Password Management Best Practice
Employees can be a company’s great asset, but they remain the weakest link in terms of cyber security. An online security survey conducted by Google identified that a whopping 65% of people use the same password for multiple or all accounts.
Unforeseen disasters can strike at any time, and when they do, your business could come to a grinding halt. Having a business continuity plan could prevent this from happening by securing your valuable business data at another location. But all too often, data backup can be too complicated for the average IT personnel to manage.
Five Security Solutions to Protect Your Organization from Cyber Attacks
Your organization is under attack! Cyber crime is a global business, and the cyber criminals profit by preying on organizations that are not prepared to defend themselves.
Did you know…
There is a ransomware attack every 14 seconds
1/2 of all cyber security attacks are targeted at small businesses
Most small businesses go out of business within 6 months of a cyber attack
The cyber crime economy has grown to $1.5 trillion / year
I'm assuming that your organization already has the security basics in place like firewalls, antivirus & backups.
Wireless networking isn’t going anywhere, and neither are the “bad guys” who are interested in penetrating your wireless network security. For this reason, we have wireless encryption like WEP, WPA, and WPA2. The next best thing is here, WPA3. Listed below are some great new features.
In today’s world, almost everyone owns a smart phone device. Not only do cyber criminals want to hack into your computer, they also want to gain access to your phone. Many people fail to realize that just because your phone is close by your side and not in someone else’s’ possession, that your information is safe and secure.
What is NIST 800-171?
The Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) 252.204.7012 establishes NIST 800-171 as the minimum security standard a contractor should have to adequately protect Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). This publication was issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). NIST 800-171 provides guidance for the protection of CUI when processed, stored and used in non-federal information systems.
It’s becoming more and more difficult to ensure privacy and security in the applications we use today. Microsoft is well aware of the anxiety that Office 365 users face, which is why they recently introduced these new security capabilities in Outlook, OneDrive, and its apps.
What is GDPR?
The General Data Protection Regulation better known as GDPR is Europe's new framework for data protection laws. These new privacy and security laws have been designed to give European Union (EU) citizens more control over their data. GDPR modernizes laws and obligations across Europe in this internet-connected age.
If you follow the news you have probably already heard of the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities affecting a large portion of the processors used in computers, tablets and smartphones. But you may be asking yourself, what are they really? Am I at risk? What can I do about it?
What are Meltdown and Spectre?
No, they aren't James Bond movies (technically one of them was). Meltdown is an exploit that allows attacks to bypass the layer between applications and hardware to access the computer's memory.