Security
What You Should Know About Cyber Security Insurance
Businesses And International Cyber Warfare At the Q1 2022 Business Roundtable conference hosted by the White House, United States President Joe Biden explained the cyber security implications of Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine in February. While this may sound like a topic that should be focused on protecting critical infrastructure and national security, the reason…
Read MoreHow to Increase Smartphone Security
The state of mobile security around the world is a popular topic of conversation among SynchroNet technicians. We get to meet many clients who are not aware of the multiple threats and risks they can bring into their businesses and personal lives just by using their smartphones in unsecure manners. Just about all of us…
Read MoreHow Office Printers Can Be Compromised by Physical Security Hackers
Within hacking culture, certain methods to break into IT systems hold more weight than others. News about complex, daring, and sophisticated attacks result in greater respect from other hackers. When this respect is conveyed on underground discussion forums, it becomes a badge of honor. Over the last few years, physical security hacking has become an…
Read MoreHow Cyber Security Risks Can Turn Into Physical Security Threats
The crossroads of information security and physical security is something that we closely follow at SynchroNet. Ever since manufacturers of electronic devices began rolling out connected devices such as IP surveillance cameras and motion detection sensors with internet connectivity, the cyber security landscape has become more challenging, and this has a lot to do with…
Read MoreWhy Cyber Security Relies on Physical Security
We can no longer think about information security as a business process that is separate from physical security. These two aspects of business security and safety have been going through a period of convergence that has quickly accelerated over the last two decades. An easy way to illustrate the convergence of information and physical security…
Read MoreEmail Safety is Just as Important as Email Security
Ever since the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol was established by Postel in the early 1980s, hackers have been interested in turning email into the ultimate attack surface. SMTP was quickly adopted by the scientific, academic, business, and government sectors as a favorite means of digital communications, and we can safely say that this has not…
Read MoreWhy Business Email Security is Vital to Prevent Phishing
Phishing has become one of the most dangerous cyber threats in the history of information security. In essence, phishing is a form of social engineering that consists of fooling someone into giving up sensitive information such as credit card numbers, username/password credential, or confidential business documents. At SynchroNet, our information security specialists stay up to…
Read MoreChoosing the Right Data Backup Plan for Your Business
Data protection and information security have become synonymous in the sense that they are both considered to be modern business processes. Trying to operate a business that relies on digital data requires adequate IT security planning and execution. What you need is a strategy that provides maximum protection without getting in the way of business…
Read MoreData Backups and Your Cyber Security Strategy
We live in times when we all need to become familiar with the hard truths of cyber security in the 21st century. At SynchroNet, we strongly believe that our clients should be able to clearly understand how today’s cyber threat environment directly affects them, and this is why we often state the following: * You…
Read MoreWhy Antivirus Protection is More Relevant Than Ever
In the world of information security, a virus is a piece of software that includes code instructions on how it should replicate itself and spread throughout systems. We associate this term with hackers and cybercrime, but it should be noted that virus program can also be crafted for non-malicious use such as file distribution routines.…
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