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The Best Defense Against Ransomware  Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts files on a device or network, making them unusable until the victim pays the attacker a ransom. What started as a simple virus spread through floppy discs in the late 1980s...

Human-error; we talk about it all the time, but what exactly do we mean? Human-error occurs when an individual performs a task or does something with an unintended outcome. It’s easy to point the finger at employee’s as being an organization’s weakest link, but...

Prices may go down over the holidays but hacking incidents go up.  Way up.  While online shopping is something we all need to be diligent about when it comes to our personal cybersecurity, we need to be mindful of our working environment as well. Many employees take...

Security threats come from everywhere. Detecting those threats before they cause damage is paramount to an organization’s success.  Even though some threat detections require technical skills, the ultimate threat detection is you--the human firewall. In this month’s...

A common misconception is that cybercrime only affects big businesses. Not only does cybercrime impact businesses of all sizes, it has huge negative repercussions that can impact us personally as well. In this month’s security newsletter, learn about some of the...