How To Have A Safe Password: 5 Tips
You don’t need to be involved in the SolarWinds and Russian hacking incident to need to know how to have a safe password. Every person and every business needs to understand password security, know how to make the best possible and strongest password AND how to remember where/what they are. There is nothing worse than […]
How Well Did Your BCDR Work During Pandemic?
As part of our work with clients, we urge them to implement a business continuity and disaster recovery plan (BCDR). These plans help a company quickly adapt to an emergency situation or a fast-changing work environment. This definitely occurred during the coronavirus pandemic and an almost immediate switch to a work-from-home culture. Whether you had […]
How To Protect Yourself From Holiday Hackers: 8 Tips
Cyber attacks are not a holiday-only disturbance to your online identity and overall feeling of well-being. How to protect yourself from holiday hackers is something we talk with our clients about all the time. Believe us, when you’ve suffered identity theft or a ransomware attack – you feel violated. Some people liken it to having […]
5 Ways To Protect Identity This Shopping Season
We have put together this list of 5 ways to protect identity this shopping season. Don’t let the Grinch aka a cyber hacker ruin your holiday season. 2020 has done enough to all of us in terms of canceling trips, quarantining, losing jobs and suffering ransomware and phishing attacks at work that you don’t want […]
Hacks Hit 65 Percent Of Financial Institutions
Covid-19 and the pandemic has lead to more people working from home. It’s a great thing for the business owner and the employee who were able to continue working and serving customers during the coronavirus pandemic BUT that work from home culture has caused an increase in cyberattacks and hacks. Why have cyberattacks increased? Because […]
Social Media Safety: 11 Ways To Protect Yourself
Did you know more than 70% of all Americans use social media? Younger demographics use it more than 90%! According to Pew Reports, we are on social media and at WareGeeks Solutions, believe a majority of social media-using Americans are putting their privacy at risk. When you sign up for any of the social media […]
How To Prevent Accidental Data Leaks or Data Breaches. Stay Aware, Stay Safe. 0
How To Prevent Accidental Data Leaks or Data Breaches. In many cases, it is because of an error, a breach in company data protocol that opens the doors. In other words, your company could be hacked and it could be because someone in your company didn’t follow the procedures you had in place. Ask yourself […]
7 Ways To Combat Pandemic Fatigue
The pandemic shutdown, which has lingered much longer than anyone likely anticipated is leading to fatigue and with some remote employees becoming lax with following security protocols. When it comes to business disruptions, the coronavirus pandemic is one that has impacted almost everyone, across the country. The COVID-19 pandemic is more widespread than most business […]
What Is Vishing? 5 Ways To Beat It
You’ve heard of phishing, right? Phishing is a way a cyber hacker can get into the company network by sending a malicious email. These phishing emails look legitimate to your employees and they believe it’s from someone within the company asking them to click a link. The employee clicks the link and viola – a […]
How Law Firms Manage Crisis: 5 Exclusive Steps
Crisis management is crucial for business viability, cybersecurity and data protection. When your law firm is confronted with an unexpected business interruption – Coronavirus pandemic, for example – how quickly were you able to react and pivot to the changes that came about almost without warning? Did your law firm confront the business disruption methodically, […]