Customer PortalItems to consider when determining the legitimacy of a website 1. Domain name: Scammers often create domain names that are intentionally similar to well-known websites, using misspellings or variations. For example, they might replace letters with similar-looking numbers (e.g., “g00gle.com” instead of “google.com”). Always double-check the domain name for any inconsistencies or unusual variations. 2.…
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2023 Business Technology Trends
Today, every business is a technology business. Whether you are in retail, manufacturing, or healthcare, your company relies on a wealth of data, applications, and devices to spur growth and keep operations running. However, many businesses do not have internal IT talent. Instead, they rely on outsourced IT providers to deliver digital transformation and efficiency.…
Trends in Data Privacy That You Should Have on Your Radar
If we have learned anything from the pandemic, it is the fact that anything can change at any time. We also found we will adjust to the change, learn to live with it, and even take advantage of it if possible. Unpredictability is the rule of the game, and what follows could be very interesting…
What’s the Difference Between Vulnerability Assessment & Vulnerability Management?
When it comes to cybersecurity, there are a lot of terms thrown around. Two of the most common are vulnerability assessment and vulnerability management. But what do they mean? And more importantly, what’s the difference between the two? 43% of cyber-attacks are targeted at small businesses, but only 14% are prepared to properly defend themselves.…
6 Things to Know Before You Get Cybersecurity Insurance
Many small businesses assume they don’t need cybersecurity insurance because they don’t store sensitive data, but that’s not always the case. Even if you don’t have customer Social Security numbers or credit card information on file, you could still be liable for damages if your site is hacked, and customer data is compromised. These security…
How to Balance User Authentication Security with User Convenience
According to the latest Cost of a Data Breach Report by IBM Security, compromised passwords are the main cause of data breaches around the world. This is an alert to both small businesses and large enterprises that access security and authentication should be a high priority for any cybersecurity strategy. While it’s well known that…
reCAPTCHA: What It Is and Why You Should Use It on Your Website
Every once in a while, you will encounter a prompt that asks you to prove whether you are a human or not. These are called CAPTCHAs or Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. To put it simply, it is a cybersecurity measure meant to differentiate humans from bots. reCAPTCHA is…
Pros & Cons of Using Facebook or Google for Logins
A few years back, large cloud services like Google and Facebook, began allowing other websites and services to authenticate new users through their websites. OAuth, which stands for Open Authorization allows signing in to services such as Zoom, without setting up a new account; instead, it uses Google ID or Facebook login information. Many find this…
Tips to Identify Scams/Scammers & How to Avoid Being a Victim
Malware and ransomware attacks continue going up. In 2020, ransomware attacks increased 485%, and during the first half of 2021, they’ve risen another 151%. Cyberattacks have become one of the biggest risks to an organization. Falling victim to one can mean hundreds of thousands of dollars in remediation costs. This makes IT security defenses a…
How Not to Look Like a Spammer When Sending Emails
Have you ever sent an email to a client only to have it “lost?” Missing emails can cause delays that hurt your business and make it difficult for you to properly communicate with those outside your organization. A common occurrence is to find out that at first the recipient thought they never received your email,…