Is Your Network at Risk for Cyber Attacks?

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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…

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Business Email Compromise (BEC) Has Become the One of the Most Financially Damaging Cybercrimes

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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…

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Top Cybersecurity Threats for 2023

Top 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…

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Why Cybersecurity is Essential for Small & Medium Business

Why 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.…

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Why Managed Cyber Security Makes Sense for Small Business

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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…

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Business 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…

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What 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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Protection Against Phishing and Ransomware

Protection against phishing and ransomware attacks

Now we know what cyber threats are capable of and where they come from, let’s take a close look at how to protect your systems from two of the most common forms of cyber attack – phishing and ransomware.  Protect your business against phishing attacks   Phishing is an attempt to trick you into giving access…

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The Sources of Cyber Threats 

The sources of cyber threats

In the previous articles we explored cyber threats and some of the different types of attack that – if successful – can cause severe problems for your business. Now we will explore where those attacks come from and some of the best tools and methods to ensure that your organization is well defended .  Cyber…

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Cyber Threats – The Types of Attack 

Cyber Threats the types of attack

In our previous article we explored why your small business may be a prime target for cyber threats. In this article, we’ll go over the type of threats your business could face if unprotected. The Most Common Types of Cyber Threats  Malware  Malware is software that is designed specifically to cause problems, and is used…

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