Cybersecurity

No matter where your business is physically located, the network it runs on lives in the seediest of places, where thieves, vandals, and extortionists lurk. If you could see how they’re watching you, how they’re disguising themselves and tricking your employees, you’d be alarmed enough to actively secure your network. Threats to your company’s network…

USB drives, sometimes called thumb drives, jump drives or flash drives – any USB device you may use to store and transport data, could be spreading malware. These may seem like old school devices that fly way under the radar for cybercriminals, but it’s the fact that they are overlooked and not thought of as…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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.…