Protecting Virtual Desktops Is Critical for Remote Employees
With more people working from home than ever before in history, virtual desktop infrastructures have arisen as a fast and cost-effective method to ensure that remote workers can access the applications they need from wherever they are. In fact, VDI use might soon increase, as Gartner recently found that 74 ... Read More
Why Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Is Riskier Than You Realize
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) felt like a lifeline at the start of the Coronavirus pandemic. As offices rushed to close down and companies scrambled to operate remotely, those with VDI found the process to be surprisingly seamless. People didn’t have to bring the office home with them or make do ... Read More
It’s Time to Re-Evaluate Your Ransomware Prevention Strategy
Increasing numbers of headline-grabbing ransomware attacks are a concerning trend. They also point to a strong possibility that many organizations are falling behind threat actors in the cybersecurity arms race. As they fail to reassess their approaches to cybersecurity, organizations open themselves up to attacks that can be devastating and, ... Read More
Counting the Cost of Endpoint Security Breaches
The economic impact of a successful breach is one of the easiest to quantify. It’s also increasing constantly, with analysts predicting the cost of cybercrime globally will exceed $6 trillion annually by 2021, a 100% increase from 2015. Much of this cybercrime is perpetrated on or through the endpoint, with ... Read More
Virtual Desktop Security Requires More than Antivirus
Virtual desktop security is always a critical topic when enterprises leverage virtual desktop infrastructures, or VDI, as part of their internal IT strategy. In recent months, however, VDIs have grown in importance as more people work from home; deploying virtual desktops is one way to ensure that remote employees are ... Read More
Malware Authors Playing on COVID-19 Fears to Achieve Their Goals
Malware authors worldwide have targeted the fear around COVID-19 as a way to further their goals. This isn’t really a new method of enticing people to download and run their malware; threat actors have always used disasters as a way to deliver their payloads. From that perspective, the COVID-19 pandemic ... Read More
Endpoint Security Is Harder than Ever
Protecting your organization from advanced threats has always been difficult. Adversaries innovate constantly, changing their attack vectors and finding new ways to infiltrate their target environment. The Trickbot trojan is one of the best examples; its authors have used news coverage from President Trump’s impeachment trial and the WSReset UAC ... Read More
Are Hotel Guests Safe From a Data Breach?
The 2018 Starwood Hotels breach is only the latest in a long line of high profile intrusions that hotels have faced. It’s notable primarily for how many customer records were exposed — 500 million worldwide according to parent company Marriott — and that the breach wasn’t discovered for four years ... Read More
Retailers Must Improve Cybersecurity This Holiday Season
Retailers aren’t the only ones who benefit from the holiday shopping season. Cyberattacks cost retailers more than $30 billion annually, and losses often mount during the highly profitable holiday season ... Read More

