If your organization is ready to get your IT security on track, where do you start? Too little security opens up your organization to unnecessary risk and too much security interferes with productivity. Here’s a five-phase checklist to help guide you through the process of launching your IT security program: Phase 1: Choose a pre-prepared checklist or assessment For …
To stay on the curve with IT security, your organization’s thinking needs to continually evolve. Threats keep changing and coming at you faster and from more directions. While protecting your IT perimeter has long been the way to go, new challenges, including cloud computing and the ability for employees (and others) to access your data …
If your business has a traditional IT environment or a hybrid environment that blends a traditional IT environment with cloud services, it helps to think about protecting it like you would protect a fort. Don’t let the bad guys come over your walls! Here’s how to fortify your IT traditional ecosystem to stave off breaches, …
Remember back when “You’ve got mail” was a thing? When people used dial-up to get online and called 411 to get phone numbers? When computer hackers were tech geeks who lived in their moms’ basements? A lot has changed in the tech world since 1998 (the year Leapfrog was founded!) and cybercrime is no exception. …
If there’s a disaster at your headquarters or in your neighborhood, who, exactly, will execute your Disaster Recovery (DR) plan? Which employees will stay behind and how will they manage their responsibilities if safety is an issue or if their families need them? People come first, of course. None of this is pleasant to think …
Nasty, lazy cybercriminals have found one of the best ways ever to free you from your money — ransomware. For them, it’s like pennies from heaven. They can spread ransomware with very little effort and then sit back and watch the money roll in from victims who want their data back. This post is a …
One major IT lesson so far from this season’s back-to-back hurricanes is the importance of having out-of-region help when it comes to disaster recovery (DR). When faced with a physical crisis — one that requires staff to evacuate or threatens your location — there may be no time for IT to make sure failover to …
Organizations are lining up to switch to Disaster Recovery as a Solution (DRaaS) — but why now? After more than a decade of cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) availability, what is it about today’s DRaaS that’s making it so appealing, even to enterprises? It’s all about the software. And cost-effectiveness. And rerouting ease. And security, to …
Every company needs disaster recovery (DR) planning but how do you determine what’s appropriate for your organization? Whether you’ve had a scare with a recent DR event, heard about one in the news, or have been meaning to revisit your plan, now is a great time to ask these 10 questions: 1. How long can …
If your small or medium-sized business works with large companies, you may soon be facing a cybersecurity hurdle that separates the players from the wannabes. Enterprises are now beginning to incorporate IT security requirements into their standard RFPs and bidding processes. They want their partners and vendors to take security as seriously as they do, …