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A New Opportunity for Your IT Pros to Protect your Servers

by Mike Foster | Mar 29, 2018 | Best Practices, Cybersecurity, IT Best Practices, IT Pro Tips, Preventative IT Security Breach

Attackers can take advantage of a large attack surface on your servers. Your IT professionals can drastically reduce the attack surface, and potentially save you money. When your IT team logs onto a server, the server’s screen looks similar to what you would...

How Buying a Spare Printer can Vastly Improve Your Cyber Security

by Mike Foster | Feb 16, 2018 | Best Practices, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, IT Best Practices, IT Pro Tips

Imagine a scenario when an IT professional knows there is an urgent security problem in your firewall that needs to be addressed. And at the same time, your multi-function printer is broken. What problem will the IT professional address first? Most IT professionals...

When Trusted Programs get Hacked: An Attacker May Be Putting Germs on Your Toothbrush

by Mike Foster | Feb 7, 2018 | Best Practices, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data Loss Prevention, IT Best Practices, Programs

It is like someone borrowing your toothbrush without you knowing, and you get sick from their germs. Think of programs on computers as being something that can be used to make you sick. As 2018 continues, more attackers will use trusted software as a vector to infect...

Patching Nightmare – Please Forward to Your IT Pros

by Mike Foster | Jan 23, 2018 | Adobe, Adobe Flash, Applying IT Patches, Best Practices, Cybersecurity, Patch Updates, Patches, Preventative IT Security Breach, Technology Safety Tips

Intel says, again, to stop deploying patches. Java and other new patches need handling. Intel advises that IT Professionals stop deploying the current versions of patches for the recently discovered security flaws in CPU chips. Find details, just updated, by...
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