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She has focused on information security for the better part of a decade and regularly writes about the security industry as a contributor to Dark Reading. Chickowski’s perspectives on business and technology have also appeared in dozens of trade and consumer magazines, including Consumers Digest, Entrepreneur, Network Computing and InformationWeek. Find me on: ## Recent Posts Feb 28, 2018 ## [Cybercrime Dominates Business Fraud Losses](https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/cybercrime-dominates-business-fraud-losses?hsLang=en-us) Business fraud has been on a dramatic uptick over the last decade and cybercrime stands near ... [#Privacy and Data Protection](https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/topic/privacy-and-data-protection?hsLang=en-us) Feb 26, 2018 ## [The Dirty Dozen Vendors Deluging Your Vulnerability Management Team](https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/vulnerability-management-team?hsLang=en-us) We've all heard about the 80/20 rule in business. But in vulnerability management, it may be ... Feb 01, 2018 ## [Cyber Warranties Could Be Next Big Service Provider Differentiator](https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/warranty-service-provider-security?hsLang=en-us) As worries about third-party risks continue to press on the minds of technology ... Jan 31, 2018 ## [Is Your Data Safe from Quantum Supremacy?](https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/quantum-computing?hsLang=en-us) Quantum computing may sound like science fiction, but it's coming down the pike faster than ... Jan 29, 2018 ## [No End in Sight for IoT Botnet Growth](https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/iot-botnet-smart-devices?hsLang=en-us) When the Mirai botnet first made waves back in 2016 taking down DynDNS services using an ... Jan 24, 2018 ## [Leaky Buckets: 10 Worst Amazon S3 Breaches](https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/worst-amazon-breaches?hsLang=en-us) The last year has proved out about security naysayers' warnings about the undisciplined use ... 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