NU Online News Service, June 16, 9:59 a.m. EST

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.—Cyberspace is the next employers practices liability exposure, as the threats to agents' personal and customer information are real, and almost too numerous to imagine, a consultant says.

With high-profile cyber attacks and an arsenal of schemes to gain personal information, no matter how good agents believe their computer security is, they are vulnerable to having information stolen and need to protect themselves, says Steven D. Lyon, a consultant with Lyon Consulting Services in Pequannock, N.J.

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