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The New Generation of Criminals
You turn on your computer and find a notice that all your files have been encrypted and will be destroyed unless you pay a ransom. There’s a clock ticking down the seconds. Your files are being held hostage and so is your organization. Paying ransom is the least of your worries; the biggest cost to your business will be the…
Read MoreTop Attacks and Breaches for the week of March 14th to 20th
One of Brite’s partners, Check Point, complied the a list of Top Attacks and Breaches that took place last week, March 14th – 20th, 2016. Cyber threats transform at a rapid rate. Yesterday’s technology may not protect against tomorrow’s attacks. Fortunately, Brite has many partners that are continuously developing new technologies to protect your data. Click…
Read MoreRochester Security Summit: Jonathan Borgesen
The countdown is on! The Rochester Security Summit is 26 days away, and this is the first edition of Rochester Security Summit Thursday. Every Thursday until the event, we’d like to give you a bit of what conference attendees will experience. First, let’s talk about the theme of this year’s event. The theme of this…
Read MoreMistakes Happen: Sharing Sensitive Data With the Wrong Person
We’ve all made the mistake. The dreaded “Reply All” button response that was meant for one person but sent to the entire office. Mistakes happen and a small one like that is nothing to fret over, other than the potential awkward conversation in the hallway. Of course, there’s always the bigger mistake. Sharing sensitive company…
Read MoreWhy Fixing Security Vulnerabilities Sooner, Rather Than Later, is Important
Getting your education takes a long time. Securing a home loan tends to be a longer process, as well. Both make sense and are commonly referred to as “the way it is.” What doesn’t make sense is the information that was revealed in NopSec’s 2015 State of Vulnerability Risk Management. Summed up: Remediation issues are…
Read More5 Reasons Switching to a Managed Services Provider Makes Sense
You’re an advertising agency. You’re a manufacturing plant. You’re a hospital. Every day you go to work, you want to do work in the fields you’ve selected because that’s what you’re passionate about and it’s what you’re good at. For this reason, many companies are moving away from simple service level agreements to deeper-level, more…
Read MoreSecuring Privileged Accounts
When managing privileged accounts on your network there is a particular feeling that you want to avoid. You, and your information security team, should never feel like a game of hide-and-seek has broken out. On average, there are three to four times more shared and privileged accounts than employees in an organization. So while you’re…
Read More2014’s Worst Passwords Will Make You Cringe
Homer Simpson’s catch phrase is one, simple word: D’oh! And no better word could sum up how we’re feeling after reading SplashData’s annual list of worst passwords of the year. In fact, if people were smart enough to use D’oh as their password, it’d be more secure than about 99% of 2014’s worst. Most alarming,…
Read MoreCombating BYOD Security Issues
Today, mobile devices come in all shapes and sizes, from smartphones, notebooks and tablets, to the new Smartwatch. While this mobility boosts efficiency through “anywhere, anytime access” to business systems it creates an equal amount of uncertainty and vulnerability for the organization. With 81% of employees currently using personal devices at work, security managers have…
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