Technology can be a game-changer for growing businesses. From speeding up workflows to helping teams collaborate more efficiently, the right tools can drive great improvements. But not every tech investment pays off, especially when businesses jump in without a clear plan.
We give our IT teams the keys to the kingdom to keep operations running. Yet, that access creates a massive blind spot. Recent trends show disgruntled tech workers bypassing the very security measures they helped build. Trust is necessary for business, but blind faith in your technical staff leaves your company wide open to attack.
Between holiday travel, borrowed laptops, and coffee-shop Wi-Fi, it’s easy to leave a tab open and dash off to the next festivity. But staying signed in to sensitive sites is like leaving gifts on the porch—someone else may walk off with them. Logging out properly keeps your accounts (and your business) off a cybercriminal’s wish list.
’Tis the season for sharing—just not company data via personal file-sync apps. If employees use personal Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, or similar accounts, your information can spread like holiday cookies at a potluck: far and wide, with no central oversight of who got what—or whether they still have it.
’Tis the season for giving—not for giving attackers easy openings. Every day, threat actors hunt for fresh holes in widely used software (Microsoft 365, Chrome, Adobe, QuickBooks, Zoom, your OS, even router firmware). When vendors release a patch, the vulnerability becomes known, and cybercriminals rush to weaponize it against anyone who delays updating.
The holiday season is all about joy, generosity, and celebration. But while your office is hanging decorations and exchanging Secret Santa gifts, cybercriminals may be slipping something far less festive into your business: Shadow IT.
Shadow IT refers to unauthorized software or services that employees download without IT approval.
As year-end projects pile up and holiday mailers fly, your copier/MFP (multifunction printer) can quietly become the Grinch of your network. These devices often store images of everything they scan/print, keep address books (sometimes with saved passwords), and ship with unchanged default admin credentials—a perfect gift for attackers.
With cyberthreats escalating and major breaches costing billions, many organizations are embracing the zero trust approach, a holistic methodology that assumes compromise and requires constant verification across all devices and applications. This guide lists the practical, actionable steps security leaders must take to move beyond initial pilots and effectively implement a comprehensive zero trust architecture that effectively counters modern threats.
Tis the season for traffic spikes, gift guides, and last-minute promos—the worst time for your website to go down. Many businesses back up servers and shared files but forget their website. Most sites live on third-party platforms (WordPress hosts, Amazon, Squarespace, etc.
The holidays are full of repeats—movie marathons, favorite recipes, that same carol on loop. But there’s one thing you should never repeat: your passwords. Reusing a single “good” password across multiple sites is like hanging one key on the office tree and handing out copies to everyone at the party.