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  • Top Email Safety Tips & Best Practices

    Top Email Safety Tips & Best Practices

    Besides texting and social media, email is the communication hub for workers around the world. It enables more efficient communication and scheduling as well as improving organization. Yet, in the chaos of daily operations, it’s easy to overlook the security of email systems. Is your email vulnerable to security threats? Find out our top email safety tips with our comprehensive guide from RSI Security. 

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  • Soc 2 Auditing Guide

    Soc 2 Auditing Guide

    Data is growing faster than it ever has before. But it is starting to become the biggest risk of every organization. The convenience and collaboration of using data stores in the cloud means that companies and hackers have more information and more access to it by design. 

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  • How Can Managed IT Services Improve My Business?

    How Can Managed IT Services Improve My Business?

    Scaling your business quickly and effectively sometimes means that you need to turn to the professionals for assistance. In some cases, those professionals may specialize in financials or some type of business process. Other times, they focus on IT; which is exactly what managed IT services specialize in.

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  • What Are the Different Types of Data Breaches?

    What Are the Different Types of Data Breaches?

    With 2020 here, it’s a good time to take stock of the cybersecurity environment and the lessons learned over the last year. According to Norton Security, there have been approximately four billion records compromised due to breaches in 2019. Attack tactics change and new vulnerabilities emerge as threat actors become more creative. There are several different types of data breaches that can affect your business. 

    Learn about your potential threats with our comprehensive guide. 

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  • Consumer Rights Under CCPA: What You Need to Know

    Consumer Rights Under CCPA: What You Need to Know

    Is your business ready for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)? If you handle consumers’ personal information, resolve to get in compliance before it’s too late. Starting January 1, 2020 consumers are going to be entitled to protection from companies selling personal information to other third-party companies without their knowledge. They are also going to be entitled to relief from wrongful sharing of their personal information, whether or not it was leaked on purpose. Read on to find out what these new protections are and what you can do about them to reduce your liability. 

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  • Are Private Schools At a Higher Risk For Cyber Security Attacks?

    Are Private Schools At a Higher Risk For Cyber Security Attacks?

    Educational institutions have been a target for hackers for a variety of reasons in recent years. For one, most public school systems are underfunded and allocate an extremely small percentage of their budgets towards cybersecurity. But what about private schools?

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  • The Dangers of Data Breaches for Your Business

    The Dangers of Data Breaches for Your Business

    A data breach can happen when you least expect it. The impact of security breaches on business can amount to millions (or potentially billions of dollars if your organization creates that much revenue) and leave its reputation in shambles amongst industry pundits and customers alike. This is why it’s best to understand what the potential consequences of data breach are and how your business can bounce back from one if caught between a hacker and a hard place.

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  • Should My Company Become A HITRUST Assessor?

    Should My Company Become A HITRUST Assessor?

    Companies that broadly occupy the security space might consider a new service they could offer at the intersection of healthcare and cybersecurity: becoming a HITRUST assessor.

    All kinds of personal data already lives online, but now we’re faced with medical categories of data being usefully stored there as well. And the cynics and realists alike know that anything stored online is fundamentally vulnerable to cyber attacks

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  • How To Prepare For A HITRUST Audit ?

    How To Prepare For A HITRUST Audit ?

    Healthcare organizations pursue HITRUST certification because they want to demonstrate productive forward motion on cybersecurity mindfulness. A mark of HITRUST compliance means that a business has taken steps to interrogate its technological infrastructure for flaws and potential improvements. 

     

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  • The Importance of an Incident Response Plan

    The Importance of an Incident Response Plan

    Companies across all sectors realize the importance of using technology to both attract and retain customers. However, with technological integration, new cybersecurity threats are emerging every day endangering mobile messaging apps, online banking, and basically every industry. Consequently, it’s important that enterprises establish an incident response plan to deal with minor and major security threats. Despite these threats, a 2018 IBM report found that 77 percent of respondents did not have a consistent incident response plan to deploy in the event of a security breach! 

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