Phishing just never seems to go away and remains the most dangerous threat to company networks. Phishing relies on the ability of the message to trick the user, and this is unfortunately easily done in many cases. Employees continue to fall for phishing emails for several reasons, including: Phishing continues to get harder to spot…
The holiday season has officially arrived, and online shopping is the sport of the season. It’s important for employers to address safe holiday shopping with their teams, even if this seems like more of a personal subject than corporate. The reason the companies should be invested in safe holiday shopping education is that approximately 69%…
Any time of year is good to do IT upgrades that can help your business remain productive and improve your capabilities. But doing them at the end of the year provides a little extra incentive. Paybacks through tax deductions that you can get in just a few months (or weeks if you’re an early filer)….
Trying to come up with fresh cybersecurity awareness content for your employees can be challenging. It’s not something that is usually high on the priority list for companies, yet it’s important to continue to drive home the message of a cyber secure workplace. Security of IT systems has become of major importance to businesses of…
Do you know all the apps your employees are using? It’s become harder for companies to keep unauthorized cloud use under control due to the increase in work-from-home (WFH) staff. When working from home, employees are often using their personal computers. When disconnected from the office, staff also often feel freer to explore new work…
Approximately 97% of U.S. adults own a cell phone. The 2020 Census states that there are approximately 258.3 million adults in the U.S., which equates to a whole lot of mobile numbers for carriers to keep track of. When it comes to company-owned phones, there can be several numbers that a company is responsible for….
While businesses were laser-focused on securing computers and servers, devoting much of their IT security budgets to protecting them from a breach, mobile devices have become a major threat. The rise of business cloud apps and mobile device capabilities have created an environment where mobile devices are used to handle about 80% of the work…
The massive gas shortages caused by the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline have gone away, but the rise in gas prices is still being felt around the country. When Colonial Pipeline was hit with ransomware on May 7th, the pipeline that supplies 45% of the East Coast’s gas, diesel, and other petroleum-based products was shut down…
Attacks on firmware have been increasing steadily, more than doubling each year over the last four years. It used to be one of those areas of a system that hackers didn’t pay a lot of attention to. However, as more high-profile firmware attacks have happened, it’s become open season on this hardware-specific software. Firmware is…
When you’re building your layers of cybersecurity, you need to consider several different protections, beyond the most obvious.
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