First, are your servers backed up to the cloud? The use of online backup will continue to grow. Organizations are finding out, sometimes the hard way, the importance of being able to restore data quickly. Downtime can be extremely expensive for some organizations, so...
A security vulnerability, that has existed for 10 years, has only recently been discovered. A patch for Linux has been released and Microsoft plans to release a patch next Tuesday. Apple will release a patch for OSX. For understandable reasons, many organizations are...
Because many families, and business professionals, received new tablets for the holidays, it is important to consider security. Families, as well as businesses, may choose to restrict permissions on devices. Here’s how: Set a passcode on the device. Even a 4-digit...
First, the attacker population is outpacing the ability to control them. Attacks are trending higher at an ever-increasing rate. Be extra security-diligent. Second, ransomware, software that prevents you from accessing your information until you pay a ransom,...
In our experience of auditing after breaches have happened, about half were caused by a service provider working for the company that gets breached. Almost always, the vendor or contractor had no malicious intent. Their organization’s own IT systems were not secure,...
