Cybersecurity Threats 2021 Today, organizations are faced with incredible challenges when it comes to protecting their sensitive information and intellectual property. Through data breaches and other malicious activity, organizations are losing massive amounts of sensitive data and suffering financial losses on the order of billions globally. Even with the advanced data security measures and data protection strategies that we have access ...
Cloud Cybersecurity The migration into public cloud computing is on the rise. Over the past five to ten years, the public cloud has grown on average around 20% year-over-year with a projected growth of 27 percent in 2021. This incredible growth has proven that the public cloud is going to continue to be a major component of today’s businesses. And the value ...
What is a Risk Matrix? A risk matrix is a risk assessment tool that is used to visualize the likelihood of a risk occurring. You can think of a risk matrix like the upper right quadrant of a cartesian graph. The x-axis of a risk matrix denotes the likelihood of an occurrence taking place, and the y-axis would denote the ...
Cybersecurity Tools Cybersecurity tools are software solutions, appliance-based solutions, and security strategies that together create an integrated, cohesive data security posture. The right tools can limit cybercrime, the risk of data breaches, malicious user activity, malware, ransomware, phishing attacks, and other modernized threats to today’s technology-focused organizations. Why Do Organizations Need Cybersecurity Tools? Today, modern business is becoming more technology-dependent ...
Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling To scale up or scale out? That is the question. When your business is growing and your applications need to expand accessibility, power, and performance, you have two options to meet the challenge — horizontal scaling and vertical scaling. This Touchstone blog will help you answer that question: “Should my business scale up or scale out?” What ...
The Cost of a Cloud Migration Many businesses are evaluating the advantages of moving on-premises IT infrastructure to cloud computing, from startups to seasoned corporations and small to large-scale organizations. Many of our clients have discovered that making this change has a variety of advantages, including increased flexibility, scalability, and cost savings. It's critical to understand both the possible costs and ...
Cybersecurity risk management is a critical topic for small businesses, mid-sized businesses, and enterprises. Cyber attacks against U.S. businesses are growing substantially every year. In fact, businesses in almost all industries and sectors are seeing a year over year increase in cyber threats that result in breaches of sensitive data. Unfortunately, you probably don’t have an unlimited budget for your information ...
Ransomware is an increasing risk to businesses around the world. This Touchstone Security guide will explain what ransomware is, and why the rise of Ransomware as a Service is putting many organizations increasingly at risk. This isn’t due to some new variant of code that is particularly damaging. Instead it’s due to the fact that Ransomware is now much more ...
For many company's, cybersecurity is still an abstract concept, something they think they may have to deal with later but right now they are too small to be a target. Unfortunately this is less and less the case. Hackers are increasingly focusing on small and mid-sized businesses who lack the enterprise grade protection that many larger companies enjoy. But that ...
So far in 2020, the HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool has reported over 100 breaches affecting millions of people under the care of doctors offices and healthcare practices around the United States. Data breaches impact the lives of many people and tarnish the reputations of companies and organizations affected. Consumers begin to lose faith in groups with security breaches — this results ...
