Posts by Christopher Jones
Safeguarding Sensitive Data
Safeguarding Sensitive Data from unauthorized access is crucial for maintaining security. Let’s explore some effective best practices: Train Employees: Educate your team about security best practices. While Hollywood might depict hackers as sunglasses-wearing keyboard warriors, the reality is that most breaches occur due to human error. Regular training helps employees recognize phishing attempts, avoid weak passwords,…
Read MoreQuishing: The Cybersecurity Dangers of the QR Code
Have you heard of the new term, quishing? During the pandemic, we all saw a huge rise in the usage of QR codes. Suddenly, there was a QR code for everything and everywhere along with tags about social distancing. Granted, it made perfect sense and made things possible which otherwise wouldn’t have been due to…
Read MoreCybersecurity in the Workplace: 4 Tips to Keep Your Business Safe and Secure
Keeping information safe and secure is challenging developments for businesses of all sizes over the last few years. Expeditious shifts from in-person to online to hybrid workplaces forced companies to change, or at least reexamine, their cybersecurity practices and protocols, and far too often they weren’t prepared. In fact, according to CyberEdge’s Cyberthreat Defense Report,…
Read MoreAccess Control Systems – Why Your Business Needs One
We all know that Cybercrime is on the rise, but we also know that physical crime against people and property is on the rise as well. Even if your business has never been the victim of a physical break-in, burglary, theft or insider threat, it doesn’t mean that it won’t happen tomorrow. Most businesses can…
Read MoreCybersecurity In The Home: 3 Steps Households Can Take
The COVID-19 pandemic forced millions of Americans to embrace working from their own home; a concept they had limited or no experience with at the time. And while many employees have returned to the office, a recent University of Chicago study found that 72% of those workers surveyed would like to continue working from home…
Read MoreConcerned About Cyber?
4 Easy Steps for Staying Secure in 2022 Cybersecurity has become one of the biggest hot topics both inside and outside of technology circles over the last two years. From securing learning devices due to a rise in digital learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, to coping with the fallout of high-profile breaches of national infrastructure…
Read MoreMulti-Factor Authentication
When we think about secure authentication, we often think about a username with a strong password. Although strong passwords are important, it is often not enough to secure access to computer systems, networks and the Internet. For this we need MFA, which is short for Multi-Factor Authentication.
Read MoreInformation Security Policy – Why Your Organization Needs One
Information security policies are a set of written statements that form the foundation of an organization’s security program. They are put into place to govern employee’s behavior regarding the security of an organization’s information and information technology. What is Information Security? Going back to the basics, it’s important to understand the concept of information security.…
Read MoreSecurity Awareness – A Tale of Two Perspectives
Meet Bob, who works in Anytown, USA as a loan officer and has been with the company for about nine months. He loves working for DollarBank, takes pride in his work and has a strong motivation to do a job well done. Bob does everything that is asked of him and completes every assignment on…
Read MoreMortgage Fraud
Today I came across an article about mortgage fraud and it captured my attention. Our digital identities are increasingly falling into the hands of the bad actors. Scheme after scheme of elaborate financial fraud tactics, techniques and procedures are seemingly around every corner. Our most confidential information is becoming routinely stolen, hijacked and held up…
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