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5 Best Practices for Emergency Communications Preparedness
An emergency strikes and the power to your facility, building or campus is disrupted, or a human threat endangers personal safety, or a natural disaster puts data security and business operations at risk. In any of these scenarios, and there … Read More ›
School IT Safety: Five Tips for Smarter Physical Security
At Single Path, we spend a lot of time thinking, acting and working on ways to protect computers electronically—backing up data in case of system failure, keeping private information away from hackers, ensuring safe and trouble-free 1:1 learning environments and … Read More ›
The Value of an Emergency Alert System
Emergencies happen, and when they do, the ability to immediately communicate with your team and emergency responders can be critically important. A natural disaster. A weather alert. A gas leak. Or, something darker. Regardless of the problem, having a communication … Read More ›
How to Create Your School Cyber-Threat Strategy
Cyber-threats are on the rise in our school districts, which often lack the resources to protect themselves, the training to use the resources they have effectively, and even the knowledge to identify which resources are needed. We wrote about the … Read More ›
Cyber Incidents for K-12 are Rising. Is Your Student Data Vulnerable?
Data leaks are becoming so commonplace it seems like we’re almost becoming immune to them. Another ransomware attack on a business. Another virus crippling a network. Another identity theft scam. But then something happens that shakes us up and reminds … Read More ›
Is Your Cisco Network Hardware Leaving You Vulnerable?
Recently, Cisco Systems made the news, but not the sort of news any Internet-related business wants to make. Their network hardware was hijacked, and hundreds of thousands of their customers were victims. As this blog post from Kaspersky Labs reported … Read More ›
The Growing Threat of IoT
Just a few years ago the idea of someone hacking into your organization’s network through your HVAC system, or through an employee’s watch would have been ridiculous. But now? Welcome to IoT, or the Internet of Things, a somewhat casual … Read More ›
The Newest Cyberthreat: Cryptojacking
Cryptocurrency, and in particular Bitcoin, has been in and out of the news recently as the volatility in its value elevates investment fortunes one week and then sinks back down to earth the next. With the rise of this unregulated … Read More ›
Owt trap, noitneverp ssol atad fo tra eht dna noitpyrcne (Encryption and the Art of Data Loss Prevention, Part Two)
With cyberthreats on the rise, and hackers becoming more sophisticated, strategies to protect your files are critical—and encryption is a tool too important to ignore. In our last post, we explained the basics and importance of data encryption. Now, we … Read More ›
Cybersecurity Business Risk Discussion
Single Path, in conjunction with Cisco, recently hosted a presentation by renowned cyber security expert Bryce Austin. Bryce shared his experiences while at Target during their breach. The discussion also included valuable information on creating a cohesive tactical plan for … Read More ›