Cyber Security Training for Employees: What Does Common Sense Mean?
The new year is here, and a useful resolution for every small business is training employees on how to stay safe online. Many small businesses rely on their employees’ common sense when it comes to password creation, email threats, and avoiding unsavory websites, but what exactly is common sense in cyber security terms? Someone untrained […]
Encryption: The Small Business Owner’s Secret Weapon
With small business cyber crime on the rise, business owners need to do everything they can to protect themselves and their data. Here’s how encryption can help. Encryption is a way to secure your data, either while it is stored on a system or device, such as a hard drive or smartphone, or while […]
Public Wi-Fi Puts Your Business at Risk: 9 Tips for Mitigating the Threat
Every time you or an employee logs on to a public Wi-Fi network, the safety of your business is potentially compromised. These tips will help protect your data from rampant cyber security threats on public wireless networks. The explosion of free public Wi-Fi helps people stay personally and professionally connected. However, many of these networks […]
A Guide to Employee Cyber Security Training
When it comes to small business cyber security, you could be doing everything right, but it just takes one wrong click from a well-meaning employee to undo all your hard work. Here’s what to cover during business cyber security training for your team. One of the most overlooked steps to small business cyber security is […]
St. Louis Cyber Security: Viking Style
Happy Halloween! Axes and swords aren’t enough to keep your network safe these days. It takes a lot to fight for your network security, so Mark and Amy came prepared in their best Viking garb this Halloween to flaunt their St. Louis IT consulting muscles. Don’t worry! They have more than battle axes in their […]
The Single Biggest Threat to Small Business Security: Zero-Day Threats
If you don’t know something exists, it’s hard to protect against it. Therein lies the challenge of zero-day threats, the technical term for cyber threats that capitalize on previously unidentified software vulnerabilities. Developers in all industries are skilled at creating “patches” of code to correct vulnerabilities in their software once they’ve been identified, but cyber […]
Successful Business Owners Take Password Security Seriously
UPDATE: New guidelines from the NIST released August 2017 changed the way we all should look at passwords. Read our blog post regarding updated password recommendations by clicking here. Password security is a fundamental element of cyber security. Defending your business from cyber attacks is one of the most important safeguards needed to ensure your […]
Where is My Backup Located?
You may not believe this at first, but geography can be essential to the integrity of computer systems. If your company experiences a local disaster, where you house your backup data becomes imperative. The following computer backup solutions illustrate the three location-specific types, each with pros and cons. On-Premise Implementing an on-premise backup is a […]
Data Security: Just How Secure Will Your Business Be in 2016?
This question plagues all businesses large and small, and as we roll into a new year, it’s a good time to think through the most up-to-date data security solutions. Spyware, viruses, malware, ransomware–these are just a few terms that constantly make headlines as hackers continue to find new ways to steal client data. You may […]
