geralt / Pixabay With the Internet, our lives are more integrated than ever before: we communicate with friends online; we read and learn online; we pay our bills and shop online. But the convenience of Internet services comes with a price—nothing we do is completely private. By now it’s hardly a secret to anyone that […]
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VISHNU_KV / Pixabay The specter of insider threats hangs over every employee in an organization. An employee can inadvertently be a threat after opening a suspicious email, may intentionally cause a breach for profit, or may be impacted after a breach occurs. Enlisting all employees in your insider threat mission is a critical need. Communication
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Employees & Small Business Security Let’s face it: without the proper employee security awareness and training put in place, your employees won’t be able to recognize and address the risks that are actively targeting your business. Between good password habits, data breaches and business email phishing scams, you have a lot to consider when it
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weinstock / Pixabay Aligning security with your organization’s greater business needs is becoming increasingly important, but how do you actually do it? What it comes down to is being able to map security to business objectives. Done right, security can be a major business driver. Today, everyone from finance to DevOps to sales and engineering
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CeruleanSon / Pixabay It’s been anticipated that the global eCommerce market will be worth a staggering $2.4 trillion by 2019. That’s excellent news for anyone who sells products or services online. The problem? That also means that the opportunities for payment platform fraud are going to increase as well. In fact, security is a top
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HypnoArt / Pixabay In enterprises around the globe, it’s becoming increasingly clear that implementing mandatory password changes is no longer considered best practice for securing key systems and data. Of course, we’ve long known that passwords are a weak link in the security chain. Eighty percent of hacking-related breaches in 2017 leveraged either stolen passwords
Not long ago, I blogged here about a new type of cybercrime called ransomware. But when it comes to cyber crooks, apparently they’re also using some old-fashioned methods to breach businesses’ systems. The 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report from Cisco shows cybercrime is growing. Here’s what could be at risk for your business. How are cyber crooks
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