Cyber Security

Your system may currently allow each employee to install any software they may need or want on their computer. Even with the best of intentions for these installations, if left unchecked, your system may be negatively impacted. If you are not in control of what is coming and going on your network, you are opening yourself up for hackers to take advantage of the situation. You may want to implement a policy to prevent employees from downloading software without admin consent. This simple procedure of requiring an admin to give

Do you have office computers that run slow? When was the last time you checked on the computer that runs your reception or check-in areas? If your computers are loaded up with software that is not specific to run the operations of that position, then, you may need to listen up. Line of Business applications or LOB for short, are what you need to strive to maintain across your organization. LOB applications are computers that only have software installed that are mandatory for that computer to process operations meant for

Most any site that you go to these days requires you to have an account set up, which also requires you to have yet another password to remember. Good password management practices for your business will give you an added layer of protection against hackers looking for profiles they can hack. Today, I want to give you two things you can implement right now to be able to have better password management. Complex Passwords First, a word of advice I can give you is to have complex passwords. They need

Leadership plays a major role in IT and Cybersecurity for your organization. Without the buy-in from leadership, employees will be untrained and unprepared for a plan of action when breaches happen in your organization. The best way to tackle issues head-on is to work with your IT service provider to create an employee training plan to equip your employees with a plan of action that they need to follow should a breach occur. Time is of the essence when these breaches happen. Additionally, it is important to have a process

Say, you have a job where you will be out and about and away from a secure internal network and want to know how you can protect your system better. One option that you can consider is a product called Firewalla. This is an affordable way to add extra protection to your network when you are on the go. This company produces a number of different products to meet your specific needs, but the concept of the product is that it gives you a way to connect to Wi-Fi through

Every morning, you come into the office, turn on your computer and begin catching up on emails from overnight. You see a QuickBooks invoice email that you were expecting (or so you think) and click on it and BOOM, you are taken to a site you never intended to visit with just the click of your mouse. To protect your organization from such instances, you need good spam ware protection. There are many options out there to choose from for protection, but one feature you need to be looking for