85% of the time I audit a prospective client, I find that they either (1) have no backups or (2) have backups, but when we test them, they fail! If your business doesn’t invest time into backing up your network regularly, you may find any type of disaster—natural or human—will cripple it.
AND even more worrisome: Your Business Likely Has No Plan of Recovery
Your business likely relies heavily on one person that has a great depth of institutional knowledge and have no idea of how they can help. Many businesses continue to run with no recovery plan—plans to get the right materials to rebuild. Here, I’m not talking about bricks and mortar. There’s a lot more to disaster recovery and prevention than rebuilding a store front. When confronted with disaster, if you only have one or a handful of people “in-the-know” and no plan for your entire team, you risk a hard up-hill recovery, if recovery is even possible.
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After almost 20 years of tackling network security—amounting to billions of dollars in investments, it seems like organizations large and small continue to struggle with cybersecurity.
What’s Worrisome: The cybersecurity problem is getting WORSE, not better. Why haven’t we been able to nip cyber threats in the bud?
The answer is much more than a technical one. While technical issues persist to be a big part of why cybercriminals are able to penetrate your business networks (simply no one knows how to write bug-free code), resolutions to technical issues alone will not fix cybersecurity threats for three reasons:
Cybersecurity is not simply a technical problem— while most tech guys would have you believe that cybersecurity is simply based in tech, a good chunk of cybersecurity is intertwined in many aspects of society. Hackers and cybercriminals often play off of human emotion and our natural instincts to distract and deceive our users. This problem can often be seen as a multi-faceted problem that spans disciplines of the likes of economics, psychology, government and computer science (likely many others). While addressing the technical aspects of cyberattacks can effectively eliminate threats from known vulnerabilities on your network, it does not take into account all aspects of social and human awareness that are important to understand the stemming reasons for a need of cybersecurity in the first place.
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Microsoft released a security update in March to confront the latest WannaCry attack, but many businesses haven’t gotten around to patch their systems. Are You One Of Them? It doesn’t matter how large your business is—small businesses have been a growing target for hackers.
The unprecedented world-wide reaching WannaCry attack shocked security experts around the world late last week when the WannaCry malware started attacking computers and crawling networks, leading to over 200,000 systems infected—infecting large and small businesses alike (and the numbers are growing as the malware is yet uncontrolled!).
While recent malware attacks—varieties of CryptoLocker and CryptoWall wreaked similar havoc in recent years, WannaCry is by far the most severe attack of 2017 and the spread of infection is far from over. In this post, I want to clue you in on what we’ve been monitoring for the past few days and give you some concrete actions to protect your business from infection (from WannaCry and other attacks).
But First, What is WannaCry?
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The best way to learn good password hygiene is to think like a hacker.
Generally, a hacker can guess your passwords as fast as his computer will process them—as computers get faster, so does the time it takes to crack your systems! When a hacker attempts to break into your network, he or she will likely run through a very systematic process aimed at cracking simple passwords (though phishing employees has become all too common a tool as well!). The scary thing that most businesses don’t realize is that more often than not, their weak passwords are the easiest way into their network (alongside making sure their systems are updated and patched regularly, of course!). While there are many password related issues that can cause serious security problems for your business (especially if you handle sensitive data), such as shared administrator passwords and repeatedly using the same password for multiple logins, today I want to focus on weak and insecure passwords that, if left in place, are a sure way modern hackers will eventually get into your systems—without you even knowing anything’s wrong!
As some of you already know, we have moved our Nashville office to a bigger space that makes it easier to support our growing number of raving fans (We currently have 14,307 raving fans!) in and around Nashville, TN.
In case, you’re wondering, our Nashville office is now located just a mile from its original location at:
Dynamic Edge, Inc.
615 Main Street Suite 101
Nashville, TN 37206
Over the last 6 months we have seen a 304% increase in cyber-attacks on organizations ranging from 10 to 250 users. Dynamic Edge focus on network security, but that isn’t the only reason we are growing…
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With the new administration’s intended border tax proposals, many companies of all sizes have been focused on re-planning their moves abroad. Special attention of late have gone to manufacturing companies like Toyota, Ford and Carrier. But outsourced technical work will likely be hit hard too! Among those listening the closest have been off-shored IT services and programming.
Major Hi-Tech Companies Meet To Discuss Impact on Off-shored IT
President Trump’s proposed border tax will assuredly impact the IT industry heavily. Relying both on H-1B visa holders as well as off-shored workers to fulfill IT support and customized programming demands, new border taxes will hit your bottom line if you offshore your IT in any capacity. In a meeting attended by leading business leaders in technology, including the founder of Dell Computers, Michael Dell, President Trump underscored that “if you go to another country, we are going to be imposing a very major border tax”. The actual numbers are expected to be seen in the coming months.
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