by Jeff Hughes | Mar 24, 2021 | News, Security
What is Ransomware? Believed to have first been identified in 2013, ransomware is still floating around the web and is more dangerous than ever. According to cyber security experts, ransomware attacks increased globally by 40% to 199.7 million cases at the end of last...
by Jeff Hughes | Mar 23, 2021 | Security
What is Multi-Factor Authentication? Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is a supplemental authentication method that asks users to provide a second (or more) form of identification in order to sign into an online service, application, or system. Instead of asking only...
by Jeff Hughes | Mar 5, 2021 | Managed Services, Security
2020 was a mess. It was a big year for security breaches. Big players like Microsoft, GE, Facebook, Instagram, Staples, Spotify, FireEye, and Solarwinds (among many others) were compromised, exposing some 7.9 billion data records and putting close to 300 million...
by Jeff Hughes | Feb 5, 2021 | Managed Services, Security
Everyone hates passwords. Users hate changing and remembering them. Administrators hate hounding people to update their passwords to something secure. Nobody likes getting locked out of their account, and no one enjoys going through the “forgot my...
