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CDK Incident Update - Webinar   Join us for a webinar this Thursday to discuss the CDK Incident, guidance on how dealers can mitigate risk, steps to take after an attack, understand regulatory needs and develop best practices for incident responses. 🍀🍀🍀 Webinar Details: • Date: June 27th • Time: 12:00 PM EST • Presenters: Brad Miller, Head of Legal, and Chris Cleveland, CEO of ComplyAuto 🍀🍀🍀 Key Topics: • Immediate steps to take following a security incident • Understanding and fulfilling legal and regulatory obligations • Best practices for incident response and risk mitigation 🍀 Registration link in comments. 🍀 Chris Cleveland pictured with Brad Miller. Jk. It’s Chris’s son. #automotive #dealership #dealer

Connected vehicles are wells of consumer data, making them highly attractive to cybercriminals, says Dykema’s Dante Stella. At our first annual #DykemaDrives event at M1 Concourse, our Automotive Industry Group shared their legal perspectives on automotive innovation. Learn more about this group and how they can assist with legal matters surrounding the evolving automotive landscape here: https://lnkd.in/g9ZRCZkj

Some good insights on here for the dealers in the weeds right now. Thank you to Car Dealership Guy and his team for putting this together for the 15,000 effected dealerships. Thankfully, I work for a forward thinking group so we were prepared and reacted quickly, and are in fact capitalizing on this in our the market. My VW store has never been this busy. We didn’t all of a sudden become better closers. We are taking deals from other stores in our market that are choosing an external locus of control approach. Like a feather, subject to the prevailing winds of the day. My JLR store is CRUSHING F&I right now and hasn’t missed a step! Fixed Ops, man, that’s been rough but the team is pushing hard to get it done for our clients! It’s like ★ Chris Collins ★ said in our leadership training: you either have an internal or external locus of control. I choose to control my outcome! I choose to win during this “crisis.” No CDK, NO PROBLEM!!

Yesterday, I began a new project for a store based in California. My client asked me how long I thought it would take to finish running NCT. I told him I did not anticipate more than a week, but as we spoke I could feel this excitement. I really do love cleaning up a name file and seeing how many duplicates I can link. Well, as of fifteen minutes ago, this Porsche store in California was finished. I looked at the clock and realized I had been working for 16 straight hours. It’s not dedication, it’s not the money, it’s about proving to every single client, I am worth continuing to hire for Name Consolidation via #CDK every single time. I don’t want to be a one and done unless you are converting off of CDK. #NCT is a manual DOS based process. It’s time consuming and mentally taxing for the person doing the work (in this case me). However, no matter how tired and stressed, I can get, I get the job done and I respect my client. Their data is safe, secure, and treated as if it was my own. There is no reason to use CDK for NCT when Empire Data Management is around. Your money and your data in my hands isn’t just a number, it’s 1 on 1, person to person. 12 years of experience and counting, the job will never be complete. You’ll want to reach out directly to me at 330-283-8779 today for scheduling. Time is of the essence for you. Rates besting CDK, guranteed.

🚨Breaking in tech: A massive cyber attack on CDK, a pivotal tech provider in the auto industry, has left U.S. dealerships scrambling.🔧🚘 Most of the 15,000 retailers nationwide are now handicapped due to the disabled software essential for completing deals and monitoring crucial business stats. AutoNation, a giant in the retail auto world, faces significant disruption despite keeping doors open.🚪 Sales must go on, but at a steeper operational cost. Nearby, Lithia Motors echoes the setbacks, stressing the system outage's likely blow to its workflow.📉 Imagine nearly 100 cars sold, yet none can be officially passed to buyers—this is the harsh reality for Village Ford in Michigan. Paperwork, typically a digital breeze, now piles up, challenging dealers like Jim Seavitt to improvise and keep the engine of sales running.📝🚗 As CDK races against time to restore operations, dealers employ old-school pen and paper tactics, shielding their data like knights of business continuity. However, the road ahead is unclear, with the recovery timeline for additional CDK applications still in the fog.🌫️ With the economic ripple only beginning, industry analysts from Citi and JPM to Sonic Automotive are raising flags about potential sales dips. Will the swift pivot to manual processes cushion the blow? Only time and the effectiveness of CDK's recovery efforts will tell.⏳ #CyberAttack #AutoIndustry #BusinessContinuity

Dealer Friends - I know CDK outages are painful for all - we value CDK and their work with dealers and are terribly sorry for the inconvenience all are experiencing . Please let me know how we as SafePoint Dealer Services can help and support all - as these outages are resolved . Dean Powery Steve Peika Chad Engle

“Mass Chaos”...“Paralyzing”....“Stone Ages”...😱 Those are just some of the words we've seen in sensational headlines about the recent CDK outage. And while those descriptors are all fine and dandy for the click-rate, we know our industry is far more agile and resilient than to believe any of that nonsense. A huge kink in your daily operations and processes? Absolutely. A massive pain in the you-know-what? Definitely. But, not chaos. Not from the nimble folks we know. (Lookin' at you Matthew Lasher 👋, Peter Smith and John Couret among many others). 👀 How are you and your team adapting to the outage? 👇 💬👇 . . . 🎙️Tune into the Automotive Troublemakers to stay updated and encouraged as we work through this together. 🎧 https://lnkd.in/egwNFqw3

🚨Breaking in tech: A massive cyber attack on CDK, a pivotal tech provider in the auto industry, has left U.S. dealerships scrambling.🔧🚘 Most of the 15,000 retailers nationwide are now handicapped due to the disabled software essential for completing deals and monitoring crucial business stats. AutoNation, a giant in the retail auto world, faces significant disruption despite keeping doors open.🚪 Sales must go on, but at a steeper operational cost. Nearby, Lithia Motors echoes the setbacks, stressing the system outage's likely blow to its workflow.📉 Imagine nearly 100 cars sold, yet none can be officially passed to buyers—this is the harsh reality for Village Ford in Michigan. Paperwork, typically a digital breeze, now piles up, challenging dealers like Jim Seavitt to improvise and keep the engine of sales running.📝🚗 As CDK races against time to restore operations, dealers employ old-school pen and paper tactics, shielding their data like knights of business continuity. However, the road ahead is unclear, with the recovery timeline for additional CDK applications still in the fog.🌫️ With the economic ripple only beginning, industry analysts from Citi and JPM to Sonic Automotive are raising flags about potential sales dips. Will the swift pivot to manual processes cushion the blow? Only time and the effectiveness of CDK's recovery efforts will tell.⏳ #CyberAttack #AutoIndustry #BusinessContinuity