7 security best practices: Preventing ransomware attacks — with people Posted on June 22, 2017 by Tim Burke If you have taken note of enterprise network security over the years, you’re aware of security best practices basics, which are also applicable to ransomware: layer your security defenses, back up your data, keep your software patched… Continue reading →
Learning from WannaCry Posted on June 6, 2017 by Tim Burke If your business has been taken hostage by WannaCry ransomware, get expert help now. If you’ve been spared, please pay attention anyway – because WannaCry broke new and dangerous ground. Continue reading →
Staying secure in a dangerous age: How to face down ransomware Posted on September 22, 2016 by Tim Burke In my last post, I focused on several key types of cyber threat most likely to challenge your business right now. This time, I’m drilling down — to ransomware and what you can do to protect your enterprise from it. Why ransomware prevention? Because security experts regard ransomware as today’s most serious cyber threat, having increased 35% in just a year to an average of nearly 1,000 per day in 2015. Continue reading →
IT Security in 2014: Challenges and More Challenges Posted on May 8, 2014 by Tim Burke Information technology has become a business essential. We’ve reached the point where our ability to thrive and succeed depends on key software apps and the technology (wherever it may be) that runs them, our access-from-anywhere to the Internet, and our ability to gather and analyze troves of digitized data. The easiest targets So important are these capabilities that we often put them into use before we’ve figured out the myriad of ways they’re vulnerable to those with malicious intent. And while smaller enterprises used to be able to escape the worst of these vulnerabilities simply by slipping beneath cybercriminals’ radar, those days are gone. Continue reading →
