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Is Your Business Making These Critical CyberSecurity Mistakes?
Let’s look at five common mistakes made frequently by businesses like yours.
Many SMBs believe they are too small to be a target.
FALSE. Hackers are not only interested in large organizations. The bad guys know that large companies have more resources, and a more robust cybersecurity stack. Makes sense to target a smaller firm that still handles sensitive payment and bank data for their clients.
Sharing passwords doesn’t seem like big of a deal, right?
They’re easier to remember, and surely you can trust your coworkers. Think again. There are many issues with this one. Sharing passwords creates giant holes in your security, makes accountability near impossible, you lose control over where your password is stored or used, etc.
Ever click “later” on suggested software updates?
Ever click “later” 12 times on that same update? You’re not alone. Again, seems like a small decision. However, think about this. Any time there is a security hole found in software, the developer seeks to correct it. They may come out with an update. With that update, they report the security hole they found. Enter hackers; anyone using a previous version of the software now has a known security hole in their system.
Free Antivirus: you may be thinking, “What a gift! This is surely just as good as any other antivirus.”
Let’s look at the facts. Free antivirus software offers low detection rates, collects data about your usage, may issue false positives to appear useful, carries bloatware and intrusive ads that slow computers, and suffers from data breaches making them counterproductive.
How often do you train your employees on cyber security?
Do you have a training protocol or standard operating procedures around this? Employee negligence is the number one cause of data breaches. Some of these actions seem harmless, like connecting to Wi-Fi at Starbucks and checking your email. Reusing your work password, or a variant of that password, across multiple accounts. Some actions could be as simple as clicking a link in an email from a seemingly safe sender. Hackers will even go so far as to drop a USB drive containing malware into the parking lot or hallway of your business; do you feel confident that none of your employees would pick that up and plug it in?
These are just five, in a list of many, common mistakes made by SMBs that leave them open to cyber security attacks.
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OFFICE CLOSING: HOLIDAY HOURS
Holidays and Cybercrime
Full of fun, family, friends, food.. and, unfortunately, increased cybercrime activity.
The holidays are a key time for cybercrime, exploiting unaware and uneducated internet users. Attackers can defraud and monetize their actions with little effort.
For example, spoofed email addresses can be used to gain access to supplier or customer login. Phony websites can be made to look exactly like those of major retailers. Public Wi-Fi is another hunting ground for attackers. All of these can be used to capture and record credit card information.
Never reuse passwords or even similar versions of passwords. Use strong passwords, mixing numbers, special characters, and letters.
Verify online reputation of the e-commerce sites you visit.
Avoid shopping online or accessing bank account information on anything other than secured, private Wi-Fi connections.
Never click on suspicious links, open unknown files, or download items from unknown sources.
Look at the URL of sites you visit, cybercriminals may create a site with just one character difference in the URL to gain access to your data.
Check in to your bank accounts and track all purchases. Report any fraud immediately.
Keep all operating systems and applications up to date, ensure you have security measures in place.
Educate! Stay up to date on cybersecurity trends and solutions.
Office Closing: Thanksgiving
Outlook Redesigns Ribbon Toolbar
Outlook recently rolled out a new and improved ribbon in the web version. You can now toggle between simplified and classic ribbons.
The Outlook Ribbon contains all of the options and commands that you use to accomplish tasks in Outlook. For example, you can click buttons on the ribbon to create a new email, delete emails, open a new meeting request, or assign a category to an item. However, the classic Ribbon does take up a lot of space on your screen.
Within the simplified ribbon, there are two tabs available: Home and View; home being the default tab and view containing options to customize the account.
Under the Home tab, the Simplified Ribbon shows your most used commands in a single line. However, with less available space for commands, not all of the buttons you’re used to seeing will fit.
You can also customize the buttons appearance on the Ribbon toolbar. There is a 3-dots menu button available on the Ribbon toolbar. When we click on the 3-dots button, we get an option “Customize” which allows us to add/remove buttons on the Ribbon toolbar.
To switch back and forth between the Simplified Ribbon and the classic ribbon, click the downward pointing caret in the lower right corner of the ribbon to choose which ribbon you’d like to display.