As cyber security threats continue to increase, Small Businesses need to constantly assess and resolve their IT vulnerabilities.
These days, no business can avoid the issue of cybersecurity. From agriculture to software development, small businesses that want to take advantage of today's technology need to recognize the consequent need to find and maintain system security.

Be secure. Use technology to transform our business (aka Digital Transformation). No downtime. Be able to work anywhere, anytime and on any device. Leverage the Internet of Things. These sound like a New Year’s Resolution list for the CIO of a large enterprise right? But what about small businesses where resources are scarce and the luxury of a full service IT team is just a dream.

Just a couple weeks ago, I talked about What is Ransomware and explained how the threat is very real to both small businesses and larger organizations. We discussed how it could end up costing your business big if appropriate precautions are not implemented.

Let's talk about Cybersecurity Threats for Small Businesses. In an era where the average cost of a single data breach has reached $3.62 million according to Ponemon Institute, to say that cybersecurity for small business environments is essential is something of an understatement.

School districts need advanced network capabilities in order to provide reliable wireless service to students, teachers, and administrators. If they cut corners on this crucial resource, users may experience inadequate coverage which, in turn, negatively impacts learning.

The last thing you want is for your company to appear in a headline about cyber security—because if your business is on the front page, chances are the news isn’t the best type of news. Online cyber security breaches and data compliance problems are happening every day around the world, but they don’t have to happen to YOUR organization.

(This post was written by Checkpoint and first appeared on the Checkpoint Blog.)

The Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities recently discovered in Intel, AMD and ARM processors, are fairly complex.

In this post we will try to simplify what the problem is, how it could affect your business and what actions can be taken to protect against it.

If you’re a business then you likely have a handful, if not dozens of computers with important files and/or client information stored on them. You also probably have an intranet and a public facing internet website, which form your IT network. In our experience, businesses come out ahead when they allow professionals to handle their IT network, enabling the business to focus on their core mission.

What is Ransomware? Everywhere you look, it seems like there's a new eye-popping statistic that illustrates the threat posed by ransomware, whether it's the yearly growth rate of 350% percent, or the fact that it's expected to cause over $5 billion in damages in 2017 alone.

(This article was written by Brian Goldfarb and was first posted on Splunk.com)

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