A number of organizations are on track to review privileged online activity with reviews due for completion in the next two years. These reviews are expected to cut down on data theft and leakage by around one-third. In the meantime, there are a few things your IT department can do to manage privileged accounts and ensure data security within your organization. 1. Inventory Accounts and Account...
Keep ReadingNot much wrecks your day like losing your computer files. It might be ten years of family photos. It could be the payroll list for your company. It might be the proofs for a manuscript. Documents like these can’t be replaced easily. It can take days of effort to recover or rebuild, and you may never achieve results that even remotely resemble the items you had before. The value of your lost ...
Keep ReadingSecurity has always been a major concern when it comes to computer systems and data management. And while society as a whole has become more aware of basic networking and protections, hackers and criminals have become far more sophisticated over the last decade. Every day 82,000 malware threats are released into networks, with banking and other high priority business systems being the biggest targ...
Keep ReadingCERBER: AN UNINVITED GUEST YOU MUST PAY TO LEAVE There’s a new strain of ransomware, yet again, and it goes by the name of Cerber. Cerber in itself has a new feature that makes it quite odd, it speaks to you....
Keep ReadingAlmost every business has an online presence today. Whether it be a website or payroll database, a lot of work gets done via the Internet. And, why not? Technology has made it easy for businesses, such as mine, to save, share and communicate. The cloud, in particular, allows me to send data in real-time. An employee on one coast can make changes to a document that their counterpart 3,000 miles awa...
Keep ReadingMany small businesses struggle to share information across different departments. We recently received a call from a client who needed help integrating their remote workers into day-to-day operations. They were having a particularly difficult time making sure every team member had the information they needed to make effective decisions. They didn’t need to simply share documents. They also n...
Keep ReadingMajor news sites have been exploited by hackers using a malware exploit package known as the “Angle exploit kit.” Some of the targeted sites include The New York Times, BBC, Newsweek, AOL, MSN, The Hill, and the Guardian. A bit of dark humor is in that one of the infected news pages was a Guardian article asking if cybercrime was getting out of hand. In laymen’s terms—thes...
Keep ReadingCloud services have proven to be very proficient for businesses, but now a certain kind has proven to be proficient and help businesses gain astronomical amounts in profit. Since using this type of cloud services, many companies’ profits have grown in the few hundred percentile range. This cloud service is known as Microsoft Cloud. And even though they have proven to be reliable, trustworthy...
Keep ReadingWhen employees email and surf the web with company computers, it is legal to monitor their usage, but is it ethical? Monitoring can help prevent employee theft, sabotage, or lawsuits. For example, your company may be legally liable if an employee spends time on websites with illegal content, or downloads material from the Web that contains child pornography. Monitoring can provide proof that th...
Keep ReadingThere’s a new strain of ransomware, yet again, and it goes by the name of Cerber. Cerber in itself has a new feature that makes it quite odd, it speaks to you. Yes, not only do you get to enjoy knowing your systems are infected with ransomware, but you also get to hear it. Over, and over, and over again. It drops 3 #DECRYPTMEFILES# onto your computer, using the standard TXT format, HTML, an...
Keep ReadingHiring the perfect MSP for your company is very beneficial. But how do you go about it? It can be hard sometimes to run a business and make big decisions on who’s going to be protecting its success. Managed service providers manage, monitor, and maintain your information technology. They even stop problems before they cause any downtime within your company, which is crucial. You need an MSP...
Keep ReadingOutsourcing your IT can be one of the smartest moves you do. Technology is truly one of the most important aspects of your business – it holds all of your confidential information within its confines and allows you to collaborate with others with ease. And it’s crucial you keep that technology safe and reliable to maintain the success of your business. It can be quite intimidating whe...
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