Category: Cybersecurity

October 9, 2020

October is officially National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM). Started in 2004 by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Cyber Security Alliance, NCSAM exists to educate people on the importance of cybersecurity and provide guidance on how to stay protected. With cyberattacks increasing 400% during COVID-19, cybersecurity awareness is more important than ever. The NCSAM […]

September 8, 2020

The “as a service” model has become increasingly common over the past decade, especially with software. Rather than paying a large upfront sum for ownership of a program, software as a service (SaaS) provides continued access in exchange for smaller recurring payments. Not only is SaaS more affordable, it’s easier to scale and update.   These same benefits extend […]

July 29, 2020

It’s been five months since quarantine measures went into effect. During this time, countless companies  changed their workflows and infrastructures as twice as many people were suddenly working from home.   This shift to remote operations created a number of opportunities for hackers and malware programs to exploit vulnerabilities. After all, 90% of data breaches are caused by human error. With employees logging […]

June 15, 2020

Modern servers and systems face countless threats. Not only are they under constant attack from hackers, malware, and spam bots, they’re also exposed to physical dangers. Twenty percent of businesses experience system loss from fires, floods, outages, and more every year.  For these reasons and more, businesses need to create an executable strategy that goes into effect when […]

June 5, 2020

There are many digital threats facing modern businesses. While it’s usually large companies that make the headlines, small businesses are targeted just as much by spam bots and hackers, if not more. One particular type of cyberthreat that has grown in both commonality and scale over the past decade is DDoS.  DDoS stands for distributed denial of service. A large-scale version of […]

May 29, 2020

Protecting your servers from unwarranted physical access is an important part of cybersecurity. Even with the proper firewalls, authentication measures, and redundancies in place, all of these defenses don’t mean much if a person can plug straight into your system. Placing your servers in a secure data center is a great way to keep them […]

April 30, 2020

It’s incredible that we live in a time when so many people are able perform their jobs from the comfort of their own homes. If COVID-19 and the current quarantine measures had happened even just 15 years ago, businesses would be facing much greater challenges in providing access to files, software, and more.  Today, much […]

April 16, 2020

In the initial weeks of COVID-19 quarantine and working from home, most businesses were focused on simply maintaining operations. That meant ensuring employees had the necessary tools, that systems and files were accessible, that important information was still protected, etc.  Much of this is an ongoing process that continually needs to be monitored, reviewed, and adjusted, but […]

March 30, 2020

Now that the initial wave of chaos created by shifting employees to a work-from-home strategy is over, we want to remind you to continue keeping your systems and data secure. Keeping your systems safe can be especially challenging when employees work from home. Remember that cyber criminals are doing all they can to exploit the current situation, […]