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…

Backing up all your business data so it can be restored when needed seems like a simple thing. Yet many small businesses find backup strategies complicated and fail to properly protect their data as a result. To ensure business continuity and that your company doesn’t suffer days of downtime due to a ransomware attack, it’s…

What’s the biggest single threat to company cybersecurity? According to the Sophos 2021 Threat Report, it’s poor cybersecurity practices by organizations.  The report, which looked at multiple cyberattacks that happened in 2020, stated, “A lack of attention to one or more aspects of basic security hygiene has been found to be the root cause of…

Phishing emails remain one of those persistent cybersecurity problems that never go away and continue to get worse. Phishing is responsible for a large majority of malware infections and data breaches, and it only gets more sophisticated, with scammers using automation and personalization. This attack method continues to run rampant, with a surge of 281%…

When your computer has become infected with a virus, ransomware, or another form of malware, it’s common to panic. Malware has become so sophisticated now that it’s not only hard to spot, but also can be difficult to completely remove. Malware can also do more than one thing. Some are single-minded, like ransomware. It will…