It once was said “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” Sadly, it appears some malicious hackers are taking that advice to heart when it comes to Hurricane Harvey. Earlier this week, our director of IT and data security John Sanders…
If it can cripple an airport, a large marketing group, an international shipping company and a large energy company, it can also bring your business and its network to its knees…
Valentine’s Day is upon us … and so is the threat of nefarious, malicious, ill-intended, criminal and just generally up-to-no-good cyber activity. With all the sending and receiving of e-cards, e-mails offering deals on chocolate, roses…
This time of year trucks, trains and planes are busily playing Santa, traversing the country and skies delivering packages to redistribution centers and eventually doorsteps, doing their best to insure people get their Christmas presents…
Last week’s DDoS attack reiterates why it’s important to secure your networks and connected devices. On Friday, a large portion of the Internet went down as hackers launched a large distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on a major…
Probably everyday coming across your LinkedIn and other social media newsfeeds are multiple articles touting the many benefits of working remotely — less stress, lower costs, more engagement, a happier workforce and so on.
Due to this…
There’s a new virus in town and already it’s affected nearly a half-million PCs, according to a recent Spiceworks article. Dubbed “Locky,” it’s a new strain of ransomware, similar to Cryptolocker that plagued the world a couple of years…
You probably have heard stories from your grandparents or your older neighbors of how it used to be, when people could leave their homes open and unlocked and trust them to remain unmolested. Those days are long gone now, and people are
An IT help desk is the support function that helps employees resolve technology problems — password resets, software and email issues, connectivity, and hardware failures — through channels like phone, email, chat, and a ticketing portal. End-user support is the broader practice of keeping people productive by resolving their day-to-day
Print security is the practice of protecting printers, multifunction devices, and the documents they handle from unauthorized access, data theft, and network attacks. Modern printers are networked computers with hard drives and their own operating systems — which makes them a genuine attack surface that needs the same protection as
Backup and disaster recovery (BDR) is the combination of two protections: backup, which copies your business data so it can be restored, and disaster recovery, which is the tested plan for getting systems and operations running again after a disruption. Backup protects the data itself. Disaster recovery protects your ability
Most business networks run invisibly until the moment they don’t. Files open, email flows, applications respond, and nobody thinks about the routers, switches, and firewalls quietly moving all that traffic — right up until a switch fails, an internet circuit drops, or a misconfigured firewall blocks half the office from
The business phone system rarely gets attention until it fails — and then it gets all of it at once. A dropped call with a major client, a phone tree that routes customers into voicemail purgatory, a new office that can’t get lines installed for weeks: communication problems interrupt revenue
Cyber threats have moved from “if” to “when” for businesses of every size. Attackers scanning networks for weak spots don’t discriminate by industry, revenue, or headcount — they’re looking for vulnerabilities, and any business connected to the internet ends up on someone’s target list eventually. The businesses that recover cleanly
Physical mail hasn’t gone away. Invoices, statements, notices, contracts, appeals, marketing pieces, court filings, patient communications, and regulatory correspondence still move by mail in enormous volumes across every industry. The volume shows up on the operations side as labor, on the postage bill as expense, and on the budget as
Every few months a new headline lands about a firewall breach, and the natural reaction is to ask, “Are we exposed?” The latest one—an exposure researchers are calling FortiBleed—is worth your attention, but not for the reason most coverage suggests. The real story isn’t a single vendor’s stumble. It’s that the legacy VPN
Documents are the connective tissue of every business. Invoices, contracts, HR records, patient charts, client files, board materials, regulatory filings — every department generates them, every process depends on them, and every audit examines them. When the systems managing all that volume break down, the friction touches everything: approvals stall,
