Posts by SynchroNet Team
How to Maintain Cybersecurity for Your Remote Workforce in 2020
It’s no secret in the industry that the more remote workers you have, the more vulnerabilities you open up in your business network. With the pandemic kicking the country in the teeth, having a workforce that works almost exclusively remotely is now a fact of life. This new normal is an old nightmare for IT…
Read MoreHow to Keep Your Remote Workers Secure (According to Federal Guidelines)
In late April, The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) branch of the Department of Homeland Security released a website to help companies protect their employees while working remotely. It includes teleworking best practices from both CISA and the NSA. Follow these steps to secure your company while your employees work from home. Install…
Read MoreHow to Protect Yourself from MFA Vulnerabilities
Security experts agree; there is a soaring rise in Multi-Factor Authentication (or MFA) vulnerability attacks. In the face of most offices now being forced to work remotely, concerns are growing about its reduced effectiveness in the face of staff absences. Let’s go over how Multi-Factor Authentication protects your data, what vulnerabilities we know of in…
Read MoreBest Cybersecurity Practices for Your Company
Best Cybersecurity Practices for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Small and medium businesses now share cybersecurity threats that large enterprises handle daily. Since far more people work from home, IT staff in enterprises of all sizes have to deal with more vulnerabilities than ever. As small and medium-sized businesses also have less of a cybersecurity budget…
Read MoreHow AI Can Help Your Company Avoid Cyber Threats
How AI and Machine Learning Can Thwart (or Assist in) Cyber Threats AI and machine learning tools are critical for handling today’s cybersecurity threats because AI and machine learning are now also in the hands of criminals. The threat of cybercriminals weaponizing AI and machine learning to boost and expand their attacks is all too…
Read MoreHow Human Perception Can Increase Security Risks
Perception Biases in Information Security Threats (and How to Mitigate Their Risks) The current situation with the pandemic presents both technological and human-factor challenges for security. To maintain both personal and organizational security, people must make realistic observations of security risks. Here are the different cognitive biases we make, how it affects information security, and…
Read MoreStay Cyber Safe When Working From Home
How to Keep Your Remote Workers Secure While Working From Home Security is the top concern of businesses all across the country, but many were struggling to get their security systems up to date before the pandemic hit. To make matters worse, while we intended a remote workforce to be a temporary solution, it has…
Read MoreQuick IT Strategies for Small Businesses
Without a smart IT plan in place, you’re flushing money down the toilet. However, there is a lot of information that you need to juggle to make sense of it all. Here are some steps you can take right now to help make some sense of your IT, so you can manage it and get…
Read MorePreparing for Natural Disasters with Your IT
How to Prepare Your Business for a Natural Catastrophe Ever since the coronavirus radically altered our way of life, we as a global community have had to deal with massive disruptions in our businesses. We have been feverishly seeking technological solutions to hold everything together. Unfortunately, this virus doesn’t pause every other disaster that we…
Read MoreHow to Efficiently Work from Home
How to Keep Your Network Safe While Working at Home Because of the pandemic, many companies need to work remotely. As a result, they are struggling to maintain business continuity and security. The need to migrate all office work to online platforms exposes businesses to more risks of cyberattacks. The tasks business owners must juggle…
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