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Why Protecting Your Server is Critical to your Company’s Cybersecurity

A server is a computer that is connected to other systems in a company through either the internet or a local network, and that dedicates its resources to ‘serving’ these computers. Because of this, servers are in constant communication with all company systems, storing, processing, and communicating data. Due to the fact that they are…
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Improving your Network’s Security against Online Malware

Improving your Network’s Security against Online Malware Contrary to popular belief, online malware does not exclusively focus on breaching large corporations. Instead, The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) stresses that most malware attacks are indiscriminate in their target selection, and are just as likely to affect home or small business networks as large…
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Best Practices Against The New “Spectre” And “Meltdown” Cyberthreats

Best Practices Against The New “Spectre” And “Meltdown” Cyberthreats The cybersecurity threats “Spectre” and “Meltdown” were first discovered January of this year as vulnerabilities that allowed attackers to gain access to sensitive information on computers using modern Intel, AMD, or ARM CPUs. While the name “Spectre” included Variants 1 and 2 of the vulnerability, “Meltdown”…
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Four Essential GDPR Requirements To Consider

Four Essential GDPR Requirements To Consider A survey carried out by the ISACA found that a mere 29% of companies worldwide will be prepared for the compliance deadline of new the GDPR requirements, which will be implemented on May 25th 2018. The new regulation outlines requirements for businesses in order to protect the personal information…
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DDoS Attack

How DDoS Attacks Affects SMEs

How DDoS Attacks Affects SMEs Under Distributed Denial of Service or DDoS, a type of cyber attack, the website of a business experiences outages or unexpected downtime. The targeted site runs slow or becomes inaccessible. Attackers, do not limit themselves to large organizations but they also attack the small and medium-sized enterprises or SMEs. In…
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Business Email Solutions

Importance of Business Email Systems

Importance of Business Email Systems Businesses still choose email systems over the new short-form of communication platforms such as chat & social-networking apps. According to market research firm The Radicati Group (PDF), the total number of business and consumer e-mails sent and received each day worldwide will hit 269 billion in 2017. The “E-mail Use…
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Cyber Security

Cyber Security Tips For Small Businesses

Cyber Security Tips For Small Businesses The ways of doing business have drastically changed because of the revolutionizing digitization. And like every revolution digitization has its pros and cons. Enhanced productivity and improved efficiency are a couple of its advantages. Whereas its most significant disadvantage is its susceptibility to cyber security vulnerabilities. These threats are…
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Email Security

Is your Organization’s Email System Safe?

Is your Organization’s Email System Safe? Email is the most preferred mode of communication when it comes to businesses. Whether one wants to communicate with a client or a colleague, share events or files, everyone uses email. In fact, it has become one’s personal identity, without email, opening an online bank account or social media,…
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Ransomware Protection

Make your Business Safe From Ransomware Attack

3 Preventive Measures To Make your Business Safe From Ransomware Attack What is a Ransomware? A ransomware is a malicious software, that encrypts computer files preventing users to access their files or that threatens to publish the victim's data and asks for ransom payment to not publish the data or decrypt or unlock the files…
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