Category Archives: Security

Why Your Business Needs a Network Assessment as Soon as Possible

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With your company’s network ever-growing, it can be nearly impossible to know precisely what is occurring on all fronts of your IT infrastructure. That’s why regular assessments should be a crucial part of a proper cybersecurity strategy to keep your business safe. Keeping your business running smoothly is ideal. However, with threats such as network[…]

Why Your Employees Need Cyber Awareness Training in 2020

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Imagine the following scenario: You log in to your desktop, and you can’t access any of your data. It turns out that your entire business has been infected by ransomware, and now hackers want thousands of dollars. Would you know what to do in this situation? What about your employees? Unfortunately, this scenario plays out[…]

Business Continuity: A Proactive Approach to Minimizing Network Downtime

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The present-day business environment is subject to many threats that can cause downtime. Malware attacks, power interruptions, IT disasters and network downtime have a massive impact on the operations of any business. Having a business continuity plan, however, helps minimize downtime and keep operations running smoothly, even when issues do occur. Business continuity is a[…]

How to Become HIPAA Compliant

The Identity Theft Resource Center documents that the healthcare industry is one of the most targeted by cybercriminals. In 2018 alone, almost 15.1 million patients’ details were compromised. This presents the need to ensure that your medical practice has state-of-the-art cybersecurity. HIPAA laws also stipulate that it is your responsibility to protect all of your[…]

How to Spot a Phishing Email

It’s easy to imagine a cybercriminal or hacker sitting at a computer writing complex codes designed to break into your office network. But in reality, a cyberattack can be as simple as an email. In fact, 90% of all data breaches include a phishing element. The cleverness of a phishing email is that it relies[…]

The Pros and Cons of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and How to Manage It

Pros and Cons of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

BYOD, or Bring Your Own Device, policies let employees use their personal smartphones, laptops and other devices at work. BYOD has become so popular that about 65% of employees already use their personal devices at work. But before you jump on the BYOD bandwagon, it’s important to learn about the pros and cons to help you decide[…]

How to Avoid Potential Network Failures

For small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), an IT network failure can be devastating because you don’t have the resources of large corporations to bounce back from such disasters. Preparation against such devastation may be the only course for you to avoid failure and survive with the least damage if failure occurs. SMBs must be proactive[…]