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Facts on cybersecurity Canadian businesses continue to face financial loss due to an increase in cybersecurity incidents. Small businesses are vulnerable to cyber threats with equal measures as large enterprises. Attackers are targeting thousands of small businesses in Canada at once. Statistical Canada survey indicates that small businesses have less awareness and fewer technological defenses. Hackers have identified …

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You may be tech-savvy, relying on virtual assistance for what you need, and well-prepared to protect your valuable devices from all forms of malware using the best cyber security practices. Unfortunately, not all Canadians are as aware of scamming, social engineering, and other malicious activities that lie in wait. This year, thanks to the pandemic, Canadians, like …

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Insider threats and counter-intelligence sound like topics of an episode of “NCIS,” but both items prove important for every company and organization. Whether you own a small business or major corporation, you need to implement protections against insider threats and a plan for how to deal with them. A 2012 survey uncovered that more than …

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In the world of Cybersecurity, it has always been the biggest targets, like governments and large corporations, and the smallest targets, like the unprotected consumer, who have been most at risk. However, as bad actors on the Internet gain computing power and better attack methods, better-protected consumers and small businesses have increasingly fallen under the …

Your Small Business Cybersecurity Checklist: How to Survive 2020 & 2021 Read More »

With today’s threats to cyber security constantly growing, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are rapidly becoming a key method of securing the activity, sensitive data, and location of all kinds of users. VPN clients include large, small, and medium sized businesses- but their largest ongoing area of growth is with the private consumer. In the current …

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Thirty years ago the most one had to remember for a password was a school locker combination or an office push pad lock for a door. Today, passwords are needed for just about everything. Any service on the Internet or mobile app needs its own password, and in the business world they are ubiquitous as …

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Employees are the main assets and lifeblood of any successful company. That is why it is essential to invest in employee education. With the GDPR advent, data protection training has become obligatory and immensely useful. If your employees don’t know how to handle sensitive personal data at your company, you will need to implement a …

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As businesses worldwide continue to embrace digitization, the number of hacking incidents is rising. If your organization doesn’t have the tools required to protect itself from malware attacks, you are at risk of losing sensitive information and tarnishing your reputation. What is Malware? Malware is a combination of the words, malicious and software. It refers …

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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a subdivision of the Department of Homeland Security, has detected a criticism for Microsoft Netlogin Remote Protocol (MS-RPC). The government cybersecurity organization has also issued an emergency directive for IT personnel employed by the federal government in response to the vulnerability. The problem has been classified as severe, …

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IT security is must for any business or organization operating with an open line on the Internet, which is practically a given with today’s communications. However, the demands of modern digital security threats and cyber attack are not easy to keep up with, and not every organization has staff or internal resources to keep up …

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