Many small business owners think they’re too unimportant for cybercriminals to bother but they’re targeted in more than half of ransomware attacks.
The revolution in business that happened over the last two years has altered work habits, making working from home more common.
RPO (recovery point objective) and RTO (recovery time objective) are two crucial calculations you need to understand when it comes to disaster recovery and business continuity. Below, we’ll give a definition of both and explore why they’re important to small and medium-sized businesses. RPO – Recovery Point Objective Let’s begin with RPO. At its core,…
A ransomware attack can be devastating to your business. This sneaky form of malware works by encrypting the data in your corporate files, rendering them inaccessible until a ransom is paid. If you don’t pay the ransom, you’ll lose your files forever. Depending on the nature of the data, there’s also the risk that the attackers…
Believe it or not, most of today’s data breaches aren’t the result of complex undertakings by nefarious cyber-criminals. Instead, they result from simple mistakes – on the company’s part – that could have been avoided. In fact, IBM estimates that human error causes about 95% of security breaches today. This isn’t to say that hackers don’t have…
With a new year comes new opportunities, new challenges, and new goals. Many of us make new year’s resolutions from a personal perspective. Maybe we plan to go to the gym more, eat healthier or even use our cars less. While these are all great ideas, we firmly believe that new year’s resolutions can apply…
Most people are pretty busy these days. It can seem that every productivity boost just means that employees are expected to do more in less time. This often leads to people being too busy to “deal with” any little computer issues that might crop up short of not being able to use their device at…
Trying to come up with fresh cybersecurity awareness content for your employees can be challenging. It’s not something that is usually high on the priority list for companies, yet it’s important to continue to drive home the message of a cyber secure workplace. Security of IT systems has become of major importance to businesses of…
One of the biggest stories in cybersecurity over the last year has been the rise of ransomware. Unfortunately, these types of attacks have become more and more dangerous as of lately, due to the increased volume of attacks being made, increase in ransom demands, and how much we are relying on our data. In 2020,…
The massive gas shortages caused by the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline have gone away, but the rise in gas prices is still being felt around the country. When Colonial Pipeline was hit with ransomware on May 7th, the pipeline that supplies 45% of the East Coast’s gas, diesel, and other petroleum-based products was shut down…
