Category: Produce Blueprints

Behind the Dirty Dozen pesticide residue discussion is a much larger issue of risk- versus hazard-based assessments of food safety.

The “Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce,” which, according to the the EWG website, “ranks the pesticide contamination of 46 popular fruits and vegetables,” has frustrated the produce industry for decades.

A zero-trust system, as well as other mitigation measures, can also lower cyber-insurance premiums.

There are many ways to prevent cybercrime—including tools, resources, best practices, and policies—that will help mitigate risks, experts point out.

Though cybercrime isn’t always in the news, it’s a significant problem and getting worse.

The second and third paths of cybercrime attacks noted by Greg Gatzke, president of ZAG Technical Services, involve ransomware—one by encryption and the other through the release of confidential information.

While much has been written about this highly charged matter of cybersecurity, our feature attempts to bring clarity to the issues that make punching keys on a computer so important.

Risks of fraud lurk around businesses of all types and sizes, according to Greg Gatzke, president of ZAG Technical Services, Inc., a San Jose, CA-based IT consulting firm and managed services provider.

The Solution: Gather all available information, communicate, and act in good faith.

Data breaches no longer are so far flung and rare that they only happen to somebody else.