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Security

⟶ Avoiding Ransomware Attacks

Ransomware is a type of malware that prevents or limits users from accessing their system, either by locking the system's screen or by locking the users' files until a ransom is paid.

⟶ Protecting your Data

Your data is your business’s most valuable asset. This data includes your customer information, credit card numbers, sales, marketing materials, financial data, accounting software, proprietary formulas, processes, and more.  Ensuring your data is properly protected with safeguards including: managed firewall, daily backup, multi-factor authentication, password policy framework and employee security training are critical to ensure your network is secure.

⟶ Protecting your Customer’s Data

It’s important to remember that the data you’re storing isn’t just your own. If you are a law firm or medical office, you are storing client or patient data, for example, social security numbers, business transactions, financials, and medical history.  Protecting this information from a data breach is your responsibility, including properly backing up the data in case of failure. More importantly, if you discover your data has been compromised, you are responsible for notifying your customer.  Potentially you could also be financially liable for any damages incurred. This is a significant business risk and can be mitigated by properly securing your network.

⟶ Industry Regulatory Compliance

Depending on your type of business, it’s possible that you need to comply with specific regulations. For example, medical offices are required to adhere to HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health) regulations.  Financial professionals and private equity firms fall under SEC (Securities & Exchange Commission) and FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ).  Businesses interacting with the State and federal government follow guidelines for CMMC (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification) compliance.  In summary, compliance is establishing and implementing best practices ensuring the safety of your data.

  • Cyber Security Training & Compliance

    Getting a handle on employees’ security awareness and competency is a critical first step in improving a company’s security posture. With end-users being one of the most frequent targets for vulnerabilities, ensuring staff recognizes the various strategies threat actors employ is crucial to the operations of any business. Security awareness training should be required and should include any necessary industry compliance, such as PCI-DSS or HIPPA.

  • Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS)

    Occur when a massive influx of web traffic from a multitude of IP addresses flood a network resource. As a result, the impacted system is overwhelmed and shut down, preventing legitimate requests from being fulfilled.

  • Endpoint Security

    Endpoint security refers to a methodology of protecting the corporate network when accessed via any device — from laptop to desktop, printers, and mobile phones. Each device with a remote connection to a network creates a potential entry point for security threats.

  • Identity Access Management

    Through identity access management (IAM) IT managers and directors can manage the role of users to better protect corporate assets and segment their teams. It provides all the necessary tools and controls to manage users' identities, assignments, privileges and authentication.

  • Managed Detection & Response

    Commonly known as Security Operations Center or SOCaaS removes the burden of IT teams having to actively scan 24x7x365 for threats that may exist in their network. An enhanced MDR uses a combination of advanced technologies and human expertise to identify security threats and alert the organization. With MDR, a team of trained professionals look for and then identify security threats and then remove them from the network. They also look to plug holes and prevent them from reoccurring.

  • Managed Firewall

    With so many cyber security threats it makes sense to invest in a managed firewall solution. Managed firewall includes: packet filtering, network address translation, URL blocking, virtual private networks, access control lists, stateful traffic inspection & VPN capabilities.

  • Penetration Testing & Vulnerability Scans

    Typically refers to a series of comprehensive tests that are run on an existing IT infrastructure that attempts to identify and uncover security vulnerabilities that can be exploited. The testing is considered ethical hacking. Once the testing is complete a series of countermeasures and recommendations are provided to the organization to remedy.

  • Security Information & Events Monitoring (SIEM) & Advanced Threat Protection

    SEIM is a security-focused technology that combines security information management and security events management into one system to collect and analyze alerts and data from across the network environment. Multiple data sources can include network devices like routers, firewalls, servers, endpoint solutions, and much more.