Cybersecurity
Safeguarding Your Business: The Importance of Backup and Disaster Recovery
Businesses heavily rely on digital data to operate efficiently. From critical financial records to customer information and proprietary software, our data is the lifeblood of modern organizations. However, with the ever-increasing risk of cyber threats, natural disasters, hardware failures, and human errors, it has become paramount for businesses to implement a robust Backup and Disaster…
Read MoreThe Rise of Cyber Risk During the Summer Months
Like most criminals, hackers and cyber thieves look for opportunities and weaknesses to exploit. Your business may have reasonably good network security protocols in place, and hopefully you’ve trained your employees to watch for suspicious emails. The summer months don’t necessarily bring out more cybercriminals, but they do tend to create vulnerabilities, heightening your risk.…
Read MoreCompliance and Security in the Cloud
As you use more businesses services in the Cloud, giving you scalability and cost savings, remember you need to trust the security and compliance of your services, wherever they live. Your cloud services likely come from multiple providers, because you added services as they became available. Because your business systems are critical to business, and contain…
Read MoreIs Your Network at Risk for Cyber Attacks?
In today’s digital age, cybersecurity has become essential for small businesses. With increasing technological advancements and the rise of cyber attacks, small businesses are becoming increasingly vulnerable to data breaches, cyber theft, and other malicious activities. As a small business owner, protecting your business against cyber threats will help you: In this blog, we will explore…
Read MoreBusiness Email Compromise (BEC) Has Become the One of the Most Financially Damaging Cybercrimes
Business owners should no longer be thinking about cybercrime as something perpetuated by a lone wolf. Cybercrime is now organized crime. Small businesses are the most vulnerable. Business Email Compromise (BEC) is one of the latest and costliest schemes. What is Business Email Compromise? BEC is essentially where a cybercriminal spoofs a business email account…
Read MoreTop Cybersecurity Threats for 2023
This New Year predicts some “oldies but baddies” that we all still need to watch for, along with some newer, more evolved, and dare we say, more efficient schemes. As if Covid, the economy, and inflation have not made things difficult enough for small businesses, cybercriminals are now specifically preying on businesses that have become…
Read MoreWhy Cybersecurity is Essential for Small & Medium Business
What is a Cybersecurity Breach? In simplest terms, a cybersecurity breach is any unauthorized access to your computer systems. That can be as simple as an employee innocently accessing sensitive files that should have been password protected all the way up to a criminal shutdown of your entire network and theft of all your data.…
Read MoreWhy Managed Cyber Security Makes Sense for Small Business
Nearly half of all data breaches happen to SMBs. And over half of all SMBs reported a cyber incident within the past year. Your small business is not flying under the radar – it’s a direct target for cybercriminals. They know that nearly half of all small businesses have no cybersecurity plan in place, which…
Read MoreBusiness Email Imposters
What Are They and How do You Deal with Them? Businesses are constantly under attack by online scammers and opportunists. You may do every update, keep an eye on your system at all times, and install strong firewalls. But, if you click on one bad link or your password gets leaked from somewhere else, your…
Read MoreWhat To Do If Your Business Is Hacked
The IT technology we use everyday to make our work easier also makes it easier for criminals to access our data. The more technology advances, the smarter hackers become, with many tools and techniques at their disposal to break into your company’s system. If you detect a cyber attack on your systems, you must react…
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