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Managed Services, Security, Technology, Support

Cyberattacks Target Small Businesses

While it may be natural to assume that large businesses are prime targets for cybercriminals, that’s not the case. It’s actually small businesses they target most. Hackers know that small businesses assume they’re safe from cyberattacks and, therefore, put cybersecurity on the backburner. ...

Ransomware Attacks Are Increasing

The growing availability of ready-made malware is creating opportunities for even inexperienced criminals to launch their own operations. Attacks are picking up as companies are targeted with ransomware impacting their networks. Despite the advice of many cybersecurity experts to the contrary, ...

Security, Technology, Support

Small Business Security Lessons

The cyber threats facing small businesses are getting more severe. The pandemic has highlighted those threats, as work from home arrangements have provided fresh meat for hackers keen on exploiting weaknesses in faulty cybersecurity. No longer is it enough to simply protect on-site networks. In the ...

cloud computing, Managed Services, Security, Technology, cloud environment, business continuity

Business Continuity Using Cloud Computing

It’s easy to agree that technology has helped businesses to continue working during the coronavirus outbreak. Without a doubt, cloud computing has been key to keeping business-critical services going. The benefits are well documented: cloud infrastructure provides companies the flexibility to scale ...

Security, Support

Ways to Improve Your Customer Service

Will this global pandemic improve #customerservice? I am personally experiencing improvements in customer services as a direct result of coronavirus. The “shelter-in-residence” and social distancing have limited businesses offering regular services, but the limited services that businesses are ...

Cyber Security

Before the internet, threats to #smallbusinesses were different. Today, it’s the criminals you can’t see that you have to worry about. Thanks to cybercriminals, 60% of companies they steal from go out of business within six months. Coupled with the outlook that 15% of small businesses doubt their ability to survive a recession, a #cyberattack is a double threat waiting to ...

Best Practices for Cloud Migration Amid Covid-19

When Covid-19 was declared a pandemic, businesses quickly realized that secure cloud architecture was no longer just nice-to-have. Many organizations were caught off guard as employees began to work from home and students began to learn from home. As the situation continues to unfold, transitioning the right workloads to the cloud in the right way—and right away—is ...

Cyber Insurers Increase Scrutiny Amid Pandemic

Lately we’ve been having discussions with clients about how to mitigate the increased #networksecurity vulnerability that comes as more employees #workfromhome. Compared to mature processes and hardened systems for office locations, personal and home networks tend to be less secure and expose both companies and their employees to new risks and attacks. According to ...

Video Conferencing: Who’s really listening?

Hackers are selling two critical vulnerabilities for the video conferencing software #Zoom that would allow someone to hack users and spy on their calls. The two flaws are so-called “zero-days”, and are currently present in Zoom’s #Windows and macOS clients. Zero-days are unknown vulnerabilities in software or hardware that hackers can take advantage of to take control ...

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