Security Awareness – Edelstein & Company, LLP

Top 10 tips for holiday shopping this season

Edelstein — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 16:01:15 +0000

As the holidays approach and online shopping is a natural tendency, you need to ensure that your personal information isn’t being poached by scammers who could take your information and make fraudulent purchases. Our Director of IT, Mike Bisso, compiled the top 10 tips for holiday shopping this season.

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Here are a few tips while shopping this holiday season:

Never use a debit card that is linked to your cash to make purchases. Always use a credit card or a credit card service to make purchases like PayPal and Venmo.
Take advantage of using store credit cards to make purchases at their stores such as Amazon, Macy’s, Home Depot etc.
Always, always, always use multi-factor authentication when possible with your banking and financial websites, social media, email etc. Make them prove it’s you.
Turn on alerts especially on your banking and financial websites for transactions.
When shopping online at not-so-mainstream stores be leery and look for clues such as a phone number, address etc. so you can get in touch with them if there is an issue. If an online website only offers an email address for contact, you should consider skipping the purchase.
Never, ever, ever make an online purchase on Free, Public, Open Access Wi-Fi.
Ship and track packages to a secure location! Package thefts increase substantially around the holidays.
Monitor your bank and credit card statements.
Create secure passwords for all accounts and NEVER share passwords.
Be careful before you click on promotional email links…they may not take you where the link says you are going!

Edelstein offers IT Consulting Services and can help your business with Security Awareness and IT Security.

It’s Cyber Monday and IT Security is on our mind

Edelstein — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 19:55:08 +0000

It’s Cyber Monday and our IT Consultants always have security top of mind. Earlier this year, Edelstein announced the offering of IT Consulting Services, including the ways we can help your business feel safe when it comes to cyber security. To learn more about how we can work with you, watch the following video.

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Edelstein Hosts Annual Tax Timely Topic Breakfast

Edelstein — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:15:12 +0000

On November 12th, 2019, we hosted our Annual Tax Timely Topic Breakfast at the UMass Club. The morning started with our IT Director, Mike Bisso, presenting on Security Awareness. After that, a panel consisting of our Managing Partner, Scott Kaplowitch, Tax Principal, Glenn Gates, and Tax Manager, Jonathan Liff answered questions on Trusts & Estates, Qualified Business Income Deduction, and International Accounting. To conclude the morning, Partner, Bob Babine, shared his insights on Revenue Recognition. The breakfast was moderated by Tax Managers, Kathryn Clark and Bethany Kelly. Attendees had the opportunity to learn from our thought leaders as well as network with them and each other. We pride ourselves on being able to share these insights and bring value to our clients.

Did you know?

Edelstein — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 14:14:31 +0000

We launched IT Consulting Services here at Edelstein! As a firm, we have a history of delivering fast, dependable and quality services to our clients and exceeding their tax and accounting expectations. Our IT Consultants will operate in the same manner, with the same quality outcome. We can deliver network and infrastructure upgrades and roll outs, desktop solutions, software support, PC and hardware delivery and more.

Learn about the ways we can work with your business here.