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Protecting Your Business from Cybercrime

Cybercrime continues to rear its ugly face and is now estimated to be costing companies almost half a trillion dollars a year worldwide.  These networks of cybercriminals are operating from multiple countries with tremendous resources and creativity and only the need for a connection to the Internet.  What should a business do to protect itself and its customers?

Mike Switzer interviews Belton Zeigler, an attorney with Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice in Columbia, SC and a leading member of their Data Management and Cybersecurity Team.

Resource: National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.