Posts Tagged ‘cybersecurity’
14 Ways to Ensure Your Work From Home Employees Are Secure
Security can be tricky in the controlled environment of the office. Now, many employees are working from home, making the problem even more difficult. The is especially true considering many employees are working from home as the result of a government ordered quarantine rather than a well-planned transition to a work-from-home environment. If you don’t…
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10 Ways to Ensure Your Virtual Meetings Remain Secure
Recent world events have brought significant changes to the workflow of nearly every business across every industry. Even businesses that weathered the first economic impact have needed to adapt their business model to all-new safety precautions. One of the single most common results of this is remote employees and the need for virtual meetings. A…
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How to Build a Small Business Network Security Plan
For 2019, the global average cost of a data breach is $3.92 million. Can your company afford to lose that much? Probably not. In fact, 60% of small businesses close their doors within 6 months after a cyberattack. It may seem like a scary statistic, but the fact is, you can prevent this from happening to your business…
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Keeping Your Zoom Meetings Safe from Zoom-bombing
Since the Coronavirus pandemic has much of the world sheltering in place, thousands of small businesses and companies are using popular videoconferencing services like Zoom. Unfortunately, as the popularity of Zoom has grown sharply, attacks called “Zoom-bombing” have grown at a commensurate rate. Zoom-bombing involves unauthorized parties gaining access to your Zoom meetings to harass…
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Why cybersecurity is even more important when you’re remote
With the onset of and response to COVID-19, the odds are increasingly likely that your company has shifted to a remote work setup for the employees that can do so. Remote work can change the way you do business – some ways for the better and in other ways that can challenge you. One concern…
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What can IT do about the CoronaVirus?
I want to preface this post by saying that the CoronaVirus is a horrible disease that’s having a devastating impact on not only individuals and families but entire communities, regions, and industries. Our hearts and prayers are with everyone impacted and we hope this problem is resolved quickly. With that said, CEO’s and Business Owners…
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What Does End of Life Mean for Windows 7?
Time is up for Windows 7. Users have to move on, one way or another. As of January 14, 2020, Microsoft won’t offer any more support for the operating system. There will be no updates and no security patches. Continuing to use it on the Internet will be like walking through a malaria-infested swamp with…
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Trick or treat: I know your password!
A few months ago, some rather creative hackers came up with a pretty ingenious con. They realized they could create an email like the one below pretending to have hacked your computer and installed malware that has allowed them to watch you surf the internet and even video what you were doing while surfing the…
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Data Privacy in 2019, did we learn anything from Cambridge Analytica?
It seems so long ago. When Cambridge Analytica first entered the realm of public consciousness, last year, it was as a shady marketing company that may or may not helped to elect the next President of the United States through illegal means. At the time, it seemed like a breakthrough moment in data privacy. A…
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Social Engineering, Whale Phishing, Spearphishing? Avoid Being a Victim
In 1992, Kevin Mitnick was the most wanted hacker in the United States. It didn’t stop him. He wanted to hack his phone so the cops couldn’t track it. This ended up with him going after the source code, which he obtained with just a few phone calls. So-called social engineering remains, nearly thirty years…
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