What is the most powerful resource in your company? Would you rather live without your copier or your computers? How about a key employee vs no computers? Phones vs. Computers?
No matter your answers, there is no doubt that computers are the powerhouse engines of most firms.
Would you give just anyone free reign over all your money, credit cards, bank accounts and retirement funds? No! Of course not!
Yet, SO many firms let anyone manage their IT. Which would be worse, having your checking account emptied by an incompetent bookkeeper or permanently losing all your firm’s data and being completely unable to work? Either way, a bad IT person can literally bankrupt a firm.
So at this point, it really is safe to assume the bad guys have YOUR password. Probably several of them.
Don’t believe me? Go to haveibeenpwned.com and check your own account. And that only checks a tiny fraction of the databases that have been hacked.
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.
Sometimes the best thing you can do is pull away from the day to day craziness and look at the big picture. See the forest thru the trees. The beginning of a new year is an ideal time to do a strategic health check.
So let’s see if we can help you with some IT strategy.
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.
If you made a New Year’s resolution it may interest you to know that there’s probably an app for that.
Are you already well into the download frenzy to keep track of your new goals? You need to know that you should be making safety a priority.
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.
There is something I do that makes me feel like James Bond, 007 himself when it comes to security and secret codes. That’s Two Factor Authentication or 2FA. OK, yes, I’m a nerd but still, it’s pretty cool and it REALLY improves your security!
Two Factor (sometimes called Multifactor) means logging into a system with 2 or more things.
