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How to Strengthen Cyber Defense against Ransomware
Over the years, little, if any, has changed as far as cyber defense against ransomware is concerned. Fast forward to the coronavirus pandemic, and ransomware is causing significant challenges for hospitals and health care providers in particular. Researchers involved in a recent Microsoft study on ransomware targets often observed how attackers got their initial network […]
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How the Digital World is Building Data Privacy
Data Privacy while businesses increasingly depend on computer networks and electronic data to maintain their operations, bulks of personal and financial information are transferred and stored online. This makes users at risk of privacy violations. Meanwhile, businesses and organizations suffer enormous liabilities when data breaches occur. Hundreds of millions of online records are exposed every […]
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Beware of Social Engineering Attacks During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Why Social Engineering is such a big risk currently. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced everyone, individuals and businesses alike, to rely almost solely on virtual and electronic means for both business and personal communication. In the context of web security, this means cybercriminals now have more targets than ever—that is, people, the weakest link in […]
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Best Practices for SMEs’ Data Security
Data Security at SME’s are targeted by cyber attackers for their lack of resources or expertise to effectively protect their data. Managed security services provider Alert Logic estimates that small businesses make up 58% of malware attack victims, and that 94% of these attacks are carried out through malware or phishing emails disguised as bills, […]
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How Biometric Authentication Improves User and Enterprise Security?
Biometric authentication is a method of digital identification and authentication through physical or behavioral human characteristics for access to systems, devices, or data. It is one of the methods that drive both two-factor authentication (2FA) and multifactor authentication (MFA). Biometrics is one of the technologies that are being adopted as more advanced methods to address increasing […]
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Covid-19 Strengthening the Case against Passwords
Password breaches as a result of Covid-19 cyber attacks continue to strengthen the case for getting rid of passwords and adopting passwordless authentication across all types of transactions and settings. Not that the case has ever been weak to begin with. The World Economic Forum for example, projected that password-related attacks would make up 80% of […]
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7 Priciest Data Breach Penalties Ever
The cost of a data breach is becoming more pricey—especially with the introduction of international data protection laws such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018. According to IBM, a breach of 1 million records has an average total cost of 42 million USD, which represents an eight percent growth from 2018. […]
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How to get Free Passwordless Login Security
TraitWare® offers FREE Passwordless Login Security to Citrix customers First and foremost, the health and safety of friends and families takes precedence. With the developing changes surrounding the COVID-19 emergency, companies are adopting rapid procedures to help protect their employees. The most immediate change that most companies are adopting is a shift to working remotely. […]
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How to Improve User Experience through Passwordless Authentication
An unproductive workforce can harm your bottom line. That’s the long and short of it. This is why you need to improve user experience. In detail, employee un-productivity affects overall organizational morale, particularly after poor performance and missed deadlines followed by poor customer reviews, loss of clients, failure to land clients, and so on. One […]
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5 Ways To Protect Your Company Against Hackers
How are you protecting your company? Most data breaches in the headlines involve big companies—Yahoo, Facebook, Equifax. However, while smaller companies are off the news radar, this does not mean that they are immune from malicious attacks. In fact, the risk is even higher as many small businesses may not have proper security measures and […]
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DUH, IT IS THE ECONOMY
Most of you who read these articles are the techie/nerdie/geekie types. I am the guy who sits across the table from you, and to be perfectly honest, I really don’t understand much of what you are saying. That being said, I am very concerned, interested and focused on the bottom line. If there is an […]
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How Data Privacy Protection Increases Business Value
For businesses, maintaining data privacy and protecting consumer information is very important for day-to-day operations. With many laws and regulations to protect data privacy, companies are expected to safeguard sensitive information effectively. However, despite these numerous data privacy legislation’s, consumers’ privacy is still regularly getting invaded or compromised by organizations. In this article, we will […]