One of the best ways to boost your cybersecurity is to focus on the exact strategies hackers use to steal data. To help you get a leg up on those pesky criminal attackers, we’ve got you covered with a list of hacker-proof tips. Here are five ways you can fight back against cybercriminals: Choose passcodes over passwords. Passwords are all well and good until your data is compromised. To protect your information, try to use a combination of letters, numbers, … [Read more...]
Here’s What You Should Know About the Microsoft Exchange Server Hack
We’re only three months into 2021, and it’s already been an eventful year. The Microsoft Exchange Server hack—our focus in this article—is one of many reasons for this. What Happened to the Microsoft Exchange Server? If you don’t yet know about this major cybersecurity problem, here’s some context: A Chinese digital espionage unit called Hafnium hacked the data of over 30,000 organizations across the U.S., including the private information of local governments and quite a few … [Read more...]
How to Protect Your Business Against Cyberattacks (with or without a budget)
Cyberattacks have become more common and frequent in today's times. Therefore, it has become necessary for businesses to have stringent cybersecurity policies to thwart such malicious attacks and protect their confidential data from falling into the wrong hands. When it comes to cyberattacks, businesses, especially SMEs, usually have the "It will not happen to me" mentality. However, it is not so because every business, big or small, is at equal risk from cybersecurity breaches. Malicious … [Read more...]
What is Dual Authentication and Do I Need It For My Business?
Those days are long gone when just having a strong password was sufficient for an organization's or individual's security needs. Today, malicious actors can crack a password in seconds using sophisticated algorithms. Dual authentication can ensure better security for your business by providing a second layer of defense. Ever since the advent of the internet, passwords have been the gateway to every system and account online. Passwords and PINs are ubiquitous and are used to securely access … [Read more...]
How You Can Improve Your Business’s Cybersecurity Posture
Every business organization must have an effective and robust cybersecurity strategy to prevent malicious actors (or hackers) from trying to barge into your organization's network periphery. Your best move is to integrate cybersecurity into your business culture – 'build security in.' Having a proactive approach towards cybersecurity is the need of the hour. Cybersecurity threats have become one of the worst nuisances in these technologically advanced times. Businesses worldwide employ … [Read more...]
