Imagine your worst fears realized: you open your laptop first thing Monday morning, prepared to answer a stream of emails from clients and vendors, only to encounter a frozen account with a message demanding thousands in bitcoin in order to ...
Last year’s many stories of ransomware attacks and other cyber threats garnered much attention from the general public. With data breaches affecting major companies the likes of Twitter, Uber, and, ironically, LastPass, our hope was that these attacks might decelerate ...
How a Security Culture Protects Your Business With experts predicting cybercrime costs for businesses worldwide to increase roughly 15% per year over the next five years, hitting $10.5 trillion by 2025, most companies understand the need for protective measures. Cybersecurity ...
YOU’RE NOT TOO SMALL TO BE HACKED You’re Just Too Small to be on The News Equifax, Colonial Pipeline, Target, and Facebook all have one devastating thing in common: each of these companies has suffered a widespread cybersecurity breach in ...
Security in a business environment encompasses a wide variety of tactics, ranging from physical to technical and beyond. Unfortunately, these defenses are sometimes a reaction to known threats, while the criminals continue to create new, unforeseen threats. Protecting your business ...
For the average internet user, the “dark web” represents a murky unknown world of criminals and cyber threats. News media often reports health records, credit card numbers, passwords, and other important personal information being sold on this platform, but arming ...
Both Large and Small Businesses MUST Invest in Cybersecurity The Colonial Pipeline and Equifax cybersecurity breaches may make for dramatic headlines, but they also enforce an unfortunate myth that small or lesser-known companies are off the radar for hackers. To ...
Frightening headlines about the Colonial Pipeline hack and Russian cybersecurity attacks on government agencies tend to overlook the tremendous risk that small businesses themselves face. In fact, in 2020, 43% of small businesses experienced some form of cyber attack, with ...
The FTC’s Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information, known as the Safeguards Rule, requires that entities that handle consumer data follow specific guidelines to protect that information. Here’s what your business needs to know and do NOW as the December 9, ...
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is essentially a technology that allows you to make voice calls using a broadband Internet connection instead of a traditional (or analog) phone line. VoIP converts your voice into a digital signal that typically travels ...
