Posts by SynchroNet Team
How to Secure Your Router (Updated for 2020)
As we isolate ourselves during the pandemic, we need to access our data remotely and securely. Many workers started using VPNs to protect their connections, but recently there have been security incidents where running a VPN wasn’t enough. Using a VPN to access your network is a great start, but you need to consider other…
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 MoreWordPress Plugin Security Tips to Keep Your Site Secure
The problem isn’t with the core WordPress engine, but with the plugins people install on their sites. WordPress engineers are working with plugin vendors to patch the leaks, but the responsibility ultimately lies with a constellation of independent development companies. To make matters worse, many WordPress users don’t update their plugins as often as they…
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 MoreHow to Work from Home and Get More Done
No one could see this coming. You may be one of the millions of people being ordered by their employers and governments to stay home and work from there if possible. For many of us, working from home feels like a massive shift. Your home is a place to relax, and you need to find…
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