Cybersecurity Update: There’s No Need to Share Passwords on Microsoft Office 365 Many employees share passwords with other team members, often forgetting that doing so can have serious consequences. Consider these statistics: 81% of data breaches in 2020 were due to poor password security 42% of people share their work log-in credentials with their teammates …
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued an advisory that warns organizations of potential sanctions should they facilitate ransomware payments related to malicious cyber activities. Ransomware is a form of malicious software (also known as malware) designed to block access to a computer system or data. Malware often …
The Channel Co. has named ImageQuest to CRN’s 2021 Security 100 List. This prestigious list recognizes innovative security technologies and cybersecurity service providers that are dramatically transforming the IT landscape as we know it. “CRN’s Security 100 list identifies leading companies who provide the IT channel with innovation in a number of security areas that …
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We had several people join us in late 2020, and we’d like to introduce two of them to you. Please help us welcome Myron Grover and Kenny Gluck to our Leadership team. Myron, 38, of Nashville, is a certified Cybersecurity professional joining us as a Security Consultant. Myron will help clients be proactive towards …
Petr Nikolayevich Pliskin, 32, is a software developer who created components of the NotPetya and Olympic Destroyer malware, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Pliskin created his malware while in the employ of Russia’s GRU, or Russian Main Intelligence Directorate, according to the Justice Department. The FBI says he held a post as a …
Is your organization experiencing the following issues? Your business units don’t feel they have the proper software and applications to run their business in 2021. You feel like some of your competitors or peers have “better” systems than you do, and you don’t understand why. You can’t easily articulate what you’re spending on technology and …
If you do business with customers living in California – be aware. The state’s new data privacy law is already spawning class-action suits over data breaches. Hanna Andersson, a Portland, Ore.-based retailer of premium children’s clothing, became the first company to settle such a suit brought under the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA.) Interestingly, the …
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As we gratefully say goodbye to 2020, we should consider our New Year’s Resolutions for 2021. Sure, some of us may have to resolve to put away the pajama bottoms for good later this year, and others may resolve to recall where their desks are in the office. Beyond that, we’d like to suggest some …
Security on Internet of Things (IoT) devices saw a significant advance in December with the enactment of a federal law requiring improved security on the devices. The bipartisan legislation, sponsored by Reps. Robin Kelly, D-Ill., and Will Hurd, R-Texas, and Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Cory Gardner, R-Colo., requires that any IoT device purchased with …
12/22/202 UPDATE: The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published further guidance regarding the SolarWinds cyberattack. Aimed at federal agencies, this supplemental guidance nevertheless is helpful to other organizations that use SolarWinds’ Orion software. Under “Conditions for Reconnecting Unaffected Versions,” CISA says it is “still assessing whether it is appropriate to relax ED 21-01’s …
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