Does your business have a Chief Information Officer (CIO) or Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) who’s in charge of your cybersecurity budget? Most small and medium-sized businesses do not. So it’s usually up to the CEO or CFO. And while they may be brilliant at their jobs, keeping up with IT may not be their …
Determining whether or not your business has been breached is one of the toughest tasks in the IT universe. Skilled hackers are great at finding vulnerabilities, being patient, covering their tracks and not raising suspicions. They can spend a lot of time in your network looking around and often steal information a little at a …
No one likes to think about disasters. There are other things to think about, plus there’s often no immediate payoff. But if you run a business, just like if you run a household, not planning ahead can add more disasters on top of the first one! Here’s how the planning you do at home is …
If you think your company is ready for a disaster because you backup every day, or that you don’t need to back up because you have highly redundant servers or storage, think again! High availability, disaster recovery and business continuity planning are separate yet interconnected aspects of your IT ecosystem. Here’s an overview of the …
Hawaii’s false alarm incident earlier this year was a teachable moment for organizations — how prepared is yours when it comes to emergency communications? While you’re probably not responsible for notifying an entire state about an incoming attack, you are responsible for telling stakeholders what’s going on if there’s an emergency. Emergency communications as part …
February 2018: Every year there’s a flurry of activity surrounding taxes — forms to collect, information to gather, people to contact — that are outside of normal day-to-day operations. This is catnip to scammers. To protect your organization (and employees, partners, and vendors) against fraud, train your employees how to spot a tax scam and …
If you tried to get on Amazon, Twitter, Netflix, Shopify or some other popular web services on October 21, you may have had a tough time. A company called Dyn, which provides a critical link between the URL you type in and the IP address you’re directed to, suffered a massive distributed denial of service …
December 2017: With 90% of all cyber attacks originating from email, it’s time for your organization to step up its email security game. The latest spam filters alone aren’t enough protection. Today’s most dangerous threats come from spear phishing scams that circumvent filters. The best next-generation email security is smart — literally. It goes beyond …
What’s the single most important thing you can do to protect your business from cybercrime? Have good firewalls and anti-malware? It’s actually more analog than that — it’s training your employees to spot and react to scams. All the advanced perimeter technology in the world won’t help if your employees inadvertently hand criminals the keys. …
November 2017: When it comes to cybersecurity, there are two things your organization needs to be doing right now — multi-factor authentication (MFA) and data encryption. Hackers have become too sophisticated to be stopped by yesterday’s security policies. Implementing encryption or MFA (or both) may not be as easy as flipping a switch but it’s …