How Hackable Are You?
Four Ways to Improve Your Cyber Awareness We live in a world where sharing too much data – or the wrong data – is like asking to be hacked. It’s bad online security practice, particularly as phishing is on the rise. But data sharing, whether it’s with social media companies or engaging in unsafe behaviors like using unsecure Wi-Fi networks, [...] Read more
The Future of Backup: From Periodic to Continuous
Maintain an always-on experience with continuous backup Backup has been an essential part of IT infrastructure since inception and it is unlikely that will ever change. But with the IT landscape changing and threats increasing, are we still able to rely on the backup technology we currently use? Backup requirements are changing and it's important to understand if today’s backup [...] Read more
What Is Business Email Compromise?
What is BEC? BEC refers to an email scam that targets specific people in an organization to either steal money, data or other confidential employee information. These email impersonations rely heavily on social engineering tactics. How does BEC work? Email is today’s top threat vector, accounting for 90% of advanced threats, and the ever-growing threats are becoming more and more costly [...] Read more
What is Malware and How Can it Hurt Your Business?
Businesses are moving online and with terabytes of data It's 2019. Businesses are storing huge amounts of data. This has made cyber attacks an imminent event. And one of the most threatening pathways of a cyber attack is malware. Malware is a malicious software that affects businesses on a daily basis, and attacks are on the rise. According to the [...] Read more
Benefits of Using A Cloud Solution Provider for Office 365
Why You Need A Cloud Solution Provider As organizations and businesses look for ways to increase productivity, they are driving the high demand for cloud services. But as that cloud usage grows, many businesses are also unsure of the Lego they need to piece together, so to speak, so they are turning to their technology partner to guide them through [...] Read more
Warning: Scams Pick Up As Holidays Approach
How to spot Black Friday scams This holiday shopping season, it’s your emails you should be checking twice. As the holiday shopping season heats up, consumers begin buying gifts and donating to charities, and so scammers get busy too. Year after year, as the technology makes it more convenient for us, it also makes it easier for scammers to be [...] Read more
Stop Identity Hacks With Multi-Factor Authentication
Don't get hacked Phishing and stolen credentials are still among the primary threat methods in breaches, and as hackers grow more sophisticated, employees and consumers have to get smarter about the credentials they use to access digital applications. On the flip side, companies also have to focus on effectively securing access to the applications people use every day. We're all [...] Read more
What is phishing? How it works and how to stop it
Preventing phishing attacks What is phishing? Phishing emails are a method of trying to gather personal information, typically using disguised email as a weapon. The goal is to trick the email recipient into believing that the message is something they want or need — a request from their bank, for instance, or a note from someone in their company — [...] Read more
Prepare for Windows Server 2008 end of support
The end of the road for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 is rapidly approaching It's been more than 11 years since Microsoft released Windows Server 2008 and became a staple in data centers. Many organizations still use the 2008 or 2008 R2 OS. After all, if it's not broke, why fix it? But Microsoft will end the support lifecycle [...] Read more <nav class="navigation pagination" role="navigation" aria-label="Posts">
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