Many businesses are familiar with ‘phishing’ and have taken the measures necessary to protect themselves. However, there are other common cyber-attacks that your business need to be aware of. Most attacks target infecting businesses with ransomware. In this article, we’ll focus on how it works and what businesses can do to keep themselves safe. Definition
So, you’ve set up a guest WiFi network at your business. You’re going to keep your business WiFi safe and keep the bad guys out of your network. You’re all set, right? Unfortunately, simply setting up a guest WiFi network is not enough to ensure you’ll keep guests from doing suspicious things on the network and from seeing your
You probably change the password on your iPhone frequently, because the phone reminds you. Passwords for computers and e-mails also get frequently changed and updated when the system reminds us. For social media accounts and online baking, even if the passwords don’t get updated, they are often unique and created by you. But there are
The ongoing health crisis has led to a dramatic increase in businesses doing business from home. Such relocations protect workers from exposure to a physical virus, but at the same time, create vulnerability to online viruses and hackers that can quickly ravage and destroy a business. Whatever your product or service might be, there are
It’s Monday morning and your inbox is full. You grab a fresh cup of coffee and begin to work your way through them. About halfway through your inbox, you find a Microsoft email telling you a message can’t be transcribed. further, the email provides a phone number and a message length with a link to
Innovation is essential to business survival. Without it, businesses end up like Blockbuster and Eastman Kodak instead of Netflix or Apple. No one understands innovation better than cybercriminals. They are constantly creating new ways to bypass threat detection to gain access to your network and your data. According to Verizon’s 2019 report, 71% of data breaches
You’ve heard the horror stories of ransomware. Cybercriminals access and encrypt your business data. You have to pay a “ransom” for the key to unlock it or, assuming you have them, restore from backups. Leakware is similar, but now the bad actors are threatening to post your confidential business information online if you don’t pay
Recently Apple and the US government had a very public showdown over hacking an iPhone for a legal case. This brought a lot of attention to the subject of mobile encryption and securing data but many still do not understand how it works or what it even means. Every small business wants to make sure
2016 Small Business Cybersecurity Safeguards The increasing threat of cyberattacks against small businesses requires a reassessment of the tools and services used to monitor and secure company data and customer information. Why Small Businesses Need Advanced Cybersecurity If the past few years have taught us anything about cybersecurity, it was that nothing should be dismissed
When your firm is juggling network security across many devices and settings — i.e. smart phones, tablets, office systems — the burden of keeping everything safe becomes overwhelming. Companies should learn from the mistakes of others. The four major security fails below have contributed to some of the biggest security breaches in history. If you