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CybersecurityHow Can Cyber Resilience Protect SMBs?
Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) usually invest less in cybersecurity, making them easier targets for cybercriminals. Close to 30% of businesses experience a cyberattack at least once per week.
May 25, 2021 4 min -
CybersecurityHow Can SMBs Apply Zero Trust Cybersecurity Practices
With the cyberthreat landscape getting more complicated with every passing minute, cybersecurity deserves more attention than ever before. You can no longer put all your faith and trust in applications, interfaces, networks, devices, traffic and users. Misjudging and misplacing your trust in a devious entity can lead to severe breaches that can damage your business. Zero Trust Security practices, however, can go a long way towards helping small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) minimize cybersecurity risks and prevent data breaches.
May 10, 2021 4 min -
CybersecurityIs Your Cyber Security Policy (Or Lack Of One) Leaving You Wide Open To Attacks?
Every business, big or small, should have a cyber security policy in place for its employees. Employees need to know what’s acceptable and what isn’t when it comes to all things IT. The policy should set expectations, lay out rules and give employees the resources necessary to put the policy to work.
May 1, 2021 3 min -
CybersecurityMaking Security Awareness Second Nature
Your business’ security program must start with your employees and strong security policies rather than entirely depending on your IT team or the latest security solutions. You can significantly reduce the likelihood of a data breach by combining a well-drafted cybersecurity policy with comprehensive security awareness training.
April 28, 2021 4 min -
CybersecurityYour Biggest Cybersecurity Risk: Your Employees
Cybercriminals work round the clock to detect and exploit vulnerabilities in your business’ network for nefarious gains. The only way to counter these hackers is by deploying a robust cybersecurity posture that’s built using comprehensive security solutions. However, while you’re caught up doing this, there is a possibility you may overlook mitigating the weakest link in your fight against cybercriminals — your employees.
April 21, 2021 4 min -
CybersecurityRecommended Best Practices for a Secure Supply Chain
Your business’ cybersecurity posture must prioritize detection, evaluation and mitigation of risks posed by your supply chain. It is vital that your security is upgraded on a regular basis to better prepare for any worst-case scenarios.
March 12, 2021 4 min -
CybersecurityCybersecurity Awareness : The Complete Series
Enjoy our complete series from last years Cybersecurity Awareness Month. You can find all 8 episodes in this round-up! Learn to be cyber smart after watching the complete collection and reading our tips and tricks.
March 5, 2021 10 min -
CybersecurityDefense Strategies to Combat Insider Threats
Insider threats are among the most dangerous cyberthreats out there. Yet, organizations of all sizes seem to be either reluctant or negligent when it comes to fighting them. Over 50 percent of organizations don’t have an Insider Risk Response Plan and 40 percent don’t assess how effectively their technologies mitigate insider threats.1 Even though 59 percent of IT security leaders expect insider risks to increase in the next two years, very little is being done to prevent them from causing serious security incidents.
February 24, 2021 5 min -
CybersecurityFree eBook - Insider Threats: A guide to understanding, detecting and preventing insider security incidents
FACT: Insider threats are a growing concern for business owners and IT experts. According to Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report, 30 percent of data breaches directly involved internal actors. Security threats that originate from within an organization are often the hardest to detect and prevent, especially since an insider has the trust and knowledge of infrastructure systems and data assets as well as authorized access to both.
February 15, 2021 1 min -
CybersecurityThe Dangers Within: Understanding Insider Threats
The year 2020 witnessed an unprecedented onslaught of cybersecurity threats across the world as the global workforce underwent a forced transition to remote working. However, not all cybersecurity threats come from the outside. In a study conducted by Bitglass, 61 percent of businesses surveyed reported at least one insider-related cybersecurity incident in the last year. This could be anything from negligent employees who lack cybersecurity training to rogue employees who facilitate a breach for personal gain.
February 10, 2021 4 min -
CybersecurityCybersecurity Awareness Episode 8: Wi-Fi
Come on – let's admit it. We’ve all been in that desperate situation where we need Wi-Fi access but the only Wi-Fi around is “unsecured”. In other words, there is no lock symbol next to the familiar Wi-Fi symbol. It’s FREE, or so we think – as some economists put it..."there is no such thing as a free lunch".
February 5, 2021 2 min -
CybersecurityHow To Enable Remote Work Without Exposing Your Entire Business To Cybercriminals
A record number of businesses said goodbye to the traditional in-office work model in 2020. They embraced the remote work model as they adapted to the new COVID-19 reality. It was a huge shift that came with many challenges, and some of those challenges are still felt today.
February 1, 2021 4 min -
CybersecuritySecuring Your Remote Workers
Over the last few years, we have seen several tech companies, such as Buffer, Todoist and Help Scout, to name a few, switch to a fully remote or partial work setup. Most of these companies spent months preparing for the switch by training their employees, setting up remote work policies and ensuring the necessary infrastructure was in place to deal with cybersecurity threats.
January 22, 2021 5 min -
CybersecurityUsing a Webcam Shield for Cybersecurity
You often hear us talk about cybersecurity in the digital space with proper security tools and monitoring, but today we are going to talk about cybersecurity in the physical world and some physical things you can do to help improve your cybersecurity posture.
January 21, 2021 1 min -
CybersecurityUSB Data Blockers
Your not home, your mobile phone is low on battery!!! Quick, run and plug your charging cable into the first USB port you can find right? BIG MISTAKE – you should think twice before you do this.
January 19, 2021 2 min -
CybersecurityMulti Factor Authentication - Part 2 | For Cell Phones
In this video we explain how to setup MFA using your mobile device instead of a computer.
January 14, 2021 1 min -
CybersecurityMulti Factor Authentication - Part 1 | For Computers
In this video we will explain what MFA is and now to set it up using a Desktop Computer instead of a mobile phone.
January 14, 2021 1 min -
CybersecurityNew Year, New Risks for IT & Data Security
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything about the world as we know it. Just as we started embracing new practices like sanitizing, social distancing and remote working, the pandemic has also forced us to embrace systemic changes in the ways we deal with cyberthreats. In fact, the FBI has reported an increase in cyberattacks to 4,000 per day in 2020, which is 400 percent higher than the attacks reported before the onset of the coronavirus.
January 13, 2021 4 min -
CybersecurityTime it Takes a Hacker to Brute Force Your Password
We often receive push back from clients and prospects when we tell them they need to use STRONG passwords made up of numbers, letters, and special characters. When we tell them to make passwords 20 characters or longer, they often gasp in disbelief. We hear things like, "Its too complex", "This password you made me is CRAZY"... Here is a very simple chart that shows exactly why we recommend this as best practice, and also why we recommend using a password manager.
January 8, 2021 1 min -
CybersecurityHow To Securely Erase All Data From an Old Mechanical Hard Drive for FREE
There are endless creative ways people go about getting rid of their old hard drive in such a way as to destroy all the data on it. Methods I have seen and heard of range from setting it on fire, cutting it up, smashing it with a hammer, demagnetizing it, driving over it with heavy machinery, and pretty much everything in-between.
January 8, 2021 1 min
