Compliance is a critical element of many businessesā requirements, with pretty severe penalties as a consequence if the prescribed standards are not met. Even more importantly, most compliance requirements and regulations are put in place for the welfare of not only the business, but its clientele as well. This makes it critical to know which apply to your business, and how to meet them fully.
When it comes to security, one often overlooked tool is the virtual private network, or VPN. We recommend that all businesses use a VPN to keep remote and hybrid workers from inadvertently putting your businessā data at risk while out of the office. Letās go over why a VPN is so effective, as well as what you should look for in a business-grade VPN tool.
Who are you? While itās a question thatās been asked in all contexts with all levels of metaphysicality attachedāfrom asking someone their name to prompting someone to follow a path of spiritual self-discoveryāthe growth of the metaverse once again urges us to ask it in a more literal way. When accessing a conglomeration of various services and platforms, how many identities will each user need to juggle?
We arenāt going to try and pretend that the investments necessary to preserve your businessā data security are small ones. Especially at first glance, you may very well start to question if such an investment is truly necessary.
The simple fact of the matter is that, compared to the costs that a breach of privacy will incur, the investment you put into your security measures will suddenly seem like a real bargain.
Chances are, youāve gone through some old files and weeded through them, deleting what is no longer needed. This is especially important when you are upgrading your storage and getting rid of your existing storage media or an old computer. Letās talk about what really happens when youāre doing soāchances are, you may be overlooking a serious security issue.
Have you ever wondered how some platforms will only have you log in once for all of your various needs, even though they might be different applications, websites, or services? This is essentially what single sign-on is, and itās quite common in the technology world today. What is single sign-on exactly, and what kind of security does it actually provide for organizations that use it?
When we talk about data privacy in a business, the default is to generally think about the data the business has collected and compiled from its clientele. However, thatās just one type of data a business has. Thereās also a lot of data that is collected by the business about that businessā employees. So, how well protected is this data?
With manyāif not mostācomputers and especially laptops featuring integrated webcams at this point, it isnāt hard to imagine how disastrous it would be to be spied on through it. Letās take a few moments and go over a few ways to be sure that your webcam isnāt being used without your consent by someone else.
Facebook is many peopleās favoriteāor at least most usedāapp and it does bring value to people by letting them keep tabs on friends and family, or grow their businesses. It has grown to be one of the largest, most successful software technology companies in the world. Unfortunately, with that type of exposure comes the responsibility of securing massive amounts of personal data. In this quest, they leave a lot to be decided. Today, we take a look at the situation Facebook is in as they are dealing with one of the largest data leaks in history.
A lot has been made about biometric authentication over the past decade, so much so that it has been loosely integrated into a lot of the access control mechanisms on most modern mobile devices. Fingerprint scanners, retina scanners, and facial recognition are all part of the transition to biometrics to enhance security and privacy. For modern businesses, however, implementing biometrics can have some major drawbacks. Today, we will go over the pros and cons of biometric authentication.
Weāre getting close to the end of 2020. Finally? Has it been a long year for you? Has it gone by really fast? I think every other day I have a different opinion about it.
Either way, itās time to look at 2021. A fresh start, a clean slate. I think if there is one big mindset all business owners and C-levels need to take into consideration for 2021, itās their people.
Smart assistants commonly appear in the office and home, so much so that the novelty seems to have finally worn off and they are now just another applianceāand, like any other appliance, there are a few quirks that can be frustrating to deal with. For instance, anyone living around these devices has shared a particular experience: the device registering something as a wake word that certainly wasnāt meant to be the wake word.
What if I were to tell you that, by the time you finished reading this sentence, all personal data in existence was exposed? If every text sent, every Google search executed, every website visited, everything we had ever done online, was made public? Gizmodo recently reached out to an assortment of experts for their insights. Here, weāve assembled their responses for you to consider.
Personal information is precious, especially in this increasingly digital day and age. This makes it incredibly important that you are doing everything you can to protect it in your business - whether it is your own or belongs to somebody else. Here, weāll go over a few tips to help you better protect the data youāre responsible for.
As you oversee your business, there is a lot that youāre going to have to manage - including how much access your employees have to the data you have collected and generated throughout your operations. An access management policy can help you to accomplish this. Here, weāll review a few key features you need to include in your strategy.
Nearly everyone uses Google in some way or another. The search engine is, by far, the most common way people get answers and find content online. The margins arenāt even close, either. Currently, Google handles about 90% of search queries, while the second and third place goes to Yahoo and Bing, who share just below 5% of the search market share.
Google curates the search results on the fly based on a lot of variables including where you are located, what kind of device you are on, and your online surfing habits. This means Google is collecting a lot of information about how we use the web to give us a better experience. Letās look at how you can control what Google knows about you to better protect your privacy.
I want to start this article out by admitting that there are a lot of active threats out there these days. There are hackers--hacking collectives, actually--thatās whole purpose is to infiltrate businesses and steal data, money, and most often, the trust people have in their technology. One way to help keep your stuff secure is by relying on two-factor authentication.
Weāve been talking about Facebook quite a bit on our blog, and for good reason - weāre all concerned with our privacy, and Facebook has been notoriously front-and-center when it comes to Internet privacy. In this post we will break down Facebookās privacy settings to help you gain control over your personal identity while using the social network.
Thereās a reason that cybercrime is so popular: it is no longer reserved for those with extensive programming knowledge to profit from. Now, according to a report by Deloitte entitled Black Market Ecosystem: Estimating the Cost of āPwnershipā, there is a complete economy built around easily accessible hacking tools that donāt require specialized knowledge to leverage.
Encryption is a very important tool in todayās business environment, especially if you are trying to protect your email communications. Today, weāll discuss the benefits of using encryption for your businessā communications solutions, but without an understanding of what encryption actually is, the conversation might be a little harder to understand.