Just listing out all the areas and noting if you are secure or need to fix it is incredibly valuable! We offer a mini cybersecurity report card that helps identify the easy fixes that dramatically improve your companies cybersecurity!
Data is valuable. Your personal information, credit card, address, phone number, passwords, pictures, files . It's all super valuable to hackers and is traded openly on the dark web. Make sure you take your cybersecurity seriously.
Antivirus is basically worthless at stopping most breaches and damage. Fortunately there are lots and lots of free or inexpensive ways to dramatically tighten your security. One of the big new replacements for Antivirus software is a class of software called EDR - Endpoint Detection and Recovery.
It's not unusual for firms to not even realize they have been breached. Hackers get in and not only copy and steal information, they look for ways to go after the companies vendors and customers and trick them into paying for invoices very similar to the ones they find in your system.
Remote collaboration and virtual meetings have skyrocketed due to the increase in telecommuting. To facilitate face-to-face communication, companies often turn to popular video conferencing solutions like Google Meet and Microsoft Teams. However, these platforms are not created equal.
Be sure to check the management software that came with your server to alert you of failing parts, hard drives, temperature issues and other catastrophic issues. You can often prevent an extended company outage just by monitor the advanced alerting system built into most servers.
Do you trust your employees with sensitive business data? You might be shocked to learn how many business owners don’t. But why… ? We have the answers.
If a bad guy gets a users password, even a low level employee, the consequences are generally very expensive and the damages hard to recover from. They often go after the firms clients/customers, employees and vendors as well using email and other resources to appear as though it is you sending them payments or asking them for information.
Printing issues can be exceptionally exasperating. Just as you urgently have to print a hard copy of a document, some problem arises. This frustration is amplified when the issue is not the printer, but your computer. Even the typically dependable Windows 10 and 11 have been known to suffer printing problems.
