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What is Zero Trust?

January 13, 2022
The landscape of security challenges your business faces today has evolved significantly over the past decade. The rapid shift towards a more digital and connected world has led many organizations to adopt new work paradigms.

Employees, with the best of intentions, have started using personal devices that are not managed by the organization, collaborating through public cloud services, and sharing data beyond the safety of the secured network perimeter. As organizations adapted to changes like these, cybercriminals saw an opportunity, focusing their attacks on these newfound network vulnerabilities.

This shift in how employees use devices in these new settings left many organizations unprepared to ensure the security and safety of their data being stored and transmitted outside their secure environment.
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Cybersecurity

Top 5 Cybersecurity Best Practices for Small to Medium Businesses

January 07, 2022

Social engineering attacks on unsuspecting employees continue to be a favorite tactic among cyberhackers. Employee behaviors, such as clicking on fraudulent links in emails, reusing passwords across business and personal accounts, or downloading PDFs containing ransomware, put a company at risk. Small to medium-sized businesses (SMB) can reduce these risks by employing the following cybersecurity best practices within their organizations.

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Cybersecurity

Microsoft's New Commerce Experience (NCE) for CSP

December 31, 2021

UPDATED: March 18, 2022
Microsoft recently announced they have reimagined the way commercial customers will transact with them. Their latest initiative is referred to as the New Commerce Experience, or NCE. Their goal is to simplify the licensing process and improve the purchasing experience for Microsoft customers.

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IT Solutions & Support

SECURITY ALERT: log4j-CVE-2021-44228

December 21, 2021

UPDATE: December 21, 2021- We have identified the products Systems Engineering sells and supports that are impacted by the log4j vulnerability. Affected products are listed below along with our plans to address each.

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Security Bulletins & Alerts

911 and E911 in the Hybrid Workplace

December 17, 2021

Having an employee in medical distress is a situation no company wants to experience, but every company must prepare for. When emergencies occur, we instinctively call 911 for help and expect to connect with emergency services. But what if your organization has multi-line phone systems, remote staff, or uses softphones? Calling 911 may not necessarily be so straightforward. Here are two essential laws you need to know when preparing your business for a potential 911 situation.

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IT Solutions & Support

Patch Management Best Practices

November 18, 2021

Every organization wants to stay off the cyber hacker’s radar, but with the increasing number of data breaches year over year, this is easier said than done. According to the latest report from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), the number of reported data breaches through Q3 of 2021 has already exceeded the total number of breaches reported in 2020 by 17%.

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Network Security

What is Patch Management and why is it important?

November 12, 2021

Exploiting security vulnerabilities in unpatched systems has become one of the leading causes of data breaches today. Cybercriminals are actively scouring networks searching for vulnerabilities in systems and applications to exploit. However, new vulnerabilities are not the only target.

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Network Security