Security News
A new report from data protection provider Infrascale discusses how ransomware and other cyberattacks can harm SMBs and how they can better protect their critical data in the event of an attack. Data protection is designed to defend data against both internal and external threats, including data corruption, server crashes, human error, malicious attacks, and even natural disasters.
The Global Cyber Alliance announced the release of an updated version of its Cybersecurity Toolkit for Small Business. The GCA Cybersecurity Toolkit for Small Business, sponsored by Mastercard, offers free effective tools to help protect against the most common cyber threats.
Odix has officially launched FileWall for small and medium-sized businesses. With 62 percent of cyberattacks targeting SMBs resulting in 60 percent of them going out of business within six months, a new cybersecurity solution had to come to the market and at an attractive price point for SMBs. FileWall was built with sponsorship from the European Commission to provide enterprise-grade CDR malware protection for SMBs. FileWall is a native CDR-based security application for Microsoft Office 365 mailboxes available on Microsoft AppSource.
A new report from network software company Untangle examines some of the security challenges faced by SMBs and includes advice on how to build an effective security posture. A second security challenge faced by SMBs are employees who don't follow the proper security guidelines.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg's former CISO and Splunk security advisor Mick Baccio explains the cybersecurity best practices he learned from protecting a presidential candidate's campaign. Dan Patterson, a senior producer for CNET and CBS News, spoke with Mick Baccio, former CISO of the Pete Buttigieg campaign, and now a security advisor for Splunk, about keeping a campaign safe from cyberattacks.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg's former CISO and Splunk security advisor Mick Baccio explains the cybersecurity best practices he learned from protecting a presidential candidate's campaign.
The Orbi Pro WiFi 6 Tri-band Mesh System is an industry leading tri-band WiFi 6 multi-node mesh system designed to grow with small businesses and home offices as the need to expand their area of network coverage increases. Featuring the latest WiFi data security standard, WPA3, along with 4 SSIDs and VLAN support, the Orbi Pro WiFi 6 Mesh System provides a secure network while also isolating connections for separate activities, making it the ideal solution for today's work from home paradigm.
"It's essential to comprehensively monitor an organization's critical systems, regardless of the size of the business," said Rob Scott, president and CEO at Cygilant. "Risks are constantly increasing - while financial and staffing resources are decreasing. This is why a solution that teams LogPoint and Cygilant can make a difference."
The increasing number of sophisticated cyber threats will lead to a rise in demand for Managed Detection and Response solutions from small and medium businesses. "MDR providers offer organizations the technology, process, and people to enable the proactive monitoring of their customer security environment and 24/7 threat detection to help mitigate security breaches, even more so during COVID-19.".
Despite a quarter of respondents saying they could recover data lost in a disaster in under 10 minutes and 30% in under an hour, 16% confess that they don't know their RTO, or recovery time objective, which is an important measure that shows how quickly an organization can bounce back from a data loss. "Make no mistake," Reeder said, "If a business does not have a disaster recovery solution in place, or at the very least a solution to back up its data, there is no way it can get the data back from a data loss event."