by Todd O'Bert | Jan 14, 2021 | Business Side of Security, Security Posture
In the 2000’s many end users believed that Anti-virus was a commodity. It wasn’t hard to find Security Companies that agreed with this notion. In those days the argument was simple to make, there are few kinds of threats that can be stopped with a signature. The...
by Todd O'Bert | Aug 28, 2019 | Business Side of Security
Last fall, Facebook was the target of a data breach that impacted nearly 30 million of its 2.4 billion users. In addition to the data breach, the FTC has been investigating the activities of the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica’s unauthorized access to...
by Todd O'Bert | Aug 13, 2019 | Business Side of Security, Stopping Hackers
You’ve probably heard about cities across the U.S. being held hostage by ransomware attacks. It seems like attacks like these are making headlines every couple of months. The story is usually the same, a city agency or perhaps the entire city’s government computers...
by Todd O'Bert | Jul 25, 2019 | Business Side of Security, Security Posture
We’ve all seen the headlines; breaches discovered months (or years) after the initial attack. Often, the length of time that hackers have access to a stolen network means the attack is deep into the systems and the amount of data being stolen is massive. Of course,...
by Todd O'Bert | Mar 5, 2019 | Business Side of Security
Whether your business has only one location or is a multinational corporation, company culture matters, especially in the case of cybersecurity. When security is treated as a priority from the top down and in every office location, it has the best chance of...
by Pete Greco | Jan 6, 2019 | Business Side of Security
Well… the sky isn’t falling, or if it is, it has been falling at the same consistent rate for a long time. That’s the way a business line manager hears it when it comes to IT security. Business leaders know that they need security but aren’t sure if Next Gen...