Tag Archives: IT Security
Nov
Phishing Scams to Look Out For The Holiday season brings a lot of things with it. The hustle and bustle, the holiday lights. However, scammers are hard at work year-round and they even put in some overtime around the holidays. That’s right, we typically see an uptick in phishing and spam emails this time of […]
Aug
The Increasing Cost of a Data Breach The cost of a data breach has spiked over 6% in the last year according to a recent report by the Ponemon Institute. The cost of a breach rose from $141 per record compromised to $148 per record in 2018. This makes the average cost of a breach […]
Feb
Scary Stories in IT Security This week I had a speaking event where I talked about the basics of IT security in front of about 70 business owners and executives. I shared a bunch of real life stories I’ve heard over my 10 years working in the managed services industry. I realized as I started […]
Jul
How to protect from Ransomware Right on the heels of President Trumps executive order to improve the state of Cyber Security in the US the entire world is being hammered by one of the largest ransomware attacks in history. The new ransomware Wannacry has run rampant across the globe infecting more than 200,000 computers in […]