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Webinar: Password Cracking 101

By: C Spire on Sep 7, 2018 8:34:48 AM

Criminal hackers aren’t nearly as focused on your business' administrative accounts as they are individual employee accounts. Why? Because admin accounts rarely have direct access to highly valuable information like social security numbers, protected health information, etc.

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Topics: hacking, Cybersecurity

Cost of a Data Breach Reaches Record High

By: C Spire on Aug 29, 2018 11:00:29 AM

A recent global study by the Ponemon Institute finds that the financial damage caused by a data breach has risen by 6.4 percent in the last year and now costs companies an average of $3.86 million each.

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Topics: Industry News, Cybersecurity

Staffing Recruiter Says Organizations Should Outsource Their IT

By: Craig Cooper on Aug 28, 2018 6:57:00 AM

Late one afternoon, I received a call from a VP of IT letting me know that three out of five employees had turned in their two-week notices, all within a few days of each another.  This IT leader, immediately thrust into a challenging situation, was looking to me for help. 

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Topics: IT Support, tech

Utilize Cloud Tools to Protect Corporate Identities

By: Jordan Helton on Aug 22, 2018 1:31:47 PM

Corporate Identities - that is, usernames and passwords - continue to be one of the main points of attack against businesses. For a reason! Many points of authentication are internet-facing humans who generally do a poor job of choosing passwords and can be easily manipulated into giving out their credentials.

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Topics: public cloud, Cybersecurity

Debunking Public Cloud’s Supposed Risks

By: Christina Southern on Aug 20, 2018 1:02:00 PM

Ninety percent of Fortune 500 businesses run on the Microsoft Cloud. Yet research shows that  business and IT professionals are still leery of moving their infrastructure to Public Cloud. “There’s never been a more versatile, secure, and highly visible Cloud option on the market,” said Cloud Solutions Engineer Jordan Helton. “Unfortunately, the journey to Public Cloud has been difficult for some because they didn’t have the right partner helping them through the process. And others are intimidated by Public Cloud giants like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.”

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Topics: public cloud, Cloud services

Work-Arounds are Jeopardizing Your Patient Data

By: Christina Southern on Aug 20, 2018 6:32:00 AM

One of the greatest challenges healthcare organizations face today is clinical application interoperability – the communication between computer systems, applications, or software to allow them to work in conjunction with one another.

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Topics: HIPAA, Healthcare

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