Many business executives view cybersecurity as a technical problem to be handled by the geeks in the IT department. However, cybersecurity is very much a business problem that demands thoughtful investment and a strategic approach. Generally speaking, cybersecurity can be broken down into four major categories: prevention, education, detection and response. Prevention encompasses many of [...]
According to the Breach Level Index, nearly 5 million data records are stolen each day, which equates to 58 records every second. Of course, these figures only account for known and reported breaches. While high-profile incidents involving household names like Equifax and Yahoo make headlines, smaller data breaches are often kept under wraps. Also, the [...]
Ransomware. Malvertising. Phishing. Distributed Denial of Service. All variants of cyberattacks seem to be growing to record levels, putting the pressure on network administrators to detect and mitigate threats. Remote network monitoring solutions can relieve the pressure and dramatically improve your ability to keep cybercriminals at bay. In a recent survey of IT professionals conducted [...]
Most users have at least some sense of the risks posed by social media. Businesses face many of those same risks, as well as other threats that can increase the odds of a successful security breach. Thieves often use Facebook posts to find houses to burglarize while families are on vacation. Similarly, hackers mine LinkedIn [...]
When the notorious thief Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he reportedly replied: “That’s where the money is.” Hackers have a similarly simple motivation for targeting senior executives and other key managers. They have the best data. Law enforcement officials and information security experts have noted a significant rise in the number of [...]
Convenience and immediacy make instant messaging (IM) a popular collaboration tool. Underlying presence technology allows users to instantly see who is online and available, which makes it easy for groups of coworkers to share ideas, files, text, images, links, code and more. The problem is that there is very little oversight of IM. Although consumer [...]
In one of his more popular compositions, the legendary jazz pianist Fats Waller advised: “Find out what they like, and how they like it, and let ‘em have it just that way.” The song is nearly 100 years old by now, but the message applies to the software needs of today’s workforce. When employees can’t [...]
In our last post, we explained why small to midsize businesses (SMBs) need to have a cybersecurity plan. Cyberattacks targeting SMBs are becoming more frequent and more expensive to remediate. Having a plan in place and following best practices goes a long way toward protecting systems and data. One of the biggest challenges organizations face [...]
Many small to midsize businesses (SMBs) operate under the assumption that hackers only target large enterprises. These SMBs believe they have nothing of value for cybercriminals to steal, or that they’re too small or obscure to be noticed. That’s a very dangerous assumption. In a recent survey of 1,069 owners of U.S. businesses with fewer [...]
Google has announced that non-HTTPS (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure) websites will have a security warning in all future editions of its Chrome web browser. In other words, HTTP websites will be labeled as “not secure.” In an age of high-profile data breaches, ransomware and seemingly endless security threats, what do you suppose a “not [...]
