SAN JOSE, Calif., July 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, FICO, a global analytics software firm, announced Doug Clare, vice president of fraud, compliance, and security solutions at FICO, will be a featured presenter for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's upcoming Virtual Cyber Series.

The Virtual Cyber Series will examine the rise of cyber threats in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and how businesses can secure their increasingly remote workforces as well as digital environments.

FICO will be discussing key security trends impacting businesses today, including how to assess cyber risks along disrupted or vulnerable supply chains, best practices for empowering a remote workforce, and securing a rapidly expanding virtual infrastructure.  In addition, Mr. Clare will share best practices in assessing third and fourth party risk, as well as insights into cyber risk assessment for underwriting and pricing cyber breach insurance.  

"Cyber criminals are looking to take advantage of new vulnerabilities across a greatly expanded threat surface as a result of hastily deployed virtual infrastructures," said Clare. "With businesses increasing reliance on online services, it's vital that they take the right steps for keeping their businesses, workers and customers secure."

The presentations will be held as follows:

• Virtual Cyber Series: Chicago
  July 28, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. CST
• Virtual Cyber Series: Minnesota
  August 6, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. CST

For more information and to register to attend, please visit: https://www.uschamber.com/events/upcoming-events

Organizations can also leverage the latest U.S. Chamber of Commerce Assessment of Business Cyber Risk [ABC], which provides an overall assessment of cyber health. The ABC's National Risk Score is the revenue-weighted average of the FICO® Cyber Risk Score for nearly 2,400 small, medium, and large companies. The score calculates the probability of an organization suffering a material data breach within the next 12 months. Just like a FICO® credit score, the range is 300 to 850.  For individual companies, the higher the score, the lower the likelihood that an organization will experience a data breach within the next 12 months. Similarly, a lower score indicates greater risk of a successful data breach based on five years of historic breach data. The score analyzes billions of cyber risk indicators and uses machine learning to produce a forward-looking metric for measuring cyber risk.

Click here to read the most recent ABC research, for the first half of 2020.

About the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world's largest business organization representing companies of all sizes across every sector of the economy. Our members range from the small businesses and local chambers of commerce that line the Main Streets of America to leading industry associations and large corporations. They all share one thing: They count on the U.S. Chamber to be their voice in Washington, across the country, and around the world. For more than 100 years, we have advocated for pro-business policies that help businesses create jobs and grow our economy. For more information, visit uschamber.com,  like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

About FICO
FICO (NYSE: FICO) powers decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper. Founded in 1956 and based in Silicon Valley, the company is a pioneer in the use of predictive analytics and data science to improve operational decisions. FICO holds more than 195 US and foreign patents on technologies that increase profitability, customer satisfaction and growth for businesses in financial services, telecommunications, health care, retail and many other industries. Using FICO solutions, businesses in more than 100 countries do everything from protecting 2.6 billion payment cards from fraud, to helping people get credit, to ensuring that millions of airplanes and rental cars are in the right place at the right time.

Learn more at https://www.fico.com/.

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SOURCE FICO

FICO Media: Greg Jawski, Porter Novelli for FICO, +1 212-601-8248, greg.jawski@porternovelli.com; U.S. Chamber of Commerce Media: Kathleen Ward, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, (202) 463-5682, kward@uschamber.com