You may have heard of phishing: the method cybercriminals use to scam their targets by impersonating someone that their targets would trust, requesting access credentials or other sensitive information. Did you know that there are specific types of phishing? Let's review spear phishing, one of the biggest risks to your business.
How valuable is the data that you’ve gathered during your time in business? What would it mean if it were to leak somewhere beyond your control? Let's talk about methods to control your data leakage.
Network security is a priority for modern businesses of all types; threats don’t usually discriminate between the computer networks that they try to access. One type of organization that should be especially diligent is today's college or university. There are many different kinds of sensitive data stored there, including the personal, medical, and financial trifecta, as well as intellectual property.
Approximately 16 million students call colleges or universities their home for at least a portion of the calendar year. They are educated by another 1.5 million or so faculty, staff, and other employees. Most of these institutions of higher education comprehend the challenges presented by maintaining networks, particularly the ones that students connect countless devices to. With all this in mind, can a college campus’ network truly be secure, or is it a fool’s errand?
It’s a familiar scene from many science fiction books, TV shows and movies: someone comes across a locked door. They unlock it, but instead of using a key, a red beam scans their eye to confirm their identity and allow them access. The thing is, this and similar biometric authentication technologies are likely to begin appearing in real-world businesses sooner than later. Let's examine Biometrics.
Messaging applications have constructed out a foothold in businesses, clearly proving their operational advantages. Nonetheless, it isn’t responsible to leverage a solution without ensuring that the solution is secure. There are a couple criteria that you should consider to find out how secure your chosen application really is.
Social media is a prominent instrument that your organization can utilize to communicate with clients and prospective customers, but in an age where you can expect your employees to have their own accounts, it can be catastrophic to overlook the security issues associated with it. Let's explore how you can protect your business from its employees’ social media use.
Cards are one of the most popular methods of making payments these days; it’s just more convenient than carrying a lot of cash on you at any given time. However, if your business accepts card payments, it puts you in a place of vulnerability. Considering how often payment cards are utilized for transactions, you need to take action now to keep your business from experiencing data breaches related to payment information.
Cybersecurity is a vital aspect of managing any business. This is especially true in our modern era when there are numerous organizations formed specifically to steal credentials and sensitive information from your business. Let's examine how your company can implement proper cybersecurity practices.
It's amazing how much trust most people have in Internet-based companies; people routinely give extremely sensitive information to these companies without thinking for a second about what these companies do with it. Let's take a look at data collection practices, what Internet companies want with that data, and how millions of people every year become victims because they entrust their PII (Personally Identifiable Information) to companies that promptly lose it.
Planning for data security isn’t the easiest thing in the world, especially if your business doesn’t have any dedicated security professionals on-hand. While securing your data with traditional methods, like passwords and firewalls is imperative, what measures are you taking to make sure a thief or hacker isn’t just walking into your office and pilfering your technology?
It seems that to have a computer these days is to have a Google account. If one isn’t utilized for professional purposes, it is utilized as a personalized solution; the convenience and accessibility of these accounts alone are compelling, even before one considers the versatility that this account brings with it. Alas, these benefits can be quickly overshadowed by risk if a Google account’s security is overlooked.
An email’s imperative
This much is clear fact -
However you need to stay safe
From an email cyberattack.
The gift card may be the perfect (if impersonal) gift; however, these convenient little plastic rectangles may not be so perfect after all. In 2018, they’ve been a vital component to a business email compromise scam that has been popular recently.
No organization can be successful if it’s constantly suffering from data breaches. Thus, you should take measures to reduce the problems caused by these threats before they present themselves. Listed below are four of the biggest problems your company could encounter in the field of network security.
While the phone remains a convenient communication tool, it has recently been the cause of a large amount of stress from businesses and users alike. While caller ID was also once a convenient tool to help stop spam calls, we now cannot trust the numbers it provides. Allowing personal calls go to voicemail to check them is one thing, but a business shouldn’t have to resort to that. What can they do?
It's easy underestimate the importance of monitoring your solutions. Nevertheless, the advantages of tenacious monitoring were recently thrust into the spotlight when 24 spammers were arrested in October by the Delhi Police’s cyber cell for impersonating Microsoft support staff and duping American citizens.
Some people may be surprised to learn that your mobile device holds a significant amount of personally identifiable information on it. This has triggered many users to secure their phones at all times, but others simply ignore the threat. Because Google makes it so easy, there’s no excuse for Android users not to secure their devices. Listed below is how you can do it.
With a limited market share that is one-third the size of Google’s, you would think that Bing would be trying to keep controversy away from a user’s search results. Nonetheless, the Microsoft search engine has recently experienced a few notable PR disasters that may be enough to persuade some not to use it.
Every business owner must contemplate how to approach network security. This is especially true with the continuously-growing list of threats that face their organization’s network from simply being connected to the Internet. It may sound like an overstatement, but when considering what some huge corporations have dealt with very recently, it becomes evident that figuring out how to approach cybersecurity is one of the most vital considerations any business owner has to make.
