Navigating Cybersecurity Challenges: Leadership Insights for SMBs
SMBs face distinctive cybersecurity challenges, often rooted in resource limitations and knowledge gaps. The gravity of these challenges becomes evident when we examine recent cyberattacks targeting SMBs. From ransomware to data breaches, these attacks can disrupt operations, lead to substantial financial losses, and damage reputation. To counteract these threats, proactive leadership is imperative. You have to be prepared to examine every aspect of your cybersecurity protocols and fill any gaps that might lead to a breach or data loss.
Zero Trust Security: Do we need it?
Zero Trust goes beyond user credentials and MFA. It uses a combination of those, plus continuous verification, location checks, device permissions, and connection monitoring, to lock down your systems and truly bump up your cybersecurity. But the question remains: do you need it? Let’s talk about the benefits of Zero Trust for your SMB.
Does Password Security Still Matter Now That We All Use MFA?
Passwords are one of the most frequently used factors in MFA, and you’d be hard-pressed to find a commonly used system or software that doesn’t require you to enter a password after your user ID. Because password use has become so universal, we often don’t give them more than a fleeting thought. But passwords still have a critical role to play in MFA. Although MFA vastly improves security, no system is infallible. Ensuring password protection is the first line of defense between a secure system and one vulnerable to cyber-attacks.
MFA is a MUST for SMBs!
Multifactor authentication, or MFA, has become ubiquitous in today’s digital world. You interact with MFA daily, from needing to input your debit card and PIN when using an ATM or point-of-sale system or adding your email address and completing a CAPTCHA when ordering an item online. MFA helps prove to the world that you’re really you.
Is Cybersecurity Really a Concern for my Small Business?
If you’re thinking that small businesses don’t need cyber protection and security, you’re wrong. When it comes to running your business, you wouldn’t tack private information up on a bulletin board and leave the doors unlocked when you’re done for the day—you take steps to protect your and your clients’ assets. That’s just common sense, right? The same should be true for all the data you store on your computers, servers, and in the cloud.
10 Major Cyber Security Risks for Cloud Users
There is a common misconception among cloud users that the Cloud equals a lower cybersecurity risk. There are massive benefits from cloud services, but eliminating cybersecurity risks isn’t always one of them.
How Much Can a Cyberattack Cost Your Company?
A cyberattack can result in a range of costs on your business that can have an impact long into the future – both visible and less visible costs.
Ransomware Insurance to Ensure You Get Paid (do this before & after an attack)
Discover the great benefits of outsourcing and keeping your IT services in-house and learn what type of services are better suited for which.
Maximizing Security for an SMB
Maximizing Security for an SMB Organizations can put a lot of money into cybersecurity protection. The truth is, even after having the best protection systems in place, sometimes virus intrusion may occur. An effective cybersecurity solution should provide tools for basic protection and detection and include an immediate response plan. Without a detection mechanism, users […]
Ransomware Attack: What Should My Business do?
Ransomware Attack: What Should My Business do? Ransomware continues to be the most prominent malware threat, with over 4,000 attacks happening daily in the US alone, since 2016. This translates into 1.46 million attacks annually! Having said that, businesses continue to suffer from ransomware attacks because of a lack of awareness about the best cybersecurity […]
Should SMBs be Concerned about Ransomware?
Should SMBs be Concerned about Ransomware? What do Colonial Pipeline, JBS, and most recently, Kaseya VSA all have in common? They all fell victim to elaborate ransomware attacks; however, this does not mean attackers only go after big fish. While many of the attacks that make the news are on multi-million dollar companies, it does […]
