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.

Businesses of all types are facing an increasingly challenging prospect when it comes to cybersecurity. Bad actors don’t discriminate, placing small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in just as much danger as large companies.