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It’s time for some COOL tech to take your mind off of you know what. Here are 11 of my favorite new gadgets from fishing to fonts to a more beautiful smile. I’m all in on the exoskeleton, even though I really don’t need it. 😉 Cyberfishing Smart Rod Sensor – A small and lite sensor to put on your fishing rod to easily …

Zoom Video Conferencing – Who Gives a Sh*t About Security Anyway

You’re stuck working at home like everyone else and your company suddenly needs to figure out how to handle team communication while the COVID-19 pandemic is happening. Someone does a quick search for tools and they find Zoom, a newer platform that is popular with millennials and getting some good press. Why go with some old dodgy system that has been around for many many …

COVID 19 + Working From Home = CyberRisk

Who would have thought a month ago that your entire team would be working remotely and that they would need to be doing it for months? I can’t get the phrase “Crazy Times” out of my head every time I think about it. Do you know who is really enjoying this crazy time? Hackers! Cybercriminals are walking in tall cotton with all the business disruption …

Making Smarter Pandemic IT and Cybersecurity Decisions: Avoid Doing Good, Then Getting Hacked

Take your Cybersecurity more seriously now with COVID-19 With the COVID-19 pandemic upon us, life is disrupted, different, and often nothing like what you would have ever expected. Before the pandemic, the decisions you would make with IT and cybersecurity were deemed as accessible risk, but now that you are most likely running your business differently, you need to handle your IT and cybersecurity differently. …

Cybersecurity In The Days Of COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic is not fun for anyone. Well, except for maybe your pets since you are home all day and they have someone to pet them all day long. But for the rest of us, it is disruptive in all aspects of our lives and especially for work. If you suddenly have to work from home like many of us, were you prepared so …

How Do I Know if My Business Computers Have Been Hacked

Some of the nicest people get hacked. Don’t let it happen to you. So, how do you know if your business has been hacked? My bet is you don’t—and you may never know. The sad fact is that most of the systems you are using right now do NOT have any ability to alert you to hacker-type activities or a breach. You may be thinking, …

Basic IT Hygiene to Prevent Ransomware-10 Steps All Financial Firms Must Take

These are some thoughts from John Wooden, legendary coach of 10 UCLA Bruins NCAA Championship teams, which included notable NBA Hall of Fame players, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton, and Gail Goodrich. “I believe in the basics: attention to, and perfection of, tiny details that might be commonly overlooked. They may seem trivial, perhaps even laughable to those who don’t understand, but they aren’t. They are …

Why Backups And MFA Are So Important For Ransomware

Two of the simplest and cheapest ways to protect your company from a ransomware attack are Multifactor Authentication and a fresh backup. Here’s why. Back up everything! You are not invulnerable. Catastrophic data loss can happen to you – one worm or Trojan is all it takes. – Kevin Mitnick Just because the data is in the Cloud does not mean it’s backed up. …

The Biggest Ransomware Fiascoes of 2019

Company leaders often think that a cyber attack will never happen to them because their company and its data are of no interest to hackers. The list of companies below shared that point of view. But not anymore because they have made the list of the biggest ransomware attacks of 2019. A ransomware attack will most likely, at some point, happen to you. The more …

Cost of Ransomware Prevention Versus Recovery

It’s time to recognize cyber threats, understand them, and protect ourselves because the cost of ransomware prevention vs recovery is a hell of a lot better business decision.

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