Evaluating Cyber Security Compliance Vendors During Year-End Reviews
Year-end planning season is when most dealerships review expenses, hold manager meetings, and decide which vendors to ke...
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Short, practical sessions on dealership compliance and cyber security. Every one comes with a written summary and a full transcript, so you can read it instead of watching.
The Case for Consolidating Dealership Compliance and Cyber Vendors
Dealerships across the country tend to treat compliance and cyber security as an afterthought, often unable to say who t...
ARMP Offers Combined Cybersecurity and Compliance for Dealers
Dealership compliance vendors tend to be fragmented, each built around a narrow niche. Some grew out of OSHA and EPA wor...
Reframing Dealership Compliance as a Sound Business Decision
Compliance is often treated as a burden imposed by regulators like state attorneys general or the FTC, a set of boxes to...
ARMP's Full-Service Compliance Services for Auto Dealerships
Full service compliance coverage for a dealership means more than a single audit or a training portal. It should include...
Real-Time Network Defense vs Reactive EDR and MDR Tools
Most cyber security tools on the market, including EDR and MDR products, are built to react after the fact. They monitor...
An Offensive, Real-Time Cyber Security Tool for Dealerships
Real-time network monitoring is presented as a better way to handle cyber security than relying on periodic reports that...
Dealership Cyberattacks Are Surging and What a Breach Costs You
Cyberattacks on auto dealerships have reportedly risen 155% over roughly the past eighteen months, a trend many dealers...
The FTC CARS Rule Reflects Requirements Dealers Already Face
The FTC's CARS Rule, sometimes called the shopping rule, has drawn attention because of a Texas lawsuit challenging its...
Real-Time Threat Detection vs. Latency in Dealership Cyber Security Tools
Most cyber security tools marketed to dealerships, from EDR to MDR platforms, carry built-in latency, meaning the data b...
Why a Dealership Compliance Program Is a Sound Business Decision
A strong compliance program is worth building for reasons that go beyond avoiding fines or audits from the FTC, CFPB, or...
Terry Dortch's Pledge to Deliver Top Dealership Compliance Service
Compliance vendors sometimes make grand claims about what they can deliver, and this video draws a line between a commit...
Real-Time Cyber Threat Detection With Ridgeback Network Defenses
Real-time network monitoring is presented as a step beyond standard cyber security tools like CrowdStrike, built around...
Federal, State, and CFPB Compliance Pressures Facing Dealerships
Compliance is treated by many dealerships as something to worry about later, filed away while everyone focuses on sellin...
How Sextortion Scams on Employee Phones Threaten Dealership Networks
Every device connected to a dealership's network, including employee phones, represents a potential entry point for cybe...
How Employee Personal Cell Phones Create Network Risk at Dealerships
A dealership's network exposure grows with every employee who brings a personal smartphone to work. With an average stor...
Cyber Vulnerability Scans vs Physical Compliance Audits
Both physical premises audits and the cyber vulnerability scans many dealerships already pay for are forms of risk asses...
The Three Core Components of a Dealership Compliance Program
A workable compliance program rests on three core components, not a single checklist item. Employee education has to cov...
The Case for Weekly Network Scans Over Quarterly Cyber Checks
Network vulnerability scanning frequency is a detail many dealerships overlook when choosing a cyber security compliance...
Why Dealerships Need Both Physical and Virtual Compliance Audits
A sound compliance program depends on combining virtual auditing with physical, in-person audits of the dealership floor...
FTC Enforcement Actions Show Need for Physical F&I Sales Audits
Recent FTC enforcement actions against Coulter Motor Company in Arizona and David McDavid's three Texas stores highlight...
Why Dealerships Need Tailored, Ongoing Phishing Campaigns
Phishing remains one of the leading causes of cyber security breaches, including well-known cases like Equifax, and deal...
Evaluate Your Dealership Compliance Program Before Renewing
Building a compliance program, whether through an outside provider or handled internally, requires a clear-eyed evaluati...
The Case for Regular Dealership Vehicle Lift Inspections
Vehicle lift inspections are a physical safety and compliance obligation that often gets overlooked amid the focus on cy...
Compliance Programs Have Grown Beyond Simple Box-Checking
Dealership compliance has grown well beyond the box-checking approach many stores adopted when the FTC and state Attorne...
How ARMP's Insurance-Backed Compliance Program Protects Dealers
Being enrolled in a compliance program is not the same as being financially protected if a claim or lawsuit actually hap...
What Happens When a Dealership Switches Compliance Vendors to ARMP
Switching compliance vendors sounds disruptive, but the actual workload for a dealership is minimal. After signing on, t...
Phishing Campaigns Are Essential After the CDK Cyberattack
Phishing attacks remain one of the most common ways hackers break into dealership systems, and having an active phishing...
Securing Dealership Vendor Contracts to Limit Data Breach Liability
Vendors with regular access to dealership systems, whether dialing in remotely or visiting in person, represent a major...
Lessons for Dealers From the CDK and Finley Class Action Lawsuits
Class action lawsuits recently filed against CDK and Finley highlight a risk every dealership faces, regardless of who c...
Why Private Equity Buyouts Are Reshaping Dealership Vendor Options
Private equity firms have spent the last decade or more buying up compliance vendors and dealership groups alike, consol...
Phishing Risks Dealers Should Watch For After the CDK Cyberattack
Ransomware attacks like the CDK incident, and phishing breaches like the one that hit Finley, share a common aftermath:...
How Dealership Compliance Programs Mitigate F&I and Data Risk
Dealership compliance covers far more ground than most stores realize, spanning Gramm-Leach-Bliley data safeguards, OSHA...
Why Dealerships Comply and How to Choose a Compliance Path
Dealership compliance with federal and state rules matters for reasons beyond avoiding a fine. Regulators such as the FT...
What a Good Compliance Partner Should Handle for Your Dealership
Trade publications like Automotive News, Auto Success, Digital Dealer, and Wards constantly warn dealers about new compl...
What Happens During ARMP's Dealership Onboarding Process
Onboarding with a compliance and cyber security provider does not have to disrupt dealership operations, and this walkth...
How Dealers Should Vet Vendors Before Signing Contracts
Choosing which vendors to trust is a growing challenge for dealers, given how many companies compete for the revenue gen...
How ARMP's Hands-On Consulting Model Differs from Other Compliance Vendors
Compliance vendors vary widely in what they actually deliver, and this video lays out what a full-service program should...
How to Tell a Real Dealership Compliance Vendor From a Fake One
Not all dealership compliance providers deliver the same value, and the gap often comes down to how much real, hands-on...
What Dealership Compliance Vendors Often Leave Out of Their Coverage
Many compliance vendors in the auto industry oversell narrow services as complete protection. Some claim a pen test and...
What to Look for When Choosing a Dealership Compliance Partner
Compliance often gets treated as a necessary evil at dealerships, something squeezed in around the real business of sell...
Two Myths About Switching Your Dealership Compliance Vendor
Switching compliance vendors is often assumed to be as disruptive as changing a DMS provider, but this video pushes back...
Two Compliant Cybersecurity Options Under the FTC Safeguards Rule
The FTC Safeguards Rule gives dealers two ways to satisfy its cyber security requirements. Option one allows periodic vu...
Why Dealerships Should Close Compliance Gaps Before Year End
As summer winds down and fall approaches, dealerships that missed the FTC Safeguards Rule deadline back in June still ha...
Why Dealers Must Read Compliance Vendor Contracts Closely
Vendor contracts often get far less scrutiny than the paperwork dealers use with their own customers, even though a buye...
How ARMP Automates Third-Party Vendor Vetting for Dealers
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act requires dealerships to vet the third party service providers who touch customer data, from s...
Why Dealership Service Lift Inspections Are an OSHA Requirement
OSHA compliance in the service department covers a wide range of issues, from proper labeling and machine guarding to co...
Why Physical Compliance Audits Matter as Much as Cybersecurity
Dealership compliance is often reduced to whatever regulation is making headlines, and right now that means the cyber se...
Why Dealership Compliance Must Cover Paper, Not Just Cyber
The FTC Safeguards Rule, part of Gramm-Leach-Bliley since 2003, has always included an IT component, but the amendment t...
The Cost of Delaying Compliance Decisions at Dealerships
Delaying a decision on compliance is itself a decision, and it is often the costliest one. Dealerships routinely spend f...
Decoding NOC, SOC, EDR, XDR, and SIEM for Dealership Cyber Tools
Meeting the updated FTC Safeguards Rule deadline of June 9th means choosing cyber security tools and vendors, and that p...
Building a Full Cyber Security Program Under the Safeguards Rule
The FTC Safeguards Rule's cyber security requirements go well beyond running a periodic penetration test or vulnerabilit...
ARMP's Role as a Dealership Compliance Partner
Dealership compliance obligations trace back to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 2003, and the rules, amendments, and adden...
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