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The Importance of Email and IM Encryption for Cyber Security
The average office worker receives about 90 emails a day, and sends 40 emails. Also, 97% of all Americans text at least once a day and 80% text for business purposes. Yet, while more and more team members are cautious … Read More ›
The Top 9 Cyber Security Myths and the Top 9 Cyber Security Truths
You might think your business is too small for a cyberattack, your security is too strong or your data is too insignificant. Unfortunately, we have some bad news: no organization is safe from the continually growing threat of a cyberattack … Read More ›
How to Perform a Cyber Security Risk Assessment in Five Steps
How safe is your organization from cyberthreats? The best way to answer that question is by performing a thorough cyber security risk assessment. A cyber security risk assessment—the process of identifying, analyzing and evaluating risks—is the only way to know … Read More ›
Why DDoS Security is Critical for your School (and what is DDoS, anyway)?
If you regularly follow our blogs, you’ve read about the dangers of Phishing and Ransomware, but there’s a third method of cybercrime that can be just as damaging: a DDoS attack, or “Distributed Denial of Service.” A DDoS attack occurs … Read More ›
What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: The Perils of Inadequate Cyber Security Asset Management.
We’re often surprised at how frequently companies fail to adequately track their IT resources. But while tracking the life cycle of your IT devices is important to assure you maximize their value, it is also a critical safety issue. BYOD … Read More ›
The Benefits of Proactive Cyber Security Monitoring
A business team can take a wait-and-see reactive approach to cyber security, delaying action until it is a victim. Or, it can play a proactive role in anticipating the risks, finding the weaknesses, and putting the processes in place that … Read More ›
6 Ways to Improve Employee Cyber Security Awareness, for Businesses and Schools
According to Accenture’s Cost of Cyber Crime Study, the average cost of cyber crime in the United States reached $21.22 million per organization last year (compared to $17.26 million the year before). But you can’t depend solely on your IT department … Read More ›
Five Top Cyber Security Threats for 2019
Cyber security concerns have been around for as long as there has been cyber-anything. The first computer virus was found infecting computers in the early 1970’s and the first malware author was convicted in 1988. Those early infections were primitive … Read More ›
Six Steps to Creating an Effective Business Continuity Plan
You take all the recommended cybersecurity precautions. You back up. Your staff is trained on processes. You have firewalls in place, passwords that are hard to decipher, and the most recent security patches in place. Yet, you still worry. You’re … Read More ›
USB Security Risks: When Flash Drives Become Dangerous
Flash drive. Thumb drive. Jump drive. USB stick. Whatever you call it, most of us have at least one of these ubiquitous, simple devices. The very first USB drive—called the DiskOnKey—held a whopping 8MB of data. Today, they not only … Read More ›