Tag: data breaches
How you can prevent employees from sharing sensitive company information
Did you know that 70 percent of employees are sharing company information? Company information is valuable, critical, and most importantly, confidential. The future growth and success of your company could very well be destroyed should this data get leaked. So what’s the...
Have businesses learned their lesson from the Target breach?
This month marks five years since Target announced the data breach that exposed 70 million customers’ credit card numbers and banking information.
Gone phishing
When you have ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, and polymorphic malware to battle, it’s easy to put phishing education on the back burner. In fact, a new study shows that 95 percent of IT professionals underestimate its impact and fail to adjust...
Tech Time Warp: Big-time data breaches and the cybersecurity sins that led to them
Cybersecurity often seems like a moving target. The bad guys have a seemingly endless supply of spammy servers, plus all the time and budget in the world, whereas those charged with protecting companies from cybercrime face normal business constraints in...
Ask an MSP Expert: How can I use recent breaches to teach my SMBs?
Q: There have been a lot of cybersecurity attacks in the news lately, especially the Equifax breach. How can I use these scenarios as teachable moments for my SMB customers without scaring them? In the past few years, cyber crime...