Think about the last time an unplanned IT problem disrupted your business operations.
Maybe it was a cyberattack, a server crash or a slow network that affected the daily workings of your business. How much precious time did you lose? How much frustration did it bring to you and your customers?
This is the cost of reactive IT: unplanned downtime, lost revenue and unnecessary frustration.
You adopted the cloud for speed, scalability, and cost-efficiency—and you’ve stayed because it continues to deliver flexibility, rapid deployments, and seamless access across your teams. But while the advantages are clear, so are the risks. A single click on the wrong link or one compromised file can expose vulnerabilities—and cybercriminals are always watching for an opening.
Managing a business on your own is challenging enough without worrying about cyberattacks. However, there is cause for alarm as hackers are using artificial intelligence (AI) to launch sophisticated cyberattacks to steal your data and disrupt business operations.
The good news is there are steps you can take to protect your business. This blog will explain how AI is being used in cybercrime and how you can safeguard your business.
As we reflect on the first quarter of 2024, we are filled with gratitude for your continued support and trust of our valued clients. It’s been a remarkable journey of growth, with a 30% increase in our operations compared to last year, and we owe this success to both our new and long-standing partners. Your support and confidence in our services has been a key part of our success.
As technology continues to advance, more and more businesses like yours are adopting Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications due to their flexibility, affordability and user-friendly nature. These cloud-based services have become a staple in the corporate world, offering tools that range from email and communication platforms to customer relationship management and project tracking systems.
In today's business landscape, data isn't just power -- it's the very lifeline that fuels business decisions, drives innovations and shapes strategies. However, businesses often find it difficult to effectively manage the vast amounts of data they hold, and that's where data management comes into play.
Your network is your business’s lifeline.
A healthy and secure network is critical for seamless communication and operational efficiency. That’s why it’s crucial to proactively identify issues and optimize performance through continuous network security monitoring.
However, as you keep a close watch, you’ll discover many issues lurking beneath the surface. In this blog, we’ll take a look at these hidden challenges and how to tackle them to ensure robust network security.\
Businesses today face a range of cybersecurity threats, from social engineering attacks like phishing to sophisticated ransomware. For business leaders like you, protecting your network is crucial since it is the lifeline of your business. Any vulnerability in your network can compromise your sensitive data, operational integrity and stakeholder trust. That's why you must understand and address these threats through proactive measures, such as routine security scans and network testing.
Is your business prepared to confront today’s growing cybersecurity threats?
Although adopting the latest technologies and industry trends is undoubtedly crucial, it is equally important to ensure that your business has the best cyber liability insurance. Think of it as an invisible shield protecting your business from devastating losses. However, to harness its full potential and ensure robust protection, it is critical to have a nuanced understanding of it.
In this blog, we'll delve into the key considerations when shopping for cyber liability insurance. But before we do that, let's first understand the difference between first-party coverage and third-party coverage.
In the current digital environment, where cyberthreats are commonplace, it makes perfect sense to have cyber liability insurance. However, just having a policy in place doesn’t guarantee a smooth claims process.
Cyber insurance policies come with varying terms and coverage, requiring meticulous examination of inclusions and exclusions and deciphering technical jargon. Having a thorough understanding of your policy sets realistic expectations and prepares you to handle potential cyber incidents with confidence.
This blog aims to help you get the most out of your cyber liability insurance. Keep reading to learn more.
Keeping sensitive data and critical tech safe from cyberattacks is crucial for businesses like yours. Your survival and growth depend on how well your organization can withstand cyberthreats. That's where cyber risk management comes into play.
Businesses with solid cyber risk management strategies can build formidable cyber defenses and reduce risks without compromising business growth. Besides enhancing security, it also ensures your business stays compliant.
In this blog, we'll share the core principles of cyber risk management and show you how integrating it with a simple but effective security framework can help you achieve strategic success.
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, where cyberthreats and vulnerabilities continually emerge, it’s obvious that eliminating all risk is impossible. Yet, there’s a powerful strategy that can help address your organization’s most critical security gaps, threats and vulnerabilities — comprehensive cyber risk management.
Digital transformation is necessary for all businesses that want to thrive in today's competitive market. It helps businesses like yours win new customers, improve efficiency and increase profits. However, due to several misconceptions, many business owners hesitate to take the digital plunge.
In this blog, we'll discuss the most common digital transformation misconceptions and share insights to help you make more informed decisions and drive business growth.
When creating a budget for your business, it’s important to remember that technology costs are more than just operational expenses. They should be considered an investment that can drive your organization toward unprecedented productivity, growth and profitability.
Your technology budgeting process shouldn’t just be about numbers and spreadsheets. Instead, it should be about shaping the future of your business and seizing the potential of cutting-edge technologies to transform the way you operate, engage with customers and outpace your competition.
Social media has significantly transformed the way we communicate and do business. However, this growing popularity also comes with potential risks that could cause harm to businesses like yours.
Unfortunately, many organizations remain unaware of these rapidly evolving challenges. In this blog, we will explore the dangers associated with social media and share practical tips to safeguard your organization’s reputation and financial stability so that you can safely reap the benefits of social media platforms.
Microsoft is continuously adapting its offerings and pricing to meet the evolving needs of businesses. In 2019, the New Commerce Experience (NCE) was launched as an evolution of their Cloud Solution Provider program. The NCE assists its partners (us) and their customers (businesses) by providing greater choice in flexibility, simplified licensing and savings for long-term […]
With the business world heavily reliant on digitalization in this day and age, the use of technology in your organization is unavoidable. Although technology can undeniably give your business an advantage in increasingly competitive markets, there are many troublesome areas to keep an eye on. This is why interest in cybersecurity has risen in recent years.
Sophos Intercept X with Extended Detection and Response (XDR) has been rated the #1 XDR solution by G2 users in their spring 2023 reports (March 2023). G2 distinctions and rankings are based solely on independent, verified customer reviews on G2.com, the world’s largest software marketplace and peer-review platform.
Blake Ellingham is a site reliability engineering (SRE) manager who has worked on Duo for the past five years. Starting in Austin, Ellingham’s commitment to building connections with managers and colleagues while understanding the evolving business needs once acquired by Cisco led him to grow engineering teams in London and soon in Sydney.
What prompted Ellingham to pursue a career with Duo and go on these adventures? A sticker. Read on to learn about Ellingham’s journey.
n today’s environment, you cannot go too long without learning about the latest company breach, social media hack, or vulnerability compromise. What likely ensues in the fallout are mass compromised user credentials, negative brand impact and significant financial consequences. The pervasive nature of these events has become almost commonplace, like talking about the weather. But it doesn’t have to be, or they can at least be minimized. Cyber hygiene – or cybersecurity hygiene – can help organizations secure their most critical data and mitigate security compromise.
Today we use passwords to “unlock” access to our most important private information, but even 2,000 years ago people needed a secure way to “lock” and “unlock” secret messages between one another. Since we use more modern methods of encryption for securing information today, understanding at least a tiny bit of how these ancient methods work can help us understand how passwords work today.
While no business hopes to need it, a disaster recovery plan is crucial to ensuring a company’s digital health—especially in the worst of circumstances. While some businesses keep their disaster recovery planning and operations in-house, others choose to outsource it. A disaster recovery as a service provider can manage a difficult, and ever-changing, task for companies not equipped to handle it themselves or free up valuable time and energy for any organization looking to protect its assets.
Last month two companies, Twilio and Cloudflare, were attacked by cyber criminals. While it may be tempting to dismiss these attacks as simply being the latest in a long list of high-profile attacks that have occurred over the last few years, there were several aspects about the Twilio and Cloudflare attacks that made them stand out. The cyber attackers used new and advanced phishing techniques against these companies which are likely to be used again in the future.
The key to delivering prime customer service comes from switching from a traditional phone system to a cloud-based phone system. Using a cloud hosted business phone system has various features that can improve customer service and satisfaction. As a result of increasing gas prices and the economic downturn experienced at a global scale, the cost […]
We trot out the same tired advice every year and most people have heard it all before. We only have our coworkers’ attention for a short bit each year, so we ought to be sure we are arming them with the most impactful advice possible. It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month once again — the time we set aside […]
Because many users are so familiar with the process of accepting a push request, MFA fatigue might lead them to absent-mindedly or accidentally hit the “accept” button, even if it’s not them. From there, the attacker has the freedom to roam a company’s internal resources. As people and organizations find new and exciting ways to […]
With MDR in place via a managed SOC, MSPs can go on the offensive by detecting and containing security threats before they spread. Hackers have a deep playbook for penetrating networks. Even when managed service providers (MSPs) provide their clients with a robust defense, malicious actors can still infiltrate systems to launch ransomware or other […]
The increasing rate of ransomware attacks in retail demonstrates that adversaries have become considerably more capable of executing attacks at scale by successfully deploying the ransomware-as-a-service model. Sophos just released the State of Ransomeware in Retail 2022 report which looks at the most recent insights into ransomware attack rates, costs, recovery, and payouts by retail […]
