What Is A Virtual Private Network – (VPN)?

Date: 08/05/2019 Author: Andrew Lopez Categories: Cybersecurity Tags: Virtual Private Network, VPNNo comments yet.

A virtual private network, VPN for abbreviation purposes, is an organization and managed IT service providers best friend. What exactly is a VPN? A VPN is a service that lets you access the web safely and privately by routing your connection through a server and hiding your online actions. In short, a PC connects to the VPN server. The connection between you and the VPN server becomes encrypted. Encrypted data is unreadable by humans and computers. The VPN connection becomes active and can now browse out to the internet without someone intercepting the users connection.

How Hackers Use Employees to Access Your Network

Date: 06/17/2019 Author: Andrew Lopez Categories: Cybersecurity, Security Threats Tags: hackersNo comments yet.

Computer hackers are located throughout the entire world. Most hackers work around the clock looking for vulnerable systems. What exactly is a hacker’s goal? A computer hacker’s motivation varies. A common motive is holding sensitive data hostage or exploiting customer data on the internet, such as credit card or social security numbers. How do hackers access said data? For starters hackers can use sneaky methods in email message attachments or bad code when downloading a software. Let’s discuss how hackers use business employees to gain access to the company network.

Email Spoofing – How To Recognize A Spoofed Email Message?

Date: 03/27/2019 Author: Andrew Lopez Categories: Cybersecurity, Email Security Tags: email spoofingNo comments yet.

The genesis of email was a revolutionary tool that businesses adopted over time. Once email became the norm, malicious individuals figured out ways of scamming users. By now, most email users have received strange emails from spoofed accounts. In today’s blog post we discuss how to recognize email spoofing and what steps to take to prevent being a victim.

How to Easily Manage Your Passwords

Date: 02/11/2019 Author: Derek Schwenk Categories: Cybersecurity, Helpful Tips, Managed Services Tags: password management, password securityNo comments yet.

According to Cyber Risk Analytics, over 4.2 billion credentials were stolen in 2016. Unfortunately, breaches happen on such a large scale because people don’t follow proper password protocol. Today, we’ll teach you how to manage your passwords easily and securely, including why you should use different passwords and why you may want to use a password manager.

Passwords are like keys; each one grants access to a different room (or account). Imagine that you use the same key to get into your house and your office. Or if that key is also used to get into your car. That doesn’t seem very secure, does it? Now imagine that someone makes a copy of that key, and now a stranger has access to your house, office, and car.

This scenario may seem scary, but this is the risk you run when you use the same password for multiple accounts. And, as we’ve seen from the Cyber Risk Analytics study, this same scenario plays out billions of times per year. You and your business can avoid being a victim if you vary your passwords and use password managers.

Should Employees Receive Cybersecurity Training?

Date: 01/04/2019 Author: Derek Schwenk Categories: Cybersecurity, Helpful Tips, IT Guide Tags: cyber security, small business, training tipsNo comments yet.

Cybersecurity training has quickly become extremely important for businesses. Employees don’t need to be cybersecurity experts, but they should be practicing healthy cyber habits.

New-hire training and regularly scheduled refresher training courses should be established in order to instill the data security culture of your organization. As always, preparedness is the key to preventing most security breaches. It is always best to know how to avoid becoming a victim.