Who is a slacker?

You walk by employees' desks and see them furiously typing away, apparently hard at work. Reality is: the employees might be trading stocks, e-mailing jokes or checking out an online dating site! E-mail and high-speed access have become standard-issue office equipment, abuse of computers in the workplace has become rampant, making the water cooler look like a think-tank. A new generation is spending hours a day frittering away time online - cyberslacking. Cyberslacking is a pervasive and constant problem in the new workplace.   Cyberslacking at an all time high Bad news for the Small Medium Business (SMB): social networks are destroying employee productivity. Time and money are being wasted at a higher rate than most employers… Read Full Post

Small Business – Big Losses

The SMB (Small Medium Business) is on the same Internet as everyone else, and they come face to face with the same cybercriminals that Fortune 500 companies fight on a constant basis. Even big companies suffer security breaches, and losing sensitive data and have corporate accounts cleaned out by sophisticated banking Trojans. SMBs are typically on the hook for these losses and lack effective means to prevent them. Even high security organizations like Stratfor, the FBI and Treasury Board Canada are not immune. What should the SMB owner do to reduce the risk? Change .. your Attitude  The SMB is the target! The five top excuses for not improving security posture of the SMB are: -I am too small for them to come after. Read… Read Full Post

Data recovery failure and how to prevent it

What makes grown men cry? It doesn’t happen often, but the face goes white, the voice quivers, and noticeable signs of irritation. Talking with Small Medium Business (SMB) owners, it quickly becomes apparent there is a big disconnect between what they ‘think’ they have and what they really have.     The Small Medium Business world has changed. Transactions are faster and reaching out to more people in more places than ever before. All this change means an explosive growth of data including email, customer information, and business transactions.  The data is growing in importance to the SMB, however most SMB’s are not keeping pace with safeguarding that data, even though the value is growing. The common excuse… Read Full Post

Small Medium Businesses (SMB) are the Targets
Part 1
Understanding the Threats,
Defending the Business

Just about everyone knows someone who has had a credit card compromised.  

The cybercriminal is changing, and getting smarter, they are no longer focusing on identity theft of students, minimum wage workers or old age security seniors. Cybercriminals are going after the money. Cybercriminals are not only exploiting small and midsize businesses, they’re targeting them.

While thefts of hundreds of thousands or even millions of credit card numbers and personal information records make headlines, many small companies’ accounts have been cleaned out. Check out our whitepaper, we identify how SMBs are exploited, where their security fails and how they can…

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