Guess what is the biggest vulnerability in your entire, sophisticated, computer network? It’s not the firewall. It’s not the Wi-Fi. It’s not even missed patches, passwords or protocols. It’s the people in front of the keyboards! Yup… employees are the biggest threat!
Imagine your network is like Fort Knox.
Absolutely NOTHING should distract you from protecting your personal information.
We’ve just had Thanksgiving week and that means one thing for sure: people were distracted.
Priorities like traveling, buying the turkey, and tackling Black Friday may put protecting one’s personal data on a back burner.
Never before has security been as important as it is right now. We are seeing a huge uptake in actual breaches right here in our area. The bad guys are getting much better and the good guys are simply falling further behind. The financial damages, the loss of reputation, company operations being completely blocked and virtually every firm is under constant attack.
Trend Micro Worry Free Business suite (Antivirus and more) has come out with a major upgrade, moving their product from version 9 to version 10.
This version adds some new scanning techniques to improve handling of zero-day attacks, improved notifications to better identify issues as they occur, increased ability to protect you when browsing secured websites that have become the standard lately (and are difficult to scan) and countless other improvements.
America’s favorite hobbies, it seems, is tracing our family tree. Nothing could be easier. We only have to send off a saliva sample and then upload the results in the hope of finding long lost relatives. However, there is a big trade off if you do that, according to security experts.
It seems like every day there is a huge credit card breach at a major company and your credit card is at risk. What can you do to keep your credit card (and your money) safe? What should you do after a breach? This checklist is a flash briefing of some of the things you should know.
Cyber security is something you hear about a lot these days. Sometimes it’s thrown around to scare business owners, other times it has proven to be a cautionary tale, one that small businesses can learn from to fend themselves from online threats that can leave devastating impact.
Did you realize that your personal information might be less personal than you think when you are shopping, or even when you are simply using your phone?
Alan Crowetz, Internet Security Expert for WPTV was interviewed this week by the TV channel and says that we are probably unaware of 99% of the tracking that is being done.
Are you actually paying someone to cause your downfall?
Would you pay a criminal to break into your business? Would you hire a corrupt bookkeeper you know nothing about and then give them full access to your bank accounts and credit cards? Of course not! Yet we constantly see something far more damaging.
