This is the ultimate secret to keeping your business data safe

Hackers are targeting all businesses, all the time. Using clever automated tools, and by sending out billions of emails every day.

NBC News has reported that one of the region’s biggest hospital chains which includes Wellington Regional Center, has been the subject of one of the largest medical cyberattacks in US History.

There has been no response to requests for comment but a statement was posted on Universal Health Services’ website on Monday saying that its entire network is offline, due to an IT security issue.

With the rise of eCommerce and online banking, cybercrime has evolved. Like criminals who pull smash-and-grab jobs, they go where the money is. However, unlike bank robbers, cybercriminals do their best to avoid detection by letting malware do the work for them.

If you aren’t improving security, you REALLY should be.

Attacks on small and medium business have skyrocketed in 2018. The damage caused in each attack has become worse. It is extremely expensive to be hacked. Not just in massive lost productivity and cost to remediate but now there are legislative fees and requirements imposed for most breaches.

We regularly see the bad people getting into peoples “stuff”. While there are tons of ways they can attempt to get in, we definitely see a handful of popular and common attacks that stand out.

They tend to go through seasons where a few types of attacks get very popular because they work and the bad guys get in.

Guess what is the biggest vulnerability in your entire, sophisticated, computer network? It’s not the firewall. It’s not the Wi-Fi. It’s not even missed patches, passwords or protocols. It’s the people in front of the keyboards! Yup… employees are the biggest threat!

Imagine your network is like Fort Knox.

Absolutely NOTHING should distract you from protecting your personal information.

We’ve just had Thanksgiving week and that means one thing for sure: people were distracted.

Priorities like traveling, buying the turkey, and tackling Black Friday may put protecting one’s personal data on a back burner.

Never before has security been as important as it is right now. We are seeing a huge uptake in actual breaches right here in our area. The bad guys are getting much better and the good guys are simply falling further behind. The financial damages, the loss of reputation, company operations being completely blocked and virtually every firm is under constant attack.

Trend Micro Worry Free Business suite (Antivirus and more) has come out with a major upgrade, moving their product from version 9 to version 10.

This version adds some new scanning techniques to improve handling of zero-day attacks, improved notifications to better identify issues as they occur, increased ability to protect you when browsing secured websites that have become the standard lately (and are difficult to scan) and countless other improvements.