Every October since 2004 has been designated by the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) as Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Cybersecurity has become one of the major risk factors that businesses of all sizes must consider. Just one ransomware attack can take a business out for days, and many smaller companies lack the resources to recover…

Often, it can be a simple lack of routine maintenance and cyber hygiene that causes some of the most devastating breaches, rather than some large, sophisticated attack. According to the Sophos 2021 Threat Report, the most damaging attacks identified last year were due to a basic lack of cybersecurity hygiene and upkeep of systems. Keeping…

Now that the dust has largely settled on the move from in-office to a remote team. Companies are now addressing what they could do better. In the initial days of the pandemic, companies were scrambling to put cloud solutions in place that made it possible for employees to work from home amid mandated stay-at-home orders.…

Cloud account security is becoming a major problem for small and large businesses alike. As more data migrates to the cloud, public SaaS breaches are becoming more common. Within the past year, 70% of surveyed organizations have suffered a public cloud data breach.  Cloud services can be vulnerable to a malware infection, ransomware, or account takeover for a…

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) and it offers an excellent opportunity to put a special emphasis on employee IT security training. Keeping your San Jose business network and devices safe from cyberattacks is a year-round effort, but it’s easy for the lessons learned about security best practices to fall by the wayside in the busyness…