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Top Five Cyberthreats That Can Kill Your Business Growth

Top Five Cyberthreats That Can Kill Your Business Growth Neglecting your organization’s cybersecurity can seriously harm your business. Investors quickly lose interest in investing in companies that have been hacked or suffer from other cyberattacks. The revelation of two massive data breaches at Yahoo®, affecting one billion users, threatened to derail the Verizon® offer to […]

Top Seven Reasons Why You Should Not Share Your Passwords

Top Seven Reasons Why You Should Not Share Your Passwords One of the most challenging aspects of our modern digital lives is managing all the online accounts most of us now have. Credit monitoring firm, Experian®, found that 25- to 34-year-olds register for an average of 40 accounts per email address. However, across those 40 […]

Ransomware – Tips to Combat the Threats Enabled From Within

The Wanna Decryptor (aka “WannaCry“) ransomware strain that surfaced over the past couple of weeks, and quickly gained momentum globally, serves as a harsh reminder of the troubles businesses face when putting basic security best practices on the back burner. With software solutions available to handle everything from patch management to more complex functions—such as […]

How to Handle File Transfer in Secure Networks

In most organizations, regardless of industry, file transfers happen all day, every day. These transfers take place in the forms of data exchanges like email, network shares, homegrown File Transfer Protocol (FTP) tools, and even free online FTP services. Every employee shares information, internally or externally, throughout the day, which raises security concerns. It may […]

Eye-Opening Discoveries About Help Desk Security and What to Do

It’s every customer and employee’s right to ask for and receive assistance from the IT help desk. The help desk team is obligated to, well, help. It is also their duty to maintain the secrecy and confidentiality of any and all privileged information. This means that in addition to providing technical support quickly and efficiently, […]

Your Help Desk Can Be a Powerful Ally in Maintaining HIPAA Compliance

Each industry has standards and regulatory compliance concerns. The health care industry arguably has the most well-known, thanks to the Health Insurance and Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) and its efforts to keep electronic protected health information (ePHI) safe. HIPAA compliance is essential for organizations that store, maintain or transmit ePHI and staying on top of […]

DDoS Revived – IoT Based Botnets

Just as ISPs, hosting companies, businesses, and even consumers were beginning to close down the vulnerabilities that enable computers to become zombies – botnets – a new class of hosts arrives. Always online, Internet-facing, with hardcoded (often in the firmware) default passwords, the smart thermostat, webcam, digital video recorder, or consumer router-zombie is here. This […]

Get These 4 Things Right to Prevent Security Breaches

According to the Verizon 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report, there have been 79,790 security incidents reported. This amounts to around 218 security incidents per day, or, roughly about 10 incidents an hour. Oh, and here’s the best part: 60% of the attackers are able to compromise an organization’s data within minutes. That’s MINUTES! These statistics […]