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Security
How You Can Make IT’s Life Easier
Business relationships, especially between you and a service provider or you and a coworker, are crucial to a business’ success. However, maintaining these relationships can be challenging when there’s a good chance that your actions might create more work for another person. Let’s go over why...
Cybersecurity Companies: What to Look For
Selecting among cybersecurity companies out there is no small task. Modern security threats now impact small businesses as well as large enterprise companies. In fact, cybersecurity incidents now cost businesses of all sizes $200,000 on average, reveals insurance carrier Hiscox. When evaluating a...
Are VPNs Really Secure?
We’ve not been shy about promoting the use of VPNs (virtual private networks) as a means of protecting your security while you are online. However, we wanted to take a bit of time to specify what a VPN can - and cannot - do to help you. Understanding What a VPN Is A VPN is a tool that enables you...
Comparing the Relative Danger of AI-Aided Crimes
When we think of cybercrime, most people’s minds go to one of two places. On the one hand, some think about the annoying, misspelled emails that are so obviously scams, while on the other, we can’t help but think about the hacks that we see in movies, where a criminal manages to overcome the best...
Ransomware is Still a Major Threat
Ransomware is the scariest type of malware out there. It can have a myriad of negative effects on a business, yet it seems to still be on the fringe of the mainstream. Today, we thought we would give somewhat of a refresher course on ransomware. What is Ransomware? Simply put, ransomware is...
How Cybercriminals Are Keeping Themselves Entertained
With the given pandemic, a lot of people have had a bit more time on their hands, so it makes sense that many are turning to streaming services and the like for their entertainment. Unfortunately, this has not gone unnoticed by cybercriminals. Let’s take a few moments and examine the practice of...
Do You Know How to Build Solid Passwords?
The password is the core element of both data security and user authentication. This makes the construction of them extremely important to protecting digital assets. Unfortunately, not everyone understands how to construct passwords that actually work to protect the information on the other side....
Employment Scams Have Recently Exploded
With COVID-19 creating an unsure situation for so many businesses, and by extension their employees, these employees are suddenly finding themselves in a vulnerable position. Regardless of whether or not your employees are able to come into the office right now, it is important that you share the...
What We Can Learn from Some Foreboding Security Predictions
With the COVID-19 crisis far from over, many businesses have had their attention pulled away from their cybersecurity needs by the concerns that the current health crisis has generated. Here, we’ll be reviewing some of the observations that a group of 273 cybersecurity professionals have made,...
Let’s Help You Understand PCI Compliance
Nowadays, every business accepts payment cards. To protect people’s personal and financial information when conducting transactions using credit, debit, and gift cards, the companies that stand to lose the most if these transactions are compromised: Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and American...