Preparing clients to be resilient in the face of ongoing security threats
Most companies understand that at some point they are going to be the victim of a hack or data breach. Just days ago, we saw that even Amazon isn’t immune, when Amazon admitted it had lost names and emails in...
FTC resources to help protect SMBs
You (or your customers) might not be aware, but the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) wants to help make small businesses more secure. It offers a number of products, resources, and tools to help small businesses better protect themselves.
For goodness’ sake, get a web filter
This week, news emerged about a government agency being infected with malware because one of its employees apparently liked to watch porn on his work computer. This is a classic case of an organization not putting safeguards in place that...
Yahoo’s $50M damages bill demonstrates the high cost of poor security
Years ago there was a commercial for oil filters in which the spokesperson warned that you could pay him a few dollars for a filter or pay a mechanic later for an expensive repair. “Pay me now, or pay him...
Stop blaming your employees for your lousy security
Seems like every week we hear a story blaming employees for being lax about security. They have bad passwords or they fall for phishing scams. They do all kinds of things that compromise your company’s security position, but here’s the...
Google launches new authentication service for drop-in identity management
When it comes to identity management, you want to make it as simple as possible. Most small businesses don’t have the development resources to build a solution with solid identity capabilities built-in from scratch. If you can’t afford to build...
Managing identity between machines remains a challenge
As we move into a time of machines conducting business on our behalf, we need to start thinking about the implications of that in terms of security and identity. If your machine is talking to my machine, we suddenly have...
Securing content in motion has become much easier
For many years, content management vendors have been trying to protect content as it moved through the world by attaching a set of rules. The earliest attempt, before the cloud came along, was called Information Rights Management (IRM). It was a...
Single sign-on can simplify life for your employees
As you company collects cloud services, it can be a pain tracking logins. A good way to get around that problem is providing your users with a single sign-on. This is a delightful concept that gives your users a single...
Two-factor authentication can solve the worst password problems
Small to medium-sized businesses often struggle with identity management because they lack the resources of big companies to implement enterprise solutions, but something as simple as two-factor authentication can help keep your company secure. Two-factor authentication simply means that after...
