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Macro Systems has been serving the Metro Washington, DC area since 1997, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

Is Your Business Prepared to Invest What is Needed into Cybersecurity?

Is Your Business Prepared to Invest What is Needed into Cybersecurity?

Safeguarding your business' infrastructure from various threats is a well-known imperative. In discussions about network security, the term "endpoint" frequently arises. Exploring the significance of securing all endpoints is the focus of today's article.

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Online Holiday Cybersecurity Shopping Tips

Online Holiday Cybersecurity Shopping Tips

The holidays are a time of love and giving, but they are also a time when hackers run amok. If you don’t want to get a stolen identity in your stocking this year, we recommend you practice the following safe shopping security measures listed below.

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Your Business Can't Take Cyberthreats Lightly

Your Business Can't Take Cyberthreats Lightly

Constant challenges arise for businesses, ranging from supply chain disruptions and employee turnover to the unpredictable forces of natural disasters. Among these challenges, cyberattacks stand out as an inconspicuous yet highly menacing threat. Listed below are the various ways cyberattacks endanger your business and how to prepare for them effectively.

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What Your Business Needs to Know about Browser Hijacking Attacks

What Your Business Needs to Know about Browser Hijacking Attacks

With technology being a vital part of our lives and society, cyberthreats continue to evolve and pose significant risks. One such threat that is on the rise is browser hijacking attacks. Listed below are the dangers of these attacks, including the techniques employed by hackers, and how small and medium-sized businesses can protect themselves.

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The Pros and Cons of a Password Manager

The Pros and Cons of a Password Manager

Passwords play a pivotal role in safeguarding an organization's cybersecurity, acting as a vital tool for employees that surpasses the risks of relying on their own memory. Below we delve into the pros and cons of employing password managers to fortify the protection of company-owned digital assets.

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How to Create a Cybersecurity Plan for Your Business

How to Create a Cybersecurity Plan for Your Business

With so many threats in business, it doesn’t take much to fall victim to a cyberattack or a scam. Comprehending the dangers out there is the first step in enacting a cybersecurity process that can keep your users and your business safe. Listed below is a look at how to build one in this month’s newsletter. 

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Three Ways to Enhance Your Organization's Cybersecurity

Three Ways to Enhance Your Organization's Cybersecurity

Cyberattacks are a serious problem that all organizations face in some form or another, but there are small, everyday tasks you can do to ensure that they impact your business as minimally as possible. It takes intention and effort to protect your business and its infrastructure, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be hard. Listed below are three simple ways you can keep your infrastructure secure.

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You Could Know More About Cybersecurity

You Could Know More About Cybersecurity

Today's threat landscape is vast and unpredictable; even if you think you know enough about cybersecurity to protect your business, we bet that you don’t. It’s not even just in the business world, either, as individuals also struggle against cyberthreats, along with IT administrators. The next couple of weeks will be dedicated to cybersecurity to get across everything you need to know about it.

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The Most Common, Different Types of Training

The Most Common, Different Types of Training

When many companies look to hire new staff, they usually have a series of qualifications they need each applicant to meet before they grant interviews. They make their selection, do their entrance training, and then expect that the new hire will settle in and be as productive as possible as soon as possible.

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The Most Common Cybersecurity Threats

The Most Common Cybersecurity Threats

As a business professional, it’s your responsibility to protect your organization's digital assets from cybercrime, but the path forward is not always so easy or clear-cut. Without a thorough knowledge and expertise of IT security at your disposal, it can be challenging to protect your infrastructure as adequately as it needs to be. Listed below are some of the common problems that involve cybersecurity, as well as how you can address them.

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Network and Data Security Tips

Network and Data Security Tips

Modern Businesses have to deal with more potential problems than in any time in history. These problems include cost increases at every turn, personnel shortages, and a regulatory landscape that is always evolving. One of the biggest issues that can have a negative effect on a business is not having the processes and resources in place and working to secure its data and network. Listed below is a look at five suggestions that can work to help your business keep its network and data more secure. 

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4 Cybersecurity Training Tips for Your Staff

4 Cybersecurity Training Tips for Your Staff

Security is an incredibly critical part of running a business, but it’s extremely easy for busy employees to fall short of the security expectations you might place on them. This is why it is so imperative to train your employees on the many facets of cybersecurity. By training them, you are preparing them to tackle the variety of challenges they will encounter throughout the workday.

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A United Threat Management Tool Can Help Your Business

A United Threat Management Tool Can Help Your Business

How many security solutions does your business have implemented at any given time? Traditionally, businesses have implemented what we call “point solutions,” which are software tools designed to address a specific part of your security infrastructure. While this approach is better than not having security at all, it presents several issues that must also be addressed in order to most effectively protect your business.

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Your Organization's Email Security is Critical

Your Organization's Email Security is Critical

Your organization’s email is one of its most imperative pieces of technology, and since that is true for nearly every business, it is unfortunately one of the most utilized attack vectors used by cybercriminals. Most companies don’t comprehend just how vulnerable they are if their email isn’t properly secured and do their best to keep their employees trained on how to spot potential scams. 

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Best Practices to Keep Your Wireless Networks Secure

Best Practices to Keep Your Wireless Networks Secure

Wireless security has become a cornerstone of working while on the go thanks to the availability of so many wireless networks to connect to. Listed below is a list of best practices to help ensure your wireless networks, and the devices connecting to them, are as secure as possible.

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Tips to Secure Your Network

Tips to Secure Your Network

There are many, many different versions of cybercrime that businesses need to be vigilant about. That being said, most of them can mostly be avoided through a few basic practices and behaviors. Listed below are a few tips to help you prevent attacks from successfully influencing your business, so make sure you share them with your entire team, as well.

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Blame Culture Can Be Dangerous to Cybersecurity

Blame Culture Can Be Dangerous to Cybersecurity

When you go to such great lengths to protect your business’ network, it can come as a shock when you experience a data breach. Someone has to be at blame for such an event, right? Alas, this mindset is often one that can come as a detriment to businesses, especially in the modern age of cybersecurity threats and ransomware. It can divide teams and cause rifts that are hard to recover from. 

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Three Important Organizational Cybersecurity Issues Going into 2022

Three Important Organizational Cybersecurity Issues Going into 2022

If there is one shared priority most businesses need to have it’s a strategy on how they are going to go about securing their network, infrastructure, and data from the numerous threats they face. Listed below is a look at three of the most imperative issues surrounding organizational cybersecurity as we head into the new year.

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Practices to Protect Yourself and Network While Using Smart Devices

Practices to Protect Yourself and Network While Using Smart Devices

Smart devices and Internet-of-Things devices in general have taken the world by storm, and a home without at least a handful of smart devices is quite rare to find these days. On the other hand, smart devices (devices that connect to the Internet to perform various functions) must be approached with a certain level of caution.

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MosaicLoader: a New Malware that Steals Credentials

MosaicLoader: a New Malware that Steals Credentials

Many threats instantly make themselves known on your device the second they install themselves, like ransomware and other kinds of malware. Others, like the newly discovered threat called MosaicLoader, discreetly install themselves in the background of your device and cause issues behind the scenes. 

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