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Why Zero Day Recovery is Essential to your Company’s Security

The Zero-Day-Recovery Cybersecurity Strategy One of the most immediate and adverse effects of a malware attack is the potential for the affected company to come to a complete productive halt. This is the case for all sorts of malware ranging from data-stealing Trojans to data-locking ransomware. Every moment that a company spends offline to deal…
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Network Separation: Is it an Impenetrable Security Measure?

A major malware attack against Singapore’s Health Service sector has motivated the Singaporean Government to adopt a new strategy for protecting these systems from future cyber threats. The security measure that will be employed is called “Network Separation”, and involves completely disconnecting computers from the internet.   The Cyberattack on SingHealth SingHealth, short for Singapore…
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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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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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VoIP & Its Benefits For Your Business

VoIP & Its Benefits For Your Business Most of the businesses nowadays are using VoIP. Ever wondered what is it? Allow us to help you understand this technology and how you can use it to benefit your business. Dictionary definition: Voice Over Internet Protocol or VoIP is a technology that allows you to make and…
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