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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."

Ninety-two percent of SMB executives said they believe their businesses are prepared to recover from a disaster. "That data suggests that there are either varying definitions of what it means to be able to recover from a disaster or, quite simply, a lack of understanding of what it truly means to be able to recover from a disaster. Make no mistake, 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."

Nearly one in seven senior decision makers said their organization has already experienced at least one cyberattack since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report by Alliant Cybersecurity. SEE: Cybersecurity: SMBs are keeping up with big companies, according to Cisco survey.

Cisco survey finds security experts at mid-sized companies have strong incident response plans and prioritize proactive threat hunting. Security teams at small businesses are just as good at defending corporate data and networks as their colleagues at bigger organizations, according to a new survey from Cisco.

Organizations hit by ransomware attacks can suffer several types of losses. A report released Tuesday by Infrascale illustrates how SMBs are faring at defending themselves against ransomware.

73% of those SMBs that have been the targets of ransomware attacks actually have paid a ransom, Infrascale reveals. B2B orgs were more likely to be ransomware targets than B2Cs. Business-to-business organizations were more likely to have experienced a ransomware attack than business-to-consumer entities, according to the Infrascale survey results.