A business impact analysis is one of the smartest preventative maintenance tasks a company can invest in today, particularly with cyber security risks increasing in number and severity. One area that is carefully examined in the analysis is disaster recovery. While preventing disasters with proactive measures, such as automated traffic monitoring, is a part of every good plan, knowing what to do in the event of a disaster is equally as proactive and can protect your business. Digitalization … [Read more...]
How to Apply Solid Cyber Security Practices to Your Cloud Migration
If your company has yet to engage in a cloud migration process, you will likely have one soon. Motivated by cost savings, the ability to support remote work with a consistent experience, and the flexibility and scalability of cloud solutions, many companies are looking for more ways to utilize cloud technology. There are many elements to a successful cloud migration, including staying on budget and within the right timeline. But one of the most pressing is balancing cyber security concerns as … [Read more...]
Protect Your Data With These Cyber Security Best Practices
Human error is one of the most common sources of cyber security events. Whether it’s poor password hygiene or uninformed users making risky moves, cyber criminals often gain access through avoidable errors made by employees. A lack of environmental awareness is often the window through which bad actors gain access to systems. For example, environmentally unaware security teams have not established the fabric through which visibility is possible, such as monitoring tools that throw up red … [Read more...]
5 Questions You Should Ask Your Managed Services Provider
You’ve identified an area of your business where you can gain measurable benefits by migrating to a cloud solution. Whether it’s unified communications, disaster recovery, or security, a managed services provider can help you reduce costs, improve scalability, and utilize the latest features in a subscription-based model. Managed IT services also reduce the burden on your in-house team, but there are five critical questions you should ask a managed services provider before signing with … [Read more...]
Don’t Be the Victim of a Data Breach
“Breach” has more than one meaning when it applies to cyber security. For example, you could have a data breach or a privacy breach. You can also have a physical breach, an electronic breach, or a skimming breach. Breaches can come from malware, phishing, denial-of-service, password attacks and through ransomware. One of the most common headaches organizations have to deal with are data breaches. How can you protect your data? How a Breach Affects Your Business Breaches can result in the … [Read more...]
Why Companies Aren’t Employing Zero Trust Strategies for Endpoint Security
As companies continue to move more of their employees across widely dispersed areas, shift processes to the cloud, and see the elimination of the network perimeter, endpoint security becomes more important. But according to a survey conducted by Tanium, too many companies are letting their cyber security strategies slide. Among those responding, 55% said that approximately 75% of potential endpoint attacks wouldn’t be hindered by their current tools or policies. Why Endpoints Aren’t Being … [Read more...]
4 Smart Strategies to Protect Against Phishing
Your cyber security strategy probably includes some information about phishing. Maybe you even mention it at your orientation and provide a guide for what to do in the case that an employee spots a phishing email. But there’s so much more you could be doing to prevent this type of attack on your data and systems. Here are four innovative ideas for improving identification and response to phishing emails: Start With Training Phishing is one of the most common ways in which every level of … [Read more...]
Insider Threats Are a Major Problem in All Industries: Protect Yourself With the Right Solutions
There are plenty of things to worry about and plan for when you consider all the outside threats in cyberspace. Interestingly, for most companies, the weakest link is the insider threat – the employee who has either not been properly trained or let good practices slide, inadvertently opening the door to cyber criminals. Negligence and a lack of training often work hand in hand to create a situation that can take down a company – or at the very least, cause a major inconvenience. In some … [Read more...]
5 Steps to Get Started with Zero Trust Security
Zero trust security is an approach that assumes the untrustworthiness of every user and device until proven otherwise. This is in stark contrast to past security postures which assumed devices and users were valid and trustworthy unless proven otherwise. In the days when a network perimeter could be firmly established, this approach made sense. In an era where the perimeter has eroded to be nearly non-existent, companies require a network security approach that can be applied to every level … [Read more...]
Work-From-Anywhere Security Solutions for 2022
Allowing employees to put their work hours in from the location of their choice was a topic of discussion prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, but when work from anywhere became a mandatory situation in 2020, it was clear that cyber security strategies needed to be addressed in a new way. Identifying the right security solutions is among the most important things companies can prioritize to protect themselves from threats specific to remote work situations. After the initial scramble to equip … [Read more...]