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Security
How Employees Can Cause a Threat, and How to Avoid Them
How Employees Can Cause a Threat, and How to Avoid Them: What would you consider to be the biggest threat to your business and its continued operations? Cybercrime? A natural disaster? What if I told you that it was the team members that you have employed—whether they meant to be or not? This is...
Are Your Employees’ Smartwatches Security Risks?
Are Your Employees’ Smartwatches Security Risks? The smartwatch is one of the most popular gifts given to technology lovers; and, they have quite a bit of utility. They can help improve communication, health, and of course give them a sleek accessory. One problem that people don’t often consider...
With Remote Operations, Security is (Even More) Important
With Remote Operations, Security is (Even More) Important! Since the beginning of the COVID 19 pandemic, it has been clear that many companies were not prepared to continue their operations remotely. This was largely due to their leadership being convinced in recent years that allowing people to...
The Retirement of Adobe Flash Player Means to Your Business
What the Retirement of Adobe Flash Player Means to Your Business: Once December 31st brings the New Year around, support for the once-popular Adobe Flash Player will officially end. Hopefully it will not impact yours! Of course, it isn’t every day that a 24-year-old software system is taken out of...
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...