We are starting out this Webinar series with the very first item we need to be on top of! If you think your regular anti-spam and anti-virus programs are enough to protect your email, you may be in for a huge surprise! Regular Anti-Spam, Anti-Phishing and Anti-Virus are definitely no longer enough! Since 94% of…
Moving to the network edge, the next line of defense is your firewall. Traditional firewall is no longer enough. Next Generation Firewall is where it is and it truly is a must! It provides a Unified Threat Management Stack. It inspects traffic that goes through it, inspects for malware, inspects websites, protects against vulnerability attacks…
With many of us working away from our offices, or working on remote systems, Multi Factor Authentication and Two Factor Authentication transcends locations. It protects your users log in to your digital assets. Why is this important? You want to protect your digital assets, specifically cloud assets, Office 365, Salesforce, Oracle, SAP or even your…
Traditional or legacy anti malware is now outdated. Malware utilizes signatures to stop threats. But now malware can change its own code and therefore traditional anti malware is no longer effective. The next generation of anti-malware is called Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR). The endpoint detection portion is powered by an AI engine which will…
People are not just working from where we thought they would, not anymore. They have become very mobile. This manifested itself in more locations accessing VPNs, SaaS applications and VDI gateways. There are also many more devices accessing our systems. Who do we trust and do we trust where they are from? This is where…
We all do updates on our computers and servers. But how often are you updating them and are you prioritizing the correct security update at the right time? Are you updating everything else as well? Everything that has an IP address, software or an operating system needs to be patched. The number of incidents exploiting…
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Is your anti-virus good enough to protect your organization against modern cyber threats? Security practitioners believe that legacy anti-virus only catches about 43% of today’s attacks, while 76% of endpoint attacks come from zero-day or unknown threats. Join us for a closer look at VMware Carbon Black, a next-generation anti-virus and EDR to detect, protect,…
When we think about disaster recovery we think of backups. The problem with backups is that we manage them by exception. So as long as we don’t get an error, we assume that everything is working fine. And that is what the bad guys are counting on. That you are not looking. It is important…
Just like fire drills, having an incidence response is key to prepare for cyber-attacks. They will happen. It is not a matter of if but when. Depending on the size of your organization, the plan does not have to be overly complex. Any plan is a great starting point. And like any plan, make sure…
Even if you have an unlimited IT budget, it is estimated that IT can only protect an organization from 80 to 85% of the threats out there. The rest needs to be filled in by the actual end users. Behavior is the key to protecting the organization as fully as possible. But how do we…
Average ransom ware demand is over $200,000 and the average cost of a data breach is $6.35 M. Statistics show us that ¾ of victims pay the ransom. But what the statistics don’t show us is how many businesses go OUT of business as they cannot afford the ransom or the breach. In addition, they…