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Cyber Attack Article Round Up

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preventing a cyber attackCyber attacks are not a business threat that should be taken lightly. The risks that data breaches pose are just as large for small businesses as they are for big businesses. Hackers don’t ignore a company because it doesn’t have the brand recognition that Coca-Cola has.

Sometimes smaller companies have less security, which makes it easier for hackers to obtain confidential information. Because every company has some privileged information, we’ve created a handy list of helpful articles on cyber attacks so you can learn more about them and how to prevent them.  [Read more…]

Why Small Businesses Should Fear Data Breaches As Much as Big Companies [Infographic]

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Being the owner of a hosting company, I see thousands of data breach attempts on a weekly basis. The attempts are crafty, pointed, and have one purpose–breaching our servers. Even though we’ve invested exorbitant amounts of time and money to protect our infrastructure, it still makes us nervous.

You too should be nervous, as the target of a potential data breach is small to medium business infrastructure as much as it is that of a large corporation.

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How To Keep Your Business IT System Secure – Part II

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Yesterday we introduced four ways to keep your business IT system secure from Reuters and Entreprenuer.com: password protect your systems, design systems that are safe from abuse, conduct pre-employment screening and background checks, and continually train your employees. Today we discuss the last five ways to ward off unwelcome IT problems. [Read more…]

How To Keep Your Business IT System Secure–Part I

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Over the past several months we have published a number of articles dealing with cyber warfare and related Internet phishing/hacking attacks. In those pieces we reminded small- and medium-business owners that they are not immune from cyber attacks even though many consider themselves safe due to their size. We have also examined the fact that your very own website could be under attack and you might not even be aware of it! We also gave you some tips on how to ensure that many of the most basic tenants of IT procedures are followed.

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Password Policies – Cyber Protection You Can Implement Today

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In recent months, the media has been bombarding us with stories related to hackers and cyber security. With large corporations like Sony having been the victims of hacker attacks, and MasterCard having been shut down by denial of service attacks, it can leave the small- to medium-size business owner feeling a little overwhelmed.

Still, one basic security measure many overlook is a simple focus on their individual and company password policies.

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