At its best, virus or malware attacks kill valuable hours of productivity and become a nuisance. When your network gets hit with a virus, for example, your employees could have no choice but to spend their time in an endless loop of pop-up ads. The ads put the brakes on your computer until it likely crashes. That’s at its best. At its worst, you lose precious data and experience outages
Protecting your company from costly data breaches and cyber security attacks is critical. Running a small business doesn’t make you invisible to cyber criminals; they’ll notice you. Often, they’ll target you for your sensitive data (e.g. customer credit card numbers, SSNs, employee files), and sometimes for other motives, such as to cause mischief by bringing down your website. A recent article from CIO cautions companies against taking a merely “good
Larger organizations seem to make all the headlines when they have a security breach, but even smaller organizations are targets for hackers as well. 2014 became the year in which small to medium-sized organizations were actually the biggest target of cyber attacks. Listed below is a cyber security checklist to help prevent your organization from succumbing to an attack and becoming another cyber crime statistic. 1. Identify Vulnerabilities The first
It is unfortunate the very industry that works so diligently to offer potentially life-saving services to the populace is often the target of hackers, ransomware, malware and viruses. But it is precisely because of their need to gather very personal information, that hospitals, medical centers and the like are often targets for data breaches and exploitation. For example, Stegoloader Malware. In this particular case, those in the healthcare industry must remain
Businesses are continuously under the threat of a cyber attack. The motives include financial gain and the destruction of customers’ trust. No business, regardless of its size, exists beyond notice of cyber criminals. What can your business do to increase cyber security in 2017? The following are three major steps: 1) Take all possible precautions with devices you introduce to your network We’re already experiencing the effect of the Internet
