Do Your Part for Cybersecurity Awareness Month This Year
Cybersecurity Awareness Month The National Cybersecurity Alliance launched the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) in 2004 to ensure every American stays safe online. The initial goals for this month-long focus on cybersecurity are to provide reminders and information, like updating passwords and antivirus software regularly. Today the technology and world […]
Cyber Security Threats Posed by International Cyber Criminals
International Cyber Criminal Threats to be Aware of A host of emergent and dynamic cybersecurity threats, mostly initiated by international cybercriminals, have the ICT and digitization fields on high alert. Progressive, high-tech, and multifaceted cyber-attacks involve phishing, malware, Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and more. These cybersecurity threats pose a […]
What are the 5 Domains of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework?
5 Domains of the NIST Security Framework Besides resulting in considerable financial losses, cybersecurity threats can also adversely affect reputation or cause service outages that can damage an organization’s market position. For security savvy businesses, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and its five-point plan helps these organizations understand, manage, structure, and […]
Cyber Security for Schools: How to Protect Your E Classrooms
Cyber Security for Schools Across the world, the COVID-19 health pandemic has thrust students, teachers, and schools into the online learning environment. Due to the prevailing conditions, institutions have hastily set up new learning platforms. Most of these transitions to e-learning would typically have taken several months to implement. So, […]
Information Security Threats to be Aware of in 2021
3 Information Security Threats to Be Aware of in 2021 By 2021, the business environment will become considerably digitized and connected. These developments will make competing in the digital marketplace increasingly challenging. Over time, information security analysts will face progressively sophisticated threats. Whereas some will be new, others will be […]
Network Security for Businesses Facing The “New Normal” During and After COVID-19
Network security during the “New Norm.” Since the COVID-19 pandemic started dominating the headlines in March, social distancing and shelter-in-place orders have become the new normal as state governments try to “flatten the curve” and protect citizens’ health and safety. While many essential businesses (such as hospitals, grocery stores, pharmacies, […]
Network Security Threats to Your Remote Workforce
What are some network security threats your remote employees may encounter? In today’s fast-paced times, more and more companies have opened their doors and stepped outside the confines of their offices, literally and figuratively. The rise in the remote workforce is no secret and its benefits are clear. Studies have […]
How to Prevent Ransomware After Your Business Reopens
How to prevent ransomware during a business reopening. As states continue easing their COVID-19 stay-at-home orders and allow more people to return to physical workplaces, business owners are focusing on how to protect their workers’ health. This means a focus on enhanced cleaning schedules, sanitizing stations, staggered schedules, and desk […]
Implementation of the Illinois Financial Institution Cyber Security Act
Learn more about the Illinios Financial Institution Cyber Security Act. The financial service industry is the leading target of cyberattacks. According to Forbes, financial institutions experience 35% of all data breaches. These institutions depend heavily on information technology systems to process millions of transactions. What’s more, they’re privy to a […]
Pandemic and Business Continuity Planning – Where the Rubber Meets the Road
Learn more about business continuity planning in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The past few weeks have presented all of us with a great deal of operational challenges that ultimately brought us back to our current Business Continuity Planning for guidance. As we reviewed those plans, we all quickly […]