July 2020

Engineers can live in a bubble, so sales quickly pointed out that there are people who have heard the terms but may not know much about them. This post isn’t intended to be a deep dive on any of these subjects, but it will serve to provide an introduction into each area of cybersecurity.Our goal is to arm you with enough knowledge so you will...

Ransomware attacks are more serious than the headlines would have you believe. For some, you’ve only read about ransomware attacks on the news. The headlines are alarming and raise the proper amount of concern. City of Baltimore, Target, Home Depot, Equifax, the list of organizations who have experienced a cyber-attack is long.Many organizations fail to take their security seriously. It is only after an attack, after...

2020 has been nothing short of unpredictable. For the first time in recent history, people’s New Years' resolutions were halted due to the Covid-19 shutdown. At least for people who hadn’t given up a week into the year.One thing we can all take away from the past 6 months is that what we were accustomed to in the past may not carry into the future....

A recent report published by cyber security firm Tessian, found that 52% of employees feel they can get away with riskier behavior while working from home. The study has some revealing trends that are a true indicator of the state of security with work from home employees. For example, the study highlights that work from home employees are willing to share confidential documents via email....

According to a recent study, more than half of work from home employees are putting their organizations at risks for a cybersecurity attack by being lax about security protocols.  With an increase of almost a third of the country working from home due to covid-19, the amount of risk for organizations to suffer an online attack is growing exponentially.  Analysis by researchers at a large cybersecurity company...

In a June 2020 research study, IBM found that while the majority of employees said they were confident in their company’s ability to keep information secure, many haven’t been trained on work from home policies. IBM surveyed over 2,000 US based remote workers and found that out of 93% who were confident, 53% were using their personal laptops to work while 45% have received no additional...