Just like you wouldn’t leave your doors unlocked, you need to protect your systems with IT security measures. While it is more difficult to visualize, a security breach in your computer system cost as much, if not more, than a physical break in. [Read more…]
How Flow Data is Changing Network Security Analytics as We Know It
In the last two years, there has been a drastic change in network analysis as more and more companies have come to understand the importance of network flow data in all aspects of their network analytics. Whereas in the past, IT teams would survey network security, performance, and process improvement as separate tasks using small packets of data related to each field, flow data is now providing a more thorough look at all of these topics combined. [Read more…]
Importance of Managed Security Services for Businesses
With the Internet being a major component for most businesses, it’s risky for one to operate without proper network security. Technology has developed over the years, and unfortunately, so did hackers and other malicious entities that would do anything to hack into your network and harm your computer. Cases of viruses attacking network systems and paralyzing operations have been on an upward trajectory. [Read more…]
Using a Cyber Security DMZ to Protect Your Networks
The Demilitarized Zone
Cyber security often incorporates a “network DMZ.” The De-Militarized Zone between North and South Korea was something established that put either side of the conflict out of the range of gunfire from the other. If you were caught in the DMZ, there was a high propensity you’d be shot. [Read more…]
Why You Need to Perform Periodic Cyber Security Assessments
Cyber security is an important part of all businesses. In this day and age, cybercriminals target everyone— from one-man shops to large corporations— in an attempt to steal data, get access to private data, and bring down networks. [Read more…]