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How Businesses Can Protect Themselves From Hackers
Given the numerous products and promises of the information technology (IT) security industry and the frequent news stories about data breaches, it’s not surprising that business owners don’t know where to start when it comes to protecting themselves from information-highway robbers. Some wonder why they should spend money on sophisticated security systems when hackers can get around them.
Josh Dennis, CIO of Wired Nation, honored as “Titan of IT”
Congratulations to Josh Dennis, CIO of Wired Nation, for being named one of New Mexico’s “Titans of IT”. Mr. Dennis was nominated to the “Consultant” category.
IT Security Summit New Mexico (ITSSNM) – “The Perfect Storm” featured in the Santa Fe New Mexican
Read this recent article on the IT Security Summit, taking place tomorrow at the Santa Fe Community College.
IT Security Summit New Mexico
Money, skills, and patience.
Cybercriminals have an abundance of all of these factors. There is little debate that your organization, large or small, private industry or federal government, has and will continue to be targeted by cybercriminal activity.
As opportunities to reduce costs and improve productivity with virtualization and a variety of mobile devices present new challenges, the information technology …
Hackers Shift Attacks to Small Firms
Why hack me?
When we are doing post-breach cleanup for new clients, many of them ask us the question, “Our business is not that interesting, so why would anyone hack me?” They may be a restaurant chain who thinks the only items of value they have are recipes that aren’t very hard to reproduce, or they could be a nonprofit …
Maintaining Your Passwords
Password Security
People choose bad passwords. It’s not that they are bad people, they are busy and don’t know better. At Netflix, they will use netflix123 and move quickly on to their goal: watching movies. Or they will use the same password at Facebook, Amazon, their bank, and mysecuritystinks.com. When the latter site gets hacked, the hacker has …
How Businesses Can Protect Themselves From Hackers
Given the numerous products and promises of the information technology (IT) security industry and the frequent news stories about data breaches, it’s not surprising that business owners don’t know where to start when it comes to protecting themselves from information-highway robbers. Some wonder why they should spend money on sophisticated security systems when hackers can get around them.
What is IPv6 and Why Should You Care?
You mean we are running out of IP addresses on the Internet??? Yes, it’s true, sort of. IP addresses are used by computers to find each other on the Internet.
Each device has its own IP address (roughly, because some devices hide behind other devices such as a firewall, which uses its IP address for those devices).
We have been …