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PPC Strengthens Your Cyber Security with Vulnerability Scanning
Interested in strengthening your Cyber Security? YES?
How about strengthening security at no additional cost? Yes please?
PremierePC has now partnered with Intruder.io to provide External Vulnerability Scanning on your PremierePC owned Meraki Firewall at NO additional cost to you as a service plan client.
intruder.io is a $1958 value per year
Intruder.io helps organizations reduce cyber attack exposure by providing effortless cyber security. This solution uses the same engines as the gold standard for vulnerability scanning.
Hackers are constantly looking for security flaws they can use to compromise sensitive information or steal personal data for financial gain, or to cause havoc and disruption for businesses all over the globe. To do this, they make use of a wide range of tools and vulnerability scanners to automate their efforts and find new targets. So, external vulnerability scanning is an essential process of protecting your business, by finding your security weaknesses before the hackers do.
On average, 20 new vulnerabilities are discovered every day, many of which are in technologies which are designed to sit on your perimeter systems (those which are exposed to the internet). Intruder’s external vulnerability scanner allows you to neutralize threats to your business, by performing vulnerability scans that discover security holes in your most exposed systems.
Intruder’s external network vulnerability scanner checks your systems for vulnerabilities which include web-layer security problems (such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting), infrastructure weaknesses (such as remote code execution flaws), and other security misconfigurations (such as weak encryption configurations, and systems which are unnecessarily exposed).
Free 365 for 501(c)3 Clients
For service plan clients, PremierePC can help Nonprofit organizations get FREE and discounted Microsoft 365 Licenses. [Organizations must be a nonprofit or non-governmental organization with recognized legal status in their respective country (equal to 501(c)(3) status under the United States Internal Revenue Code).]
Microsoft 365 includes Office 365 and ensures an always up-to-date Windows operating system.
Share and collaborate with Microsoft 365: share, compose, edit, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets. Increase workplace efficiency with 365 collaboration tools.
Increase email and organization security when PremierePC Manages your 365.
We will review and layer on conditional access policies, preventing unauthorized access to your critical cloud systems.
Layering on 365 tenant branding gives your team a visual queue to identify a trusted 365 login portal.
Password rotation policies ensure complex, unique passwords are used and rotated every 90 days according to best security practices.
SPF / DKIM / DMARC will be validated to ensure your domain is using all possible methods to secure your online reputation.
Due to your organization’s non-profit status, you have 10 Business Premium licenses at no cost, and up to 300 Business Basic licenses at no cost.
Additional Premium licenses, over the 10 provided, will cost $5 each, as opposed to the market price of $20 each (will increase to $5.50 each in September 2022).
– Premium licenses include all cloud and desktop software, in addition to email. This also includes password writeback.
– Basic licenses include email only, with access to web and mobile apps.
PremierePC will hold your hand every step of the way, managing the process, migration, and transition, end to end.
First, register with TechSoup to verify eligibility.
Next, plan the migration with PPC to ensure a seamless transition, mitigate risk of loss of data, and ensure top security practices are in play.
Then, collaborate!
PremierePC will help answer questions, provide basic training, and ensure your team is maximizing their potential through technology. We provide regular 365 systems audits for our clients, making changes to bring your settings into alignment with industry best practices.
As the threat landscape changes, certain practices and polices need to evolve to keep pace.
With PremierePC on your side, we will take care of the heavy lifting, keeping your organization up-to-date and secure. Let’s maximize your potential, through technology.
Give us a call today to learn more!
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Is your VPN annoying you?
Sometimes layering on solutions and process to keep your data secure can add an extra few steps and annoy the end user.
We get it, we have the same MFA policy, password rotation policy, VPN requirements, etc. at PremierePC as you.
However, we know they are completely necessary to keep data safe and mitigate the ever present risk of the bad guys infiltrating your network.
PremierePC continues to research and evolve our cybersecurity approach, with the NIST Framework guiding us, while keeping the end user in mind.
Let’s talk VPNs.
To remind you about what a VPN is, you can read our blog post here: VPN? What’s that?
In short, a VPN, or virtual private network, gives online privacy and anonymity by creating a private network from a public internet connection.
Why invest in data privacy?
A new study reveals that 57% of SMBs believe they won’t be targeted by online criminals, but almost 20% experienced an attack in the past year. These data breaches are costing more than ever before, with an average cost of a data breach for small businesses at $108,000.
We know it’s pretty necessary to maintain security while you compute.
However, connecting to a VPN tends to add several steps, and often needs support after your password is changed, a bios update, etc.
Here’s the good news
If you are in our RaaS (Router as a Service) program, you have an Enterprise Class Cisco/Meraki device. We already know these are wonderful for enhancing network security for the SMB.
Cisco AnyConnect
Now included in this RaaS solution is the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client.
Essentially, a new way to connect to VPN at no additional cost.
Features and benefits
Access from anywhere
Give any user highly secure access to the enterprise network, from any device, at any time, in any location. AnyConnect can be used on a Windows or Mac machine as well as an iPhone or Android.
Greater visibility
Gain more insight into user and endpoint behavior with full visibility across the extended enterprise.
With AnyConnect you can defend more effectively and improve network operations.
Comprehensive protection
Defend against threats, no matter where they are.
Simplified management and usability
Provide a consistent user experience across devices, both on and off premises, without creating a headache for your employees.
Simplify management with a single agent.
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