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How to Protect Your Sensitive Info from Hackers
Posted by Norma Stratton on
Which Type of Hackers is Endangering Your Business Data? How to Protect Your Sensitive Info from Them Your data is pivotal to running a successful company. If you don’t have proper security measures in place, hackers can easily steal your data and take you out of business. Cybercriminals might be the biggest threat facing your company. Besides gaining access to your money and accounts, they can also take over critical software, preventing you from collaborating with clients. Any organization can fall victim to hacking. However, small and medium businesses are particularly at risk. Why? Too often, their owners don’t always...
Microsoft 365 Defender Can Shield Your Company From Phishing Scams
Posted by Norma Stratton on
Phishing can lose you a lot of money and expose sensitive information. Microsoft 365 Defender can dramatically mitigate this risk with several features. Phishing attacks are a severe threat to your business. These fraudulent actions can cause your team members to accidentally share financial, customer, and account information with cybercriminals. How does this happen? The issue is that the attackers seem credible since they’re impersonating trusted sources and high-level executives. As a result, your team members may not even have second thoughts about distributing sensitive personnel or corporate data. Despite the attempts to raise user awareness of this fraud, phishing...
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6 Ways to Secure Your Company’s Data
Posted by Norma Stratton on
Few people today, if any, have not at least heard about ransomware attacks, which involve locking and encrypting a victim’s files and demanding a ransom be paid to regain access to them. This, obviously, can have a devastating effect on a business, both in terms of their finances and potentially their public image. Ransomware has become its own highly successful industry, to the tune of $4 billion each year, according to the FBI. Some of these cybercriminals have reportedly gone so far as to engage what amounts to their own customer service departments, with 1-800 numbers that victims can...
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What is a Data Breach and How Do You Protect Yourself
Posted by Norma Stratton on
You have no doubt heard about data breaches happening over the past few years, but you may be unsure of what a data breach entails. In essence, a security breach is when private information is accessed by someone without permission to do so. With companies collecting and storing personal information about their customers, this can prove harmful to all parties involved; companies lose face and the trust of their customers, while individuals have their personal information exposed. Companies suffering a data breach have far more to worry about than just a loss of customer confidence—the average cost incurred by companies...