by Anika Cook | Jul 10, 2022 | Cloud, Cybersecurity, Remote Working, Risk Management
Moving to the Cloud offers tremendous benefits for SMBs that range from lower IT costs to any-time access to data and certainly more reliability in terms of uptime. But, data in the Cloud is also vulnerable to security threats just like the data stored on physical...
by Anika Cook | Jul 3, 2022 | Cybersecurity, Medium Business, Risk Management, Small Business
Let’s start with a “fun fact”: In 1981, the first cybercriminal was convicted of hacking into the AT&T network and altering its internal clock so it charged off-hour rates at peak times. So, it turns out that cybercrime is not all that new. But it stays new in the...
by Anika Cook | Jun 29, 2022 | Cybersecurity, Medium Business, Risk Management, Small Business
One of the errors many smaller firms make–and some larger ones–is that they really don’t understand the broad-reaching effects of a cyber attack. If someone breaks into your home and steals a laptop, you may think “ well, insurance will pay for the laptop...
by Anika Cook | Jun 22, 2022 | Cybersecurity, Medium Business, Risk Management, Small Business
Since effective cybersecurity should be a proactive effort, not reactive, this means that SMBs tend to overlook the entire issue as something that can be pushed forward into the future. One way to get around this challenge is to have a service level agreement with an...
by Anika Cook | Jun 15, 2022 | Cybersecurity, Medium Business, Risk Management, Small Business
A recent study pointed out that SMBs are increasingly becoming targets of cybercriminals because their cybersecurity measures aren’t as strong, sophisticated, or effective as those of large companies. Often, SMB owners tend to think they are too small to be targeted;...
by Anika Cook | Jun 8, 2022 | Cybersecurity, Medium Business, Risk Management, Small Business
So what is this SD-WAN that you have been hearing about? SD-WAN, the acronym for Software Defined Wide Area Network is a new take on the traditional Wide Area Network (WAN). A standard WAN’s goal was to connect users at a branch to a main campus or central office. A...
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