Some organizations have bought into the idea that workloads in the cloud are inherently more secure than those on premises. This idea is reinforced by the concept that the cloud service provider assumes responsibility for security. However, while a secure cloud workload is possible, one should not automatically assume this as there are important steps to ensure […]
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First things first, we are NOT asking you to change all your passwords on a regular basis and just for the sake of doing so. Studies and experience show that this alone does not necessarily lead to better security – perhaps quite the opposite. Here’s what you can do instead. Get a password manager. Password managers are a great and
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Security awareness training is a form of education that seeks to equip employees of an organization with the information they need to protect themselves and their organization’s assets from loss or harm. Security awareness training should include employees, temps, contractors, and anybody else who performs authorized functions online for an organization. Small and Medium Enterprises
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This article from CyberCecurity is too important not to share. The Domain Name Service (DNS) is the part of the Internet that maps web site names that you use to IP addresses that the Internet uses. DNS servers see a lot of those names and numbers. Billions of them a day, in fact. Akamai, in
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An overall cyber security strategy is incomplete without a dedicated approach to training employees and reinforcing the importance of following cyber security guidelines. Cyber security awareness training ensures that everyone within an organization understands the role they are expected to play when it comes to protecting sensitive data, defending against malicious attacks, and mitigating the
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Cyberattacks have only increased both in severity and number since the beginning of 2021. Well-organized, orchestrated hacker groups continue to keep large organizations on their heels as newer, more sophisticated methods of employing cybersecurity measures are rolled out every quarter. Even the federal government is having to continuously update its cybersecurity protocols. The recent SolarWinds
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Most established businesses have some sort of security software installed on computers, servers, and on other hardware. But protecting a single laptop is a very different task from defending the vital digital infrastructure a business relies on for its mission-critical operations. That’s where enterprise IT security comes in. Why Is Enterprise IT Security So Important?
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In the 2018 calendar year, there were more than 570 security breaches that compromised the identities of over 415 million employees and consumers around the world. Nearly half of these breaches were experienced by businesses, and while most of the news headlines we read tell us about large companies experiencing these breaches, the majority of
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As a business owner, can you afford to potentially lose your data and the use of your computers to ransomware? Could you stand to pay potentially millions of dollars in fines for a data breach? Whether you’re a small company of only a few employees or a larger company, everyone is at risk. In one
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So far in 2021, Ransomware attacks have resulted in catastrophic damages for individuals and businesses alike. Not all of these damages are monetary, either—disruption to key business functions can have long-lasting effects that can take weeks or months to completely resolve. The problem is very real. As of the publishing of this article, it’s likely
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