Windows 10 Upgrade Guide
There’s no doubt that now is the time to upgrade your organization to Windows 10: Microsoft will end technical assistance and no longer provide security updates for Windows 7 from January 14, 2020 onward. The clock is also ticking on…
Top IoT Trends to Look for in 2020
As the internet of things (IoT) revolution gains momentum, and our homes, devices, and workplaces become increasingly interconnected, what can we expect from the market in 2020? One certainty is that the potential is there for small and medium businesses…
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Future-Proof Your Legacy Windows Server Applications
Extended support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 will end on January 14, 2020 – which greatly exposes your vulnerability to security attacks as Microsoft halts their maintenance and security patches. If you are still running Windows Server 2008 (or earlier)…
End of Support Isn’t the Only reason to Migrate from Windows 7. Here’s Why.
The looming end of support for Windows 7 should be enough to prompt any business to accelerate migration to Windows 10. But fear of being marooned on an insecure operating system isn’t the only reason to make the move –…
4 Risks of Not Upgrading to Windows 10
If you’re still running Windows 7 or Windows 8, you could be vulnerable to a range of risks. That’s because Microsoft ended mainstream support for Windows 7 way back in January 2015, and its extended support will end in January…
8 Tips for Detecting a Phishing Email
As email phishing tactics continue to increase in sophistication, fraudulent emails are looking more and more legitimate making it difficult for the average user to tell whether an email message is fraudulent or real. In this post we offer tips…
Are You Ready for Windows 7 End of Support this January?
As we get closer to January, the inquiries about Microsoft ending support for Windows 7 on January 14, 2020 are increasing daily. Post January 14, Microsoft will not be providing any security updates or support for PCs running Windows 7….
Email Security Strategy: Why Automated Security Awareness Training Is Critical
Computer-based training (CBT) for information security awareness is increasingly more important in the fight against today’s explosion of costly phishing and other social-engineering attacks, and while we all know that teaching folks how to spot and avoid malicious email is…
5 Steps to Get Started Protecting Your Data
More than 1.9 billion records containing personal and other sensitive data were compromised between January 2017 and March 2019. That’s according to the latest EY Global Information Security Survey, and a sobering reminder why businesses of all sizes must act…
Cybersecurity Best Practices: Strategies for IT, Legal & Insurance
Cyberattacks are not only on the rise, they hit businesses every day. The broadness of the scope of illegal access and the sophistication and diversity of threats aimed at unauthorized information access have skyrocketed. Phishing, Malware, Ransomware, Password Breaches, Denial…
IT Security Best Practices: Quick Tips to Help Secure Your Network
Cyberattacks are on the rise. Phishing, Malware, Ransomware, Password Breaches & Denial of Service Attacks have changed in design and grown in complexity, so there’s no better time to refresh on some basic best practices to secure your network. Password…
Stop Ransomware in its Tracks
“Oops, your files have been encrypted!” It’s a message nobody ever wants to see, yet it was what greeted workers in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) in May 2017. This was the WannaCry (a.k.a. WannaCrypt or WannaCryptor 2.0) malware….
Cybersecurity Outlook for 2019
We all know data is valuable, but too often we act as if it isn’t. Valuables are often secured – kept in safes, insured, treated with care. With valuable business and personal data moving around the internet all the time,…
Where CIOs Are Focusing Heading into 2019
Gartner’s latest annual CIO Agenda survey of more than 3,000 CIOs in 98 countries found that 95 per cent of CIOs expect digitalization to change their jobs. IT delivery is seen as a given, with the two-key transformation in the…
