Just about everyone is now familiar with the term “phishing.” These are messages that employ social engineering tactics to trick people into doing things, such as clicking on malicious links, downloading dangerous attachments, or sending passwords or other personal details. Phishing is unfortunately very common. Last year, 83% of organizations experienced phishing attacks coming through…

Something that can immediately make your stomach tie into knots is when you realize your smartphone or laptop has gone missing. Unfortunately, the same thing that makes mobile devices so popular, the fact that you can take them anywhere, also makes them more likely to be lost or stolen. About 70 million smartphones are lost…

If you asked your employees to identify the main areas of an email to check for phishing, how would they score? Do they know the tenants of good password security? Employee security awareness training is a vital piece of your IT security strategy. Just as important as your firewall or anti-malware software. Employees are on…

Data loss from poor disaster recovery planning is all too common. Companies think that if they have installed a backup app on their PCs then they’re good to go should they suffer a hard drive crash or ransomware attack. But recovering quickly from a data loss incident takes more than just backing up data. You…

Companies in Silicon Valley and the rest of the world are beginning to settle into the new normal – the hybrid working environment. You’ve undoubtedly heard the term “hybrid” being used to describe the new world of work quite often over the last several months. The pandemic significantly accelerated the move to a work-from-home environment…

Business cloud adoption is nearing 100% due to the acceleration of a remote workforce during the pandemic. Many of the systems and data that companies need to operate are now stored in the cloud, locked behind usernames and passwords. This offers a more flexible working environment and one that allows companies to be resilient and…