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What Should Be Included in a Small Business Disaster Recovery Plan?

What Should Be Included in a Small Business Disaster Recovery Plan?

A small business disaster recovery (DR) plan should outline exactly how your business will restore critical systems, recover data, communicate with employees and customers, and resume operations after an unexpected…
A Small Business Roadmap for Implementing Zero-Trust Architecture

A Small Business Roadmap for Implementing Zero-Trust Architecture

Most small businesses aren’t breached because they have no security at all. They’re breached because a single stolen password becomes a master key to everything else. That’s the flaw in…

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Why Bad Onboarding Is the Real Cause of Messy Offboarding

Why Bad Onboarding Is the Real Cause of Messy Offboarding

https://powersolution.com/ Article Summary: Offboarding is the final step of a process that started on the employee’s first day. Shared logins, forgotten SaaS subscriptions, untracked personal…
7 Security Gaps SMBs Face Without Managed Security

7 Security Gaps SMBs Face Without Managed Security

Is Your Business Protected Against Today’s Cyber Threats? Cybercriminals don’t just target large corporations. Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are increasingly being targeted because they…
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10 Signs Your Business Has Outgrown Break-Fix IT

Is It Time to Move Beyond Waiting for Something to Break? Many small and midsize businesses begin with a break-fix IT model because it seems…
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What Are the Best IT Compliance Services for HIPAA and PCI Compliance?

If your business handles protected health information (PHI) or processes credit card payments, compliance isn’t optional—it’s essential. Regulations like HIPAA and PCI DSS are designed…
How Managed Cybersecurity Services Reduce Cyber Risk for Professional Firms

How Managed Cybersecurity Services Reduce Cyber Risk for Professional Firms

Professional firms—including law firms, accounting firms, engineering firms, financial advisors, and consultants—handle some of the most sensitive information their clients own. From financial records and…
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What Makes Managed Security Services Essential for Small Business Cybersecurity?

Managed Security Services have become essential for small business cybersecurity because cybercriminals increasingly target organizations with limited internal IT resources. A Managed Security Service Provider…

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Twitter Hacked in Coordinated Social Engineering Attack

Twitter stated that the company detected what they believed to be “a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools.”  Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted several hours later that it was a

Top 10 Computer Virus Symptoms [Checklist]

Computer virus symptoms are a not cast in stone, but rather a moving target. Just like with the human viral conditions, they evolve through generations – which in computer technology terms may mean weeks or even days. Some symptoms may not necessarily mean an

The cost of downtime for small business

Downtime is not a question of it happens, but when it happens. Is your business a downtime statistic? 24% of companies said they experienced a full data disaster? 44% of small businesses have been a victim of a cyber attack? Do average midsize companies

Best Practices for Financial Services IT

If your company identifies as a financial service business that doesn’t have the IT resources to  effectively recover from a major outage, make sure you’re weighing all of the factors around the costs of downtime. Here are the facts: US businesses lose $12 billion

Financial Companies Have a False Sense of Security

While you may be taking some precautions, such as securing and backing up your sensitive data, sometimes that’s not enough. There is a common misconception that data is safe if backed up once a day, but this outdated practice is no longer sufficient for

11 Slow Computer Issues you must fix right now

Reason #1: Your computer was running for a long time without a reboot.   What is a Boot? What’s a Reboot? Is it the same process as a Start and Restart? There are lots of explanations, definitions, and plain nonsense. Some are great valid

How COVID-19 pandemic will affect remote workforce after it passes

A consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic will be an accelerated ramp-up of partial and/or full remote workforces after the pandemic has passed There are advantages and disadvantages to utilizing a remote workforce in lieu of the in-office work experience.  Much of traditional management thinking

Benefits and facilitation of a productive remote workforce

As previously indicated, it is not necessarily intuitive for many organization leaders to appreciate the benefits of a remote workforce.  An immediate perceived loss is the lack of ability to see workers at their desks putting in their scheduled hours.  Also, not having the

Remote Workforce: Technology Considerations

Many home offices do not maintain the same technology standards, including IT security, that are provided at the employee’s office building.   The remote equipment and network should be evaluated and documented for functionality and security. A prevalent technology for securing remote connections is the

Zoom Meetings – Video Communications Cyber Vulnerabilities and Remediation

On Tuesday, 4/28/20, the New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell (NJCCIC) published an advisory that cited certain cyber vulnerabilities associated with the Zoom platform.  This follows a more detailed publication of those vulnerabilities by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security released on 4/27/20,

Cybersecurity Alert: COVID-19 Themed Phishing Emails

Through powersolution’s membership of the Cyber Health Working Group (CHWG)*, a new phishing campaign has been detected and reported on. This phishing campaign is designed around COVID-19 themed emails that contain a link to a phishing page that attempts to collect credentials for multiple

The Importance of Cyber Resilience for your business

Did you know that 60% of businesses that suffer a cyber attack go out of business within six months? The vast majority of damage is due to the inability of the company to respond because they have not developed a cyber prevention and response

Cyber Security Risks of Employee Negligence

How Employees Slip Up When you look around at your digital landscape, you can probably point to any number of ways that a cyber attack might occur — but can you identify your single greatest threat? Employees, the greatest asset to most high-performing organizations,

What technologies are impacting cybersecurity today?

We deliver a set of services that helps keep you on track with the latest developments, both what to watch for and what to keep away from. It’s good to know what effect technology has on your business.   1. Social Media 75% of

Dridex Malware alert issued by US-CERT

In a recent US-CERT/CISA alert on Dridex malware and its various iterations, information is confirmed that this malware has the capability to impact confidentiality of customer data and availability of data and systems for business processes. According to industry reporting, the original version of

15 Tips to Make Sure Your WiFi Doesn’t Let You Down

Is it time to upgrade your WiFi?  How to save time, money, and ensure a great WiFi experience. 1. Research your current WiFi conditions Gather feedback from ALL employees and customers about their WiFi and network experience. As the business owner, you likely know

SSL – what it means, how it works and where it is used.

If you want to run commercial transactions, or process your website’s data online securely, you need an SSL certificate for your website. Basically, it gives you the valid encryption for the website – and if you ever wondered what is the difference between domains

What is Email Spoofing and How to Identify It?

A “spoofed” email is essentially a “pretend” email when the sender deliberately manipulates the email’s headers to make the message appear as though it was authored by someone else. For example, you receive an email that looks like it came from your boss, from

Department of Homeland Security Phishing Scam

The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) is the Nation’s flagship cyber defense, incident response, and operational integration center. Its mission is to reduce the Nation’s risk of systemic cybersecurity and communications challenges. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released a statement

Increased Office 365 Account Attacks

According to released information from Barracuda Networks, Microsoft Office 365 account takeover attacks are one of the most prevalent email attacks for the Office 365 platform. Barracuda states that approximately 29% of Organizations on Office 365 have had at least one account compromised by

PHI of 350,000 DHS Clients Compromised in Phishing Attack in Oregon

The Oregon DHS recently disclosed that the personal health information (PHI) of over 350,000 clients had been compromised in data breach. A phishing URL embedded into the spear-phishing email was clicked by nine employees, resulting in granting cybercriminals the access mailboxes of nearly 2

Important Alert: NEW Office 365 Phishing Threat

A new phishing attack is using fake non-delivery notification in an attempt to steal users’ Microsoft Office 365 credentials. These credentials will then be used to send messages from the users account, further spreading malicious emails and software. In this case, the attack begins