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Spyware

What is Spyware? Spyware is software that enables a user to obtain covert information about someone’s computer activities by secretly transmitting data from their device. There are many types of spyware focused on monitoring different types of information, ranging from relatively innocent web browsing trackers used by advertisers to cyberattacker enterprises seeking credentials and passwords […]

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Best Practices for Account Protection

What are the Best Practices for Account Protection? Account management, authentication, and password management are essential activities to protect data security. Users interact with accounts through a myriad of activities and across many different types of devices, and complete account protection requires a close look at each of these relationships and interactions. Authentication is the […]

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Business Email Compromise Techniques

How do Cyberattackers Carry out BEC Schemes? Business email compromise (BEC) or email account compromise (EAC) is one of the most financially damaging online crimes, exploiting the fact that email is a common tool for conducting business, both personally and professionally.1 In a BEC scam, cyberattackers send out an email that appears to come from […]

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Backup & Disaster Recovery IT Security Outsourced IT

Managing Data Integrity

How Is Data Integrity Maintained? Data integrity refers to the overall completeness, accuracy, consistency, and reliability of data over its lifecycle. Protecting data integrity involves taking measures to protect data against improper maintenance, modification, or alteration to ensure data authenticity. Managing data integrity is important for ensuring searchability, traceability, connectivity, stability, reusability, and maintainability. If […]

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Security Operations Center

What is a Security Operations Center? A security operations center (SOC) is a centralized facility that houses an information security team that is responsible for continuously monitoring, analyzing, and improving an organization’s security posture. The goal of the SOC team is to prevent, detect, analyze, and respond to cybersecurity incidents, around the clock. SOC teams […]

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Document Scanning

Document Scanning Services Document scanning, or document imaging, is the process of capturing digital images of paper documents. These images are then transformed into a digital format using optical character recognition (OCR) conversion software, which scans document images in order to turn them into text documents, allowing them to be searchable by keywords. Your organization […]

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IT Security Outsourced IT

Strategic Account Managers and Cybersecurity

What are Strategic Account Managers? Strategic Account Managers (SAM) build and maintain strong relationships with key business clients. They regularly communicate with clients, resolve client queries, increase revenue by promoting product innovation, develop and maintain long-term relationships with clients, collaborate with the sales team to generate sales leads, represent the entire range of company products […]

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Legacy Data

What is Legacy Data? Legacy data is information stored in old or obsolete formats and/or computer systems, making it difficult to access or process. New digital technologies designed for mobile devices, cloud storage, and in-house databases are often incompatible with legacy databases, so it may be time to consider doing something about that. It will […]

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Application Security IT Security Websites

Open Redirects and Web Security

Redirects are HTTP response codes that send a user to a different URL than the one that was requested. Redirects can be used for many practical purposes and for normal operations, such as implementing a change in the structure of a website, passing a user to a different site, or for serving the same content […]

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Understaffed Cybersecurity Teams

If your organization is struggling to keep cybersecurity professionals on staff, you are not alone. According to reports from the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), the cybersecurity workforce is struggling to hire and retain qualified cybersecurity professionals1. Their latest survey report notes that sixty-three percent of respondents indicated that they have unfilled cybersecurity […]