Learning cybersecurity protocols are saving small businesses everywhere — here are just a few. [Image: Salesforce | Getty] Steps you can take to provide major cybersecurity for small business with relatively little time and money. Matthew Schroeder January 16, 2025 8 min read ...
Six Ways to Improve Cybersecurity Policies and ProceduresJohn I. Sanders
While improving cybersecurity in individual schools is important, many decisions affecting security and privacy are made at the district level. Your local school may not have much say over its data security policy or the software products and student management systems it’s required to use. If y...
The possibility of losing data you haven’t backed up is another serious threat to your cyber security, so you should always have multiple copies of any information you wouldn’t be ok with not having access to. You can either back your data up using one of many cloud services or by pur...
So, what can you do to prevent a malicious cyberattack? Hack yourself first. A“white hat” security evaluation is one of the effective ways to pinpoint weaknesses in your security system. In fact, the U.S. Air Force instigated one of the first instances of white hat hacking to test it...
Best Practices to Improve Data Security The following 10 tips will help you increase the security of your data. 1. Protect the data itself, not just the perimeter Concentrating on securing the walls around your data seems to be the focus in many organizations, with almost 90% of security bud...
Ways to improve cyber security You could be weakening your cybersecurity without even realizing it. Consider these cybersecurity tips to improve your online experience and protect your information. Don’t accept friend requests from people you don’t know. Social media sites are a common place for...
If cybersecurity isn’t front of mind, it’s less likely the team will make a concerted effort to improve their current infrastructure. Yet this lack of attention can be a fatal mistake. Hacking operations often use bots to crawl multitudes of sites looking for known vulnerabilities. In these...
Improve Information-Sharing One way government agencies can strengthen their cybersecurity posture is through information-sharing. Currently, agencies largely work in silos, which needs to change, Shopp said. “If somebody is seeing a certain type of behavior or a certain type of attack, if they...
At the same time, our online identities – made up of all the data that apps and services collect – continue to be the most exploited area of vulnerability. Cybersecurity has often been viewed through a competitive rather than a collaborative lens. Organizations have focused on building their ...