Every day, there are more and more businesses springing up that do not have the capital and/or backing that major conglomerates have. This leads to some financial difficulties in the early months and years of any small business. Due to these constraints, choices have to be made early on and they are not about what [...]
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A Comprehensive Network Security Audit is a Practical Step in a Dangerous Time
April 3rd, 2012 
admin Hacktivist groups have been making numerous headlines for successfully breaching the network security of businesses and organizations around the globe. Hacktivism involves a community of hackers that target businesses, organizations, and government agencies for ideological reasons. Recently in the news, a third-party company was exploited and millions of Visa and Mastercard holders’ accounts were jeopardized. [...]
Network Security: Managing Risk
March 6th, 2012 admin Companies rely on network security to protect day to day business operations as well as to safeguard sensitive information. Tremendous amounts of this sensitive information are stored and transmitted electronically. This personal and financial data needs to be protected with vigilance. Recent news highlights the vulnerability of businesses to cyber threats and the importance of [...]
Security’s a Concern to Small Businesses in 2012
December 28th, 2011 admin The major theme among these blog posts is the absolute importance of data security, particularly within your own business. Business owners need to be aware of how crucial that protecting your company and client data is to the overall success of your business. Consider a loss of customer / client data in a hacker attack [...]
Nation’s Power Grid Cyber Data Security
December 8th, 2011 admin When the fourth Die Hard movie – Live Free or Die Hard – came out some years ago, the thought of an attack on the U.S. power grid had never really occurred to me. The villain in the film decided to shut down the national power grid as a “fire sale,” a three-phase exploitation of [...]
Pay Attention to Your Clients’ Information
November 9th, 2011 admin Almost every time you walk into your doctor’s office or a hospital for treatment, you have to fill out some kind of form. I have no proven information on this fact, but I think it’s pretty safe to assume that most of us don’t read what is given to us. However, one thing that you [...]
Technical Support Important to Data Backup Services
October 14th, 2011 admin Data backup is becoming even more of an important element to you and your business’s privacy, protection and overall ability to serve consumers. For years, people have used disk options like portable hard drives, Zip drives and burned CDs to store personal information like pictures, financial records, etc. Slowly, we have been moving into new [...]
Will Stopping Botnets Come at the Cost of Our Privacy?
September 29th, 2011 admin Whether or not you are a business that runs security audits 4 times a year or just a normal person, the issue of privacy regarding your computer is always a major concern. Our computers house a huge stockpile of personal information and data that can be potentially damaging. We have discussed the importance of protecting [...]
Inside Ethical Hacking
September 14th, 2011 admin The world of hacking seems very mysterious and foreboding; especially if you take stock in the way these clever programmers are portrayed in movies. There must be some truth in these depictions because the world of cyber criminals succeeds in its secrecy. If we knew who was behind a brute force attack or government files, [...]
Recent Cyber Crime Highlights Security Importance
September 7th, 2011 admin Whether you are a $100,000 a year or $100 million a year company, you know how important privacy and security are to your operation? This includes threats from physical robberies as well as cyber crimes, which are becoming a bigger danger for businesses day by day. As I mentioned in a previous post, the FBI [...]
