The list of companies that have had their data security breached seems endless: Target, Facebook, T-Mobile, Marriott, Quest Laboratories, Quora, Equifax and on and on and on. It’s no wonder that a recent study by Cisco showed that 31% of organizations have, at some point, encountered breaches of their data security infrastructure.

Today, it’s common for enterprises to outsource their non-core functions to vendors. It makes good business sense to focus company resources on your business and let other companies handle the standard IT infrastructure, but only if the associated risks are identified and managed.

Major data breaches are a destructive reality– and the problem is growing. According to a Ponemon Institute study, 59% of companies said that they have experienced a data breach caused by one of their vendors or third-parties.

What do the City of atlanta, Hancock health, the Chicago Police Department, Boeing, and Finger lakes health all have in common? Ransomware.

The last decade saw a dramatic increase of enterprise employees leaving the confines of the company building to work remotely. The State of the Remote Job Marketplace report from FlexJobs found 2.9% of the entire United States workforce works from home at least half of the time. This introduces a significant security challenge for network managers.

Active Directory (AD) is so ubiquitous on Windows networks that many organizations have not invested time optimizing the tool. However, this consideration is critical. Your AD configuration has significant process and network security implications, so it’s important that you prioritize a review of how you’re currently managing the service. Here are a few guidelines to follow as you assess your current set up:

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Though the days of robbing banks aren’t over, the attacks on the financial services sector have definitely evolved. Instead of coming up with an elaborate plan that includes avoiding the inevitable security cameras outside a bank, people with malicious intent are choosing a route that gives them access to a wealth of information from to comfort of their home, a cyberattack.

For many, creating a password starts with something easy. A pet’s name, a birthday, some even simply settle for the simple “password.” The truth is, any easy to remember password is likely easy to guess.

We live in a world that wants to connect everything and anything that it can to the Internet, and because of this, it seems that everything we buy today is “smart”— our fridges, our phones, and even our wearable devices.

At the beginning of 2018, experts in the cybersecurity field predicted that bad actors attacking surfaces would continue to be a huge trend. Along the same lines, it’s widely accepted that hackers will take the easiest route available to either breach data, place a form of malware on a network, or just cause disruption.