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Security
Cybercrime- It’s a Grim Picture for Businesses
Cybercrime Paints a Grim Picture for Businesses: Over the past year, entrepreneurs have focused on how to do business during the global COVID-19 pandemic. The public health crisis has been an opportunity for fraudsters and hackers, and the result has been an increase in losses (compared to the...
Ransomware: It Shouldn’t Cost You a Thing
Today, we will talk about ransomware, how there are different strategies, and how some people want to put a ban on ransomware payments. If fortune smiles on your company, you won’t ever have to deal with what we are about to discuss: ransomware. For the past several years ransomware has been a...
Employee Monitoring: How Not to Cross the Line
Of all the contentious topics in the workplace, employee monitoring is among the most divisive. As an authority figure in your business, it is only natural that you would want to make sure that your team is working diligently—especially as they are working remotely. That being said, there are some...
Four Key Components of Successful Network Security
Nowadays, a business’ network security needs to be amongst its top priorities if it is to have any chance of operating without undue risk of data breaches and other incidents. Admittedly, managing this sounds like a Herculean task, but a few relatively simple implementations can help give your...
When the People You Trust Phish You
Having success in business often relies on developing trustworthy relationships versus ones that phish you. You have to trust your vendors and suppliers to get you the resources you need, you need to trust your staff to complete their tasks without putting your business in harm's way, and you need...
Paying a Ransom Demand Could Get Even More Expensive
When it comes to ransomware, we have always stood firm in our recommendation not to pay a ransom demand to whoever is responsible for locking down your systems. However, due to the globalized nature of technology and cybercrime, it is even more important that companies don’t attempt to placate...
Zoom Security: Its Efforts to Improve
As a communication tool, the video conferencing app Zoom saw a considerable bump in its popularity with both personal and business users as the coronavirus pandemic made other means of meeting no longer viable. However, this sudden increase in its user base also revealed some serious security...
How You Can Work Toward a Better IT Vendor Relationship
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...
What Would Happen if All Data Was Publically Available?
What if I were to tell you that, by the time you finished reading this sentence, all personal data in existence was exposed? If every text sent, every Google search executed, every website visited, everything we had ever done online, was made public? Gizmodo recently reached out to an assortment...