{"id":48956,"date":"2015-06-26T07:59:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T11:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=48956"},"modified":"2015-06-26T07:59:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T11:59:50","slug":"private-equity-firms-get-cybersecurity-wake-up-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2015\/private-equity-firms-get-cybersecurity-wake-up-call.html","title":{"rendered":"Private Equity Firms Get Cybersecurity Wake Up Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> (Buyouts Insider) Private equity professionals who thought they had cybersecurity risks under control may be in for a jolt after this week&#8217;s release of the summer 2015 edition of Connections in the Middle Market, produced in partnership by law firm Duane Morris LLP and private equity publisher Buyouts Insider.<\/p>\n<p>The cover story reveals how one mid-market buyout shop has already had to contend with breaches at two portfolio companies, including one where hackers threatened to expose sensitive customer information if they weren&#8217;t paid a sizeable ransom.<\/p>\n<p>The story goes on to provide private equity professionals with actionable advice on how they can protect sensitive information\u2014including the financial results of privately-held portfolio companies\u2014from hackers and related cyber attacks. A list of &#8220;Top 11 tips to harden your cyber defenses&#8221; includes such advice as making sure to perform a self-assessment identifying gaps in cyber defenses, to formulate an incident response plan in the event of a breach, and to consider buying a cybersecurity insurance policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Buyouts Insider) Private equity professionals who thought they had cybersecurity risks under control may be in for a jolt after this week&#8217;s release of the summer 2015 edition of Connections in the Middle Market, produced in partnership by law firm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48958,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48956\/revisions\/48958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}