From natural disasters and cyber-attacks to accidental deletion, there are many reasons a business needs to back up its data. However, Avast’s latest findings on disaster recovery highlight an alarming issue for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs): 60% of data backups are not fully successful, and half of the attempts to recover data from these […]
4 Things to Do Now to Prevent Your CyberInsurance Claim from Being Denied
After a data breach in 2022, the leaders at Illinois-based manufacturing company ICS probably thought, “Thank goodness we have a cyber insurance policy.” But after claims investigators pulled out their microscopes, they found that ICS failed to use multifactor authentication (MFA) across all digital assets, which they had agreed to do in their policy. Travelers […]
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How To Enable Remote Work Without Exposing Your Entire Business To Cybercriminals
A record number of businesses have embraced remote work. It has been a huge shift that came with many challenges. One challenge is cyber security. How can you enable remote work while keeping your business and your employees secure?
The #1 Mistake Your Employees Are Making Today that Lets Cybercriminals into Your Network
There is one area of IT security where every business is vulnerable. You can have the greatest malware protection in the world and still fall victim due to this one big mistake.
What To Do About the Huge Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities [Updated]
(Note: This post has been updated to reflect progress made by Intel.) It’s been a tumultuous start to the year due to Meltdown and Spectre, two enormous IT security vulnerabilities. The dust is settling, and we are starting to get a clear picture of how to move forward. In early January, several independent groups of security […]
The Equifax Data Breach: What Your Company Can Learn
The Equifax data breach is the latest and one of the largest in a series of alarming, high-profile incidents exposing sensitive information. For companies that have responsibility for securely managing similar types of data, it should serve as a wake-up call to review your own policies and processes. Here’s what you can learn from Equifax’s […]