Employees are your lifeblood and your greatest threat
(Post 4 of the Small Business Threats blog series) Employees, every company has them. Even a sole proprietorship has at least a single employee, even if that person is also …
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3 basic types of security controls to protect your business
Security is a subject that, depending on who you’re talking to, might mean different things. Even in the same context, in this case business, security can have several different definitions …
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Small business can learn a thing or two from big corporate data breaches
(Post 4 of the Small Business Threats blog series) Data breaches in government and corporate industry seem to be happening more frequently. Just in the past few years major players …
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Adapting security principles for small organizations
(Post 3 of the Small Business Threats blog series) The vast majority of effort put into standardizing security best practices is focused on large organizations with what is commonly referred …
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How does protecting your property relate to cybersecurity?
(Post 2 of the Small Business Threats blog series) When thinking of cybersecurity, it is understandably easy to assume that protective measures are largely technology-focused. After all, many cybersecurity start-ups …
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The greatest cyber-threat last year, this year, and next year too
What if I told you that the greatest threat related to technology isn’t a flaw in software, poor security planning, or a person’s susceptibility to manipulation? What if I said …
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How Firewalls Work
A Firewall is a device or software that regulates network traffic. Many people depend on them to be the single mechanism responsible for protecting a computer or network from all …
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11 Simple steps to a more secure home network
Working in cybersecurity is, in many ways, just like working in any other IT field. People assume that you know everything there is to know about technology and they want …
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How easily your online information is compromised
Today, people around the world share more information on the Internet than they likely realize. Between all individually shared social media posts, most people might be surprised to learn just …
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Is security necessary if you have nothing to hide?
Consider for a moment the very notion of information security. In general, is it really necessary in every aspect of our lives? Do we really need encrypted messaging on our …
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