas in 2015, Bermuda in 2016, and in...
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Brad Deflin: August 29, 2017
As a startup in 2013, Total Digital Security was launched to find the best IT technology available anywhere and make it accessible, easy to use, and...
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Brad Deflin: August 25, 2017
For Your Windows Computers and Laptops - Device Protection upgrade for F-Secure PSB security service. The upgrade is for Windows computers and...
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Brad Deflin: August 06, 2017
Last year China demanded Apple stop selling VPNs. Then they outlawed encryption. Now, it's Russia doing the same. VPNs are the great equalizer in the...
Brad Deflin: July 26, 2017
The elevator speech - an effective expression of your value proposition stated as quickly and succinctly as possible. It's not always easy to...
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Brad Deflin: July 21, 2017
The Merrill Lynch Private Banking Investment Group released new editions of their white papers; "Protecting Your Family in the Digital Age" and "Does...
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Brad Deflin: June 24, 2017
Since 2013 Total Digital Security has provided commercial-grade cybersecurity solutions to individuals and the technology they use every day. We...
Brad Deflin: June 12, 2017
$75,000 is the average cybercrime loss experienced by families with a net worth of more than $10 million according to a new white paper by Citi...
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Brad Deflin: June 02, 2017
"What potent blood hath modest May." - Ralph W. Emerson Emerson's few words transcend again. I've always liked Emerson. And, for me, May is a good...
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Brad Deflin: May 24, 2017
This week's blog by Dr. Gary Kessler, professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Head of the Department of Security Studies and...
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Brad Deflin: May 15, 2017
One of my first ever blogs was on ransomware. I called it “The Evolution of Extortion.” In early 2014 I tagged Ransomware as the #1 cyber-threat...
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Brad Deflin: April 14, 2017
Here's the right way to a great password that is effective and yet easy to remember.
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Brad Deflin: March 22, 2017
In 2012, I sensed the Internet’s “democratization” effect was reaching cyber risk, such that a massive increase in cyber crime was not far away....
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Brad Deflin: March 01, 2017
The Beatles once sang that “I have to admit it’s getting better ... a little better., all the time.” You might not read about it in the headlines,...
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Brad Deflin: February 24, 2017
For Total Digital Security, 2017 is proving to be a busy year for speaking, educating, and training on cybersecurity and cyber crime. Here, we list a...
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Brad Deflin: February 14, 2017
If you want to see the state of innovation in crime around the world, watch what's happening in cyber. Smart and sophisticated criminals everywhere...
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Brad Deflin: January 19, 2017
Total Digital Security provides cyber security solutions and services directly to users including wealthy individuals and family members, family...
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Brad Deflin: January 09, 2017
In an era defined by digital technology, new sensibilities for survival and success are increasingly required for employees and organizations alike....
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Brad Deflin: January 01, 2017
Want to know the #1 action to take as your first accomplishment in 2017 that will benefit you for a lifetime? Start using a password manager....
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Brad Deflin: December 26, 2016
When you are building a business and consumed by it in almost all you do, life's lines blur. Work and play become one, as do day and night, weekdays...
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Brad Deflin: December 09, 2016
The Florida Bar recently announced a three-hour increase in its CLE requirements and is mandating technology-related CLE courses. The new requirement...
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Brad Deflin: October 31, 2016
Try asking the following three questions of individuals and groups representing the family office and its multiple constituencies: "Do you think...
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Brad Deflin: October 23, 2016
Friday's attack on the internet is a watershed event in the chronical of national security and economic stability. Mark the moment, we've witnessed...
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Brad Deflin: October 17, 2016
500 million Yahoo email accounts hacked. Who'd have thunk it? Well, I did. In fact, in 2012 I thought about the Democratization of Cyber Risk (which...
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Brad Deflin: October 13, 2016
"The New Face of Risk" for the Florida Lawyer." Tuesday, November 1st 2016 Check-in: 07:45am General Session: 8:00am - 10:00am This course is...
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Brad Deflin: September 21, 2016
We returned this year to the Total Wealth Symposium, held annually by the Sovereign Society for its most elite members and advisors. While the...
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Brad Deflin: September 12, 2016
Total Digital Security is holding an ongoing series of education and training sessions for members of the RAPB - Realtors® Association of Palm Beach....
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Brad Deflin: September 03, 2016
Total Digital Security provides cyber security training programs that range from comprehensive, employee-wide education and testing, to workshops for...
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Brad Deflin: August 30, 2016
Accredited CLE Training - Cyber Security for Lawyers This course focuses on individuals and the technology they use every day, specifically from the...
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Brad Deflin: August 27, 2016
This course offers a comprehensive overview of cyber risk, cybercrime, and the measures that mitigate the risk professionally and personally -...
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Brad Deflin: August 08, 2016
Without encryption, you should assume all you do on free WiFi is part of a public conversation. Anyone can watch you enter passwords, communicate...
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Brad Deflin: August 02, 2016
Since 2013, Total Digital Security has been informing and educating individuals and groups about advanced principals and solutions for cyber-self...
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Brad Deflin: July 28, 2016
Mark the moment - cybercrime has joined terrorism as one of the two pillars of existential threats in the world. On July 7th, the UK's NCA (think FBI...
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Brad Deflin: July 21, 2016
The recent New York Post headline rang "My realtor's email was hacked, and I'm out $2 million dollars!" to subquote an ex-Lehman banker suing his...
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Brad Deflin: July 17, 2016
When we first coined the "democratization of cyber-risk" in 2012, we explained the phenomenon as a top-down process. Cybercrime started at the top:...
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Brad Deflin: July 14, 2016
Unfortunately for its brand, customers, and partners, SWIFT seems to be operating in a sub-optimal “reactive” mode to the series of cyber breaches on...
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Brad Deflin: July 05, 2016
"Cyber Security in Real Estate Sales " begins by addressing three crucial questions: Is cyber risk a real problem in the real estate sales industry?...
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Brad Deflin: June 16, 2016
When using your phone to connect to a public WiFi hotspot, the signal from your device to the WiFi router is easily tapped, monitored, and scanned...
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Brad Deflin: June 08, 2016
At the heart of every residential real estate sales transaction lies information highly sought after by cyber criminals from around the world. The...
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Brad Deflin: May 18, 2016
The House of Representatives has reported a sharp increase in ransomware attacks and is blaming staff's use of YahooMail. The House Information...
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Brad Deflin: May 13, 2016
Every new customer that came to us last week all shared the same problem; their email had been hacked. Most were on Gmail, a few on Hotmail, and...
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Brad Deflin: May 03, 2016
The criminal version of a hacker-for-hire is like a combination private eye and hitman. In each case, the professional is paid on contract to gain...
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Brad Deflin: April 30, 2016
Residential real estate brokers and agents were among our first customers back in 2013. It was the year before when we began seeing a massive wave of...
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Brad Deflin: April 26, 2016
Since 2013, Total Digital Security has been serving individuals, families, professional practices, and small businesses with advanced resources and...
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Brad Deflin: April 19, 2016
Financial theft over public WiFi hot-spots is today's digital equivalent of pickpocketing - one of the oldest and most widespread crimes in the...
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Brad Deflin: April 13, 2016
We're in the field every day, where the rubber-hits-the-road when it comes to cyber crime, online fraud, and how it affects individuals and their...
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Brad Deflin: March 11, 2016
An Obama administration official showed up at the SALT conference last week to warn the hedge fund industry and its investors of the distinct risks...
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Brad Deflin: March 07, 2016
Since 2013, Total Digital Security has been informing and educating individuals and groups about advanced principals and solutions for cyber-self...
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Brad Deflin: February 27, 2016
F-Secure, one of our preferred IT security vendors was in the news last week. Tech research leader Gartner,Inc. named the Helsinki-based firm a...
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Brad Deflin: February 18, 2016
A recent article in the Atlantic Magazine titled "Why an Email Hack Feels So Personal" struck a familiar chord with us at Total Digital Security....
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Brad Deflin: February 10, 2016
Total Digital Security is pleased to announce we are the exclusive provider of cybersecurity services and solutions to The Greater San Diego...
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Brad Deflin: January 29, 2016
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Brad Deflin: January 19, 2016
August 18th 2017 - We're updating this report on "Cyber Safe Travel" as a result of the recent increase in reports of hotel WiFi based fraud and...
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Brad Deflin: January 02, 2016
It's easy to do, it's free, it's very effective, and you don't have to wait to be a victim before using the IRS's Form 14039 to protect your identity...
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Brad Deflin: December 31, 2015
2015 - A Look Back at Some Favorites from the Year in Cyber Security
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Brad Deflin: December 18, 2015
Cyber crime has become the predominant risk we face as a society today, and when you consider the longterm mega-trends driving change; it's clear we...
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Brad Deflin: December 11, 2015
Estate plans are no longer complete without the inclusion of digital assets and passwords as part of the asset protection and transfer strategy. The...
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Brad Deflin: December 03, 2015
Ransomware is the evolution of extortion. It's one of the fastest growing crimes of 2015 and is trending higher with a capacity to become the #1...
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Brad Deflin: November 25, 2015
Looking for a meaningful gift that will last a lifetime this holiday season? For your family members and loved ones, nothing will keep giving like...
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Brad Deflin: November 11, 2015
One of the key elements to achieving privacy and cyber security as an individual or family is email. "Free" services like Gmail, AOL, Yahoo, and...
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Brad Deflin: October 29, 2015
Mobile computing, cloud storage, and Big Data software have changed the way we interact with information. Less than 10 years into this trend, data...
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Brad Deflin: October 07, 2015
Innovation in the field of cyber security is heating up in a big way. After decades of stagnation in the industry, recent regulatory pressures...
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Brad Deflin: October 01, 2015
In today’s hyper-connected world, device security is of utmost importance. Cyber criminals exploit the anonymity of the internet to perpetrate an...
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Brad Deflin: September 22, 2015
Online digital vaults for sensitive and treasured electronic files are the safe deposit box of the future. Some of our most precious possessions...
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Brad Deflin: September 11, 2015
Using and managing passwords is a drag, but the fact remains they are the keys to our information kingdom and for the foreseeable future, an...
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Brad Deflin: September 03, 2015
Here we offer a four phase strategic approach to effective and sustainable cyber risk management and mitigation. Awareness and Awakening Planning and...
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Brad Deflin: August 26, 2015
Nonprofits are facing new challenges managing their IT today. The shift to mobile has changed the organizations' operating perimeter, and new risks...
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Brad Deflin: August 11, 2015
Does it feel things are changing faster than ever before? Well, they are. For the past 50 years, the pace of change in everyday life has been...
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Brad Deflin: August 04, 2015
Airports, public WiFi networks, hotels, cafes and anywhere else people gather in the course of their daily activities - all are honeypots for...
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Brad Deflin: July 22, 2015
According to Steve Kroft of CBS News' "60 Minutes" and Wilfredo Ferrer, the U.S. Attorney for South Florida, Florida owns some dubious titles in the...
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Brad Deflin: July 15, 2015
If your enterprise trades in sensitive information, especially as it pertains to security clearances with the U.S Government and its employees,...
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Brad Deflin: July 12, 2015
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Brad Deflin: July 02, 2015
For the enterprise, the greatest challenges in cyber security today exist at the individual level and with protecting perimeter operating...
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Brad Deflin: June 22, 2015
Like everything it touches, the Internet has successfully democratized cyber risk, and the theft of personal information has become the #1 motive for...
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Brad Deflin: June 02, 2015
The AFP's annual Corporate Treasurer's Council Forum was held in Chicago last week and titled "Treasury in the Information Age." CTC members include...
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Brad Deflin: May 25, 2015
Residential real estate sales agents and firms were early adopters of the internet, and now online technology plays a fundamental role in almost...
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Brad Deflin: May 05, 2015
A Virtual Private Network or VPN is the most effective way to protect yourself from the internet when using mobile technology online. Without a VPN,...
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Brad Deflin: May 01, 2015
In this week's report, we offer a fresh look at information security and privacy strategies that specifically address the challenges that most...
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Brad Deflin: April 13, 2015
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has graduated six astronauts, provided the airline industry with more pilots than anywhere else in the world,...
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Brad Deflin: April 12, 2015
It’s Finally Happened - A Data Breach You've received a letter from your bank or a business that you’ve patronized. There’s been a data breach. Your...
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Brad Deflin: March 24, 2015
Family offices are finding the emerging risks related to cyber security as particularly challenging. Even by today's standards, the online...
