The digital age has brought unparalleled opportunities for businesses, but it has also introduced challenges in safeguarding customer data. Recognizing this, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) introduced the Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information, commonly referred to as the Safeguards Rule, back in 2003. Now, for over two decades, the FTC Safeguards Rule has provided a […]
Category Archives: Cybersecurity
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Oct
Oct
Physicians have a lot on their plates. Managing busy schedules, staying up to date with medical advancements, and providing the best possible care to their patients. Amidst all these responsibilities, it can be easy to overlook the importance of cybersecurity and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance. However, protecting patients’ personal health information […]
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Sep
Sep
This week we got a call from a business owner that has had a persistent reoccurring IT issue. It’s annoying and stops their work. They’ve had 3 different IT providers try to solve it over the last year plus without success. I hopped on a call with them and my engineer. Within about 20 minutes […]
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Sep
Sep
Passwords are a pain. No one enjoys trying to remember login credentials for upwards of 100 unique sites and services. More to the point, no one can remember 100+ unique sets of credentials, which leads to all sorts of other awful security problems (don’t worry, we’ll discuss them in a minute). Thankfully, new technologies are on the […]
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Sep
Sep
Cybersecurity can seem overwhelming at times. Your IT Provider handles this so why do you have to know so much about it? Our goal is to limit the impact any one cybersecurity layer has on our clients. However, in some situations it does require buy-in from our client base. Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is a perfect […]
Cybersecurity
Three Essential Cybersecurity Solutions for Small Businesses: Important Considerations
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Jul
Jul
Most organizations make cybersecurity overly complicated because “you should do it either way.” This is not a valid argument. Business owners have tons of “have to” being thrown at them every day. It’s extremely difficult to cut through the fluff and identify what is critical and what is just nice to have. We take the […]
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Jun
Jun
Remembering passwords is difficult. Breaking passwords (with the right tech tools) is easier than we’d like to think. And reusing passwords is incredibly risky. Passwords Solved Password managers generally work like this: you input all your username and password combinations to the password manager (usually over time as you naturally use them), and the service […]
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May
May
Cybersecurity is serious business; an ever-present threat that executives are right to worry about. But understanding cybersecurity — and the steps your business should take to be more secure — is complex and technical (and let’s be honest, not very interesting for most people). Unfortunately, many of the resources out there that deal with cybersecurity […]
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Apr
Apr
There are a ton of cyber security frameworks out there. Depending on your line of business you may have become acquainted with NIST, HIPAA, PCI DDS, ISO/IEC, SOC, or others. There are a lot of commonalities amongst these frameworks with complexity being foremost. We want to break some of that complexity down. Starts with Questions […]
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Mar
Mar
Users of the 3CX voip phone system should be on high alert. A new 3CX security vulnerability has been discovered which can deliver malicious payloads. This attack is worse than most because it is a supply chain attack. That means that the bad actors have managed to get their malicious code incorporated into the legitimate […]