Category Archives: The Accountability Studio

Cybersecurity for Small Businesses



Small businesses! You are NOT immune from cyber-attacks. Hackers do not discriminate when it comes to who they target. Now more than ever, cybersecurity is a critical need in the world of small and medium-sized businesses. Lisa Shifferle, an attorney in the FTC’s Division of Consumer and Business Education, shares her insights on this pertinent topic. Small business owners, you’ll want to take notes on this one!


FTC Signals an Alarm on Children Advertising



The world of technology has changed, and its time that COPPA change along with it. In this episode, Dona Fraser, Vice President of the Children Advertising Review Unit shares how she envisions COPPA evolving to meet the arising needs that our endless transforming digital environment brings.


When Hackers Go Phishing



Calling all businesses! It’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month! It’s a great time to stop and ensure you are #cyberaware. James Ruotolo from SAS and Jon LaCour, Founder of PhishLabs, provides us an informative chat on how to safeguard against today’s cyber tricksters. You’ll want to hit play on this one. 

#BeCyberSmart #CyberAware #NCSAM


Today’s Retail



Get ready to wrap up our Retail Therapy with our panel of dynamic subject matter experts. In previous episodes we learned how important retail is to the overall economy and that our guests all agreed that there is no Retail Apocalypse, only Retail Opportunity.

For our final episode, we’ve asked four distinguished experts to dig deeper and summarize Today’s Retail.