Small and midsize businesses are targeted by cyber criminals more than large companies. There are many reasons why this is true, but the biggest reason is because they are easy targets. Hackers know smaller companies don’t have large budgets to be able to invest in cybersecurity tools, so there will likely be many vulnerabilities they…
IT managers often don’t realize how much is involved with mobile security until they start dealing with it. Not only do they have to manage and monitor all mobile devices each user has, but they also have to ensure they don’t disrupt other workflows or help desk operations. If your company’s IT department is struggling…
Growth is almost always a good thing for businesses. However, company growth can go wrong if you aren’t prepared from an IT standpoint. Performance monitoring is a major aspect of successful businesses around the world. Finding scalable solutions is challenging for in-house IT departments, as well as determining how they will monitor multiple locations, provide…
The biggest problem that IT departments have nowadays is, lack of resources to deliver on their requirements. A simple solution is to hire more people, but with extremely thin and restrictive IT budgets that might not be an option. Even when you have that budget to hire someone you will need them to have experience…
In today’s dynamic world of cloud computing, a lot of things get taken for granted. One of them is how cloud business solutions impact IoT. Whether you’re looking for cost-effective solutions, scalability, data integration, security enhancements or anything else, chances are the cloud will be a perfect solution. There are many components to think about…
Employ cryptographic mechanisms to protect the confidentiality of remote access sessions. What this control is looking for is something that is FIPS Validated or compliant to be used to be wrapped around remote access. FIPS is described here. What this essentially means is that your encryption needs to be one of the kinds listed here.…
As a small business owner, one of your biggest fears is likely having to deal with a cyber attack at some point. Statistics show most small businesses that go through one of these attacks have to close their doors shortly afterward due to the cost of getting everything back to normal. The only problem is…
False positive monitoring alerts may seem harmless on the surface, but they can be very demanding on your IT staff. It usually isn’t possible to know right away whether an alert is legitimate or a false positive. This means your employee has to investigate the issue and escalate it if needed. The potential for two…
Network downtime will happen to every organization at some point. The main goal for business owners is to minimize it as much as possible since every minute of downtime equates to lost money and productivity. Diagnosing the cause of downtime is critical so you can pinpoint the issue and work to solve it promptly. Working…
Cause analysis is often referred to as Root Cause Analysis and is the method of identifying the source of a problem. This method of discovering the source of why something has occurred is detailed here. Root Cause analysis varies slightly when dealing with IT-based issues. We will include IT-based thinking and methods in this document.…
