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Every tax season, businesses trust their accountants and tax preparers with their most sensitive financial information. From employee Social Security numbers to company revenue reports, this data is highly valuable—and highly targeted by cybercriminals. But how secure is your CPA’s system? Are they following cybersecurity best practices to keep your business safe? Many business owners…
Outsourced cybersecurity: How your business can choose the right outsourced cybersecurity partner.
With cyberattacks, ransomware and phishing cases on the rise in 2021, it’s more important than ever to have effective security and risk management in place to protect your IT assets. When it comes to cybersecurity, companies tend to have these top three concerns: loss of data, revenue, and reputation. With so much at stake, finding the right outsourced cybersecurity…
Ransomware protection for businesses: How to protect your company mobile devices from ransomware attacks
2021 saw dramatic increases in ransomware compared to previous years. With year-end 2021 ransomware attacks predicted to cost close to $714 million, which grew to 134% over 2020’s numbers, there seems to be no end in sight. Todays cyberhackers are more sophisticated and strategic in executing surgical attacks on an organization’s infrastructure. While crypto-ransomware and ransomware lockers have…
How we helped a financial services organization standardize and stabilize their IT infrastructure and cloud environment to allow for secure and seamless remote work capabilities during COVID-19.
Hartford Community Loan Fund (HCLF) is a community development institution that specializes in nonprofit lending. They provide and promote just and affordable financial services that benefit low-wealth residents in the communities they serve. They do this by helping clients overcome barriers including credit history, language, cultural differences, financial literacy, or lack of economic assets. They…
Why Cybersecurity Awareness for Your Business Is Critical for ALL Employees
Is Cybersecurity a major priority for your business? Well, let’s discuss some facts on the latest trends in cyber-attacks and data breaches. IBM Security has published the Poneman Institute’s Cost of a Data Breach Report for the past 17 years. It is the benchmark report offering help in mitigating the rising costs of data breaches. …
How to protect your business against ransomware attacks?
While businesses are prioritizing growth and profitability, hackers are working on extorting your company’s money. Their favorite tool to do so is ransomware. According to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, “50 to 70% of ransomware attacks were aimed at small and medium-sized companies.” So basically, no business is completely safe from ransomware. What is ransomware? …
Should you outsource your company’s cybersecurity?
More than likely, yes. Before we get to the reasons why, let’s just review some recent data on cybersecurity attacks. According to SentinelOne, the leading software provider in threat detection, most small to medium sized businesses (SMB’s) are extremely vulnerable to impending cybersecurity attacks. 32% of SMBs have suffered a cybersecurity attack in the past…
Why cybersecurity is VITAL to protecting cloud services.
A recent 2021 Netskope Cloud and Threat Report raised some eye-opening pieces of research. In 2021, 53% of all web traffic has been cloud-related, which increased the dangers of cyberattacks. It also revealed a 13% malware spike from cloud apps. Ray Canzanese, Netskope Threat Research Director, provided an interesting perspective on this subject. He stated,…
Takeaways from the SolarWinds ransomware hacks
In December of 2020, headlines revealed that a major software company, SolarWinds (SW), was hacked in 2019. SW provides a variety of system management tools for network and infrastructure monitoring. The reason this made headlines for multiple reasons. First, SW waited months to reveal they were breached. The hackers got into SolarWinds’ network via malicious code…
How to identify the latest phishing tactics
A recent 2021 phishing study reported that the cost of phishing more than tripled since 2015. The average annual cost of phishing increased from $3.8 million in 2015 to $14.8 million in 2021. Source: Ponemon Institute’s The 2021 Cost of Phishing Study In addition to these rising organizational costs, it also stated that nearly 65,343 wasted…
How to help remote workers feel more secure while working from home
In the spring of 2020, employers across the nation started implementing work-from-home options. By July 2020, a Gartner survey revealed that more than 80% of business leaders planned to continue a remote work option. With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing businesses to keep employees on a remote basis, new cybersecurity challenges loomed large. Companies had to increase…
Cryptocurrency and IT Infrastructure For Businesses: How You Can Accept It and Profit From Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency isn’t going away anytime soon. With more providers of goods and services accepting Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies now than ever before, businesses just like yours, need to be thinking about what you need in order to accept it as a payment type. Not only are large companies jumping on, but entire countries such as El Salvador are adopting cryptocurrencies to allow citizens…
Ransomware Issues for Businesses: Why Even the White House Is Getting Involved In Ransomware Prevention
A ransomware attack can be devastating to your business. Ransomware attacks can shut down your business for inconvenient periods of time, permanently damage your reputation, and open the door to more unfortunate yet preventable data breaches. Ransomware has become such a big issue for private companies that even the White House is getting involved. Earlier…