To ensure optimal network security for your organization, it’s essential to make sure you address areas easy to overlook. One frequently neglected area is your local admin passwords. It’s important to understand how these passwords work and the steps you should take to prevent them from posing a security risk.
The beginning of the conference call is a particularly vulnerable period. It can take a few moments for all the callers to phone in, and it can be awkward to try to make conversation while you wait. Get your conference call off to a strong start with these small talk
Their are a myriad of apps that allow us to control the thermostat, turn on the lights and even to see what the dog is up to at home. But, for businesses, are these conveniences putting them at risk for a data breach? The answer is yes! The Internet of things
If you run a small or medium-sized business, you may feel like an internal IT professional can meet all your organization’s needs for managed IT services. While an internal employee can assist with many needed tasks, there are benefits of outsourcing your network security management. Signs It May Be Time
As a business owner, you want to make sure you and your employees stay as productive as possible during working hours. When something goes wrong, it can cost you in a big way. Calculating the Cost of Business Downtime When you calculate the cost of downtime, you need to look
No business owner wants to deal with a cyber attack, but do you know how much damage it can really do? The average small business that experiences a network security breach spends close to $8,700 to repair the damage. And, if you don’t protect your customers’ data, you’ll lose their trust and likely
What’s the biggest threat to your company’s computer & network security? It might surprise you to learn that almost 90 percent of cyber-attacks are caused by human error – an employee mistakenly clicking on a phishing email or leaving their laptop out in the open is far more likely than a
Giving employees the option to work from home is the wave of the future. More and more companies are putting work-from-home protocol in place to help not only keep employees happy with a flexible work schedule, but also to help benefit the company as a whole in the long run.
On June 10, 2019, Network Security Associate’s, Jeff Wagner, spoke at the Henderson Chamber Members breakfast, his presentation on network security focused on Password Protection. Below is a short summary on how to create a strong password. The longer the better A mix of letters (upper and lower case) Numbers
Though comprehensive process documentation is beneficial for many tasks, it’s essential when implementing technology to enhance your network security. Your process documentation must report the required steps to successfully complete a task or project, and it should also state who is completing the necessary tasks to fulfill a process. Proper process
Technology updates are never fun for any business, but they’re increasingly important to ensure your business’s systems are safe and secure. Unfortunately, upgrading everything all at once just to get it over with isn’t a safe approach. The investment of time and resources necessary for any major upgrade, combined with
So-called social hacks, also known as social engineering, involves attacks on what is perhaps the most vulnerable, easily compromised component in any computer system: The user. A social hack is any of a number of techniques, strategies, and tactics used to convince people to give up personal information, passwords, and