10 easy steps to building a culture of cyber awareness
Whawenst Duvet
Many people just aren't aware of the cybersecurity risks. They might accidentally click on a phishing link or set up a really simple password that hackers can easily guess. Did you know that 74% of data breaches happen because of human mistakes? That's a huge …
FTC safeguards rule compliance for CPA and Accounting Firms, are you ready?
The FTC (Financial Trade Commission) mandates new technologies and security controls for CPAs and Accounting firms. These measures aim to safeguard the security, confidentiality, and integrity of customer information held by financial institutions, including accounting firms, tax professionals, enrolled agents, and wealth management advisors. …
A ‘Compliance First’ Mindset Limits Liabilities for SMBs
Luis Aponte
By adopting a Compliance First strategy, when choosing solutions and vendors, you will identify those that do not comply with your requirements, eliminate them from your selection process, and then select from the rest. It also means evaluating your current solutions and vendors and replacing …
Why Attacks on Critical Infrastructure Are Dangerous
Critical Infrastructure (CI) comprises physical and cyber assets vital for the smooth functioning of societies and nations across the globe. The sectors that make up critical infrastructure differ from one country to another. For example, the USA considers 16 sectors to be vital as opposed …
5 ways to protect yourself from Ransomware
Ransomware is one of a kind of malicious activity that enters your system via a security flaw. Once it enters into the system, it encrypts the entire system or in parts. Once the system is encrypted, users cannot access it until a ransom (a message …
Steps to protect the company’s data
With changing the work environment, data security has got a lot of importance and there are a lot of threats to data security. Whether it's employee, customer payment info, information, or business strategies, almost every organization is looking for a way to find better security …
Top 5 Tips to Avoid a Security Breach
2021 has already proven to be a great year for hackers. There have been a number of cyber-attacks on major companies around the world such as Bonobos, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Hobby Lobby to name just a few. Companies are more vulnerable to the growing threat …
Top Risks Associated With Cloud Computing
Cloud computing provides several remote servers on the internet, rather than a local server or personal computer. For this purpose tools and applications such as servers, databases, networking, and software are used, which gives consumers greater flexibility in terms of cost-effectiveness. …
5 things you can do to protect your business from cybercrime.
Cybercrime has become quite easy these days. Hackers have grown in numbers because the knowledge of hacking is easily available on different sites on the internet. Organizations have secured their systems in many ways to make sure that their information and documents are safe from …
