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The Complete Guide to CMMC Compliance Companies face a lot of responsibilities when working with data. Tracking use, managing backups, and ensuring integrity are all essential for controlling data flows and maintaining best practices. Any companies that want to keep data secure generally follow specific guidelines to ensure they don’t make common mistakes or fail to understand important procedures. When it ...

Social Engineering Attacks: 5 Things You Need to Know Modern businesses must go to great lengths to protect themselves against the ongoing dangers presented by cybercrime. The wrong software stack, employee, or website can leave networks and systems vulnerable, compromising the organization’s capacity to deliver service. Understanding potential threats and how to mitigate them is essential for creating resilient business models. ...

For many businesses, digital information represents core assets that they rely on for keeping track of users, providing services, and fixing problems. However, these assets can be easily compromised by simple user error or targeted malicious activities. Backups offer IT directors and cybersecurity professionals a means to deal with data loss before it’s too late. According to a University of Maryland ...

A data breach is unauthorized access or release of sensitive information. This can be anything from a customer's bank records to credit or debit card details, social security numbers, or passwords. Any information shared with a company and used for business purposes can be vulnerable to a data breach. Why Should Businesses Care About Data Breaches? Data breaches are an ever-present ...

Since the Russo-Ukrainian conflict was initiated by Vladimir Putin on February 24th, 2022, the world has been watching. While much of the news coverage has centered around the physical battles being fought on the streets of Ukraine, cyberattacks have been a major component of Russia’s offensive initiative. Just weeks before Russia attacked Ukraine unprovoked, threat actors surreptitiously deployed several different ...

Cybersecurity Risk Management — Your Questions Answered The digital world expands every day, and the power technology holds over the workplace grows with it. As technology permeates professional life and digital storage becomes the norm, the impact of cyber threats grows ever-greater. Without proper precautions, your organization faces great risk. How Does a Cybersecurity Risk Management Service Benefit Me? Even in ...

Cybersecurity for Financial Services: Best Practices The financial services industry is highly regulated and highly susceptible to cyberattacks by threat actors. Data breaches have grown larger, more frequent, and more expensive over time and the financial services industry has struggled to keep up with attacks. Financial institutions can spend an enormous amount of their revenue on their IT infrastructure. According ...

The NIST Incident Response Plan What happens if you implement a cybersecurity framework and still have an incident or a breach? Unfortunately in cybersecurity, you can never be 100% secure. You will always be at some risk of an incident. Even the most sophisticated cybersecurity systems in the world carry a degree of risk. However, an incident doesn’t have to be ...

Ransomware is becoming a more serious threat to companies all around the world. This guide from Touchstone Security will define what ransomware is and why the proliferation of ransomware is placing many businesses at risk. This increased risk isn't due to an especially dangerous modern variant of coding. Instead, it’s because ransomware is now much more available than it has ever ...