cyber hygiene
What New Cybersecurity Legislation Doesn’t Include
Cybersecurity legislation needs to include ways to improve IT hygiene and visibility, the collective root of the cybersecurity problem Cybersecurity challenges aren’t slowing down. Government websites have been hacked and kicked offline ...
Businesses Underestimate COVID-19 Cybersecurity Risks
COVID-19 has been impacting the world for at least five months, and cybercriminals have not let up in their attempts to manipulate the crisis for their own gain. For example, in the ...
66 Percent of Consumers Recycle Their Account Passwords. Do You?
As the world becomes more digitally bound and workers adapt to new business models, our cyber habits should improve considerably. Unfortunately, this hasn’t been the case. The 2020 LastPass ‘Psychology of Passwords’ ...
Are We Giving Up Our Privacy?
Every so often a tool takes off that suddenly everyone is using to communicate—one day it’s Google Hangouts, the next it’s Slack. Right now, that tool is Zoom, even though Skype and ...
For Coronavirus, Take Care of Personal and Cyber Hygiene
The coronavirus (COVID-19) is continuing to impact the globe in an unprecedented fashion, shutting down schools, cities and even entire countries. The novelty of this situation is spreading fear and uncertainty worldwide, ...
Eight ways to improve cyber-hygiene in the enterprise
Good hygiene keeps you safe and healthy, as well as others around you. It’s the same with cyber-hygiene – the sets of practices that organizations are increasingly adopting in a structured way ...
10 Tenets for Cyber Resilience in a Digital World
Companies are facing increased and complex cybersecurity challenges in today’s interconnected digital economy. The cyber threats have become more sophisticated and may harm a company via innovative new forms of malware, through ...
Cyber Hygiene: Boosting Your Security Posture
It has been two years since Equifax announced a data breach that exposed the financial records of more than 147 million people, and the news continues to dominate the headlines. After two ...
Clean IT Up: Cyber Hygiene Controls Tips
October is national cybersecurity awareness month, and with the recent hacks at Door Dash, the discovery of a large-scale iOS hacking campaign, and a database containing 419 million phone numbers associated with ...
Why You Need a Cyber Hygiene Program: Q&A with Alert Logic’s Jack Danahy
In the aftermath of a data breach, organizations must answer many questions. But what often isn’t asked is how effective or efficient its cyber hygiene program is, and what role it will ...