The digitization of the workplace has opened up new frontiers for employer oversight. With workers more connected than ever through computers and internet-based tools, companies are exploring the advantages of monitoring for optimizing workflow and enhancing productivity.
With the rise of remote work, it’s much more difficult for organizations to track the efficiency and cybersecurity practices of their employees. Employers argue that monitoring employees is crucial to protecting sensitive information and keeping them in line with company policies. But employee monitoring stokes a debate on the balance between corporate governance and employee […]
Each year on February 1st, we celebrate Change Your Password Day. While it’s not a holiday that gets you off work, it serves as a good opportunity each year to do a quick check-in and make sure you’re using strong passwords that will keep your accounts protected.
Long gone are the days when phones were simple devices used to make calls. Today our phones are advanced, handheld supercomputers that can do everything from pay a bill to order lunch for delivery to edit videos and more.
But with more capabilities come more risks.
The year of 2023 marked a significant turning point for cyber-attacks with the introduction and wide proliferation of AI (artificial intelligence), now in the hands of people who wish to do you harm and who are actively using it to find faster and easier ways to rob you, extort you or simply burn your business to the ground.
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It happens all the time: A coworker gives you a quick workaround for a long-winded procedure, or friends offer cool new applications to try, or we download new browser extensions based on good reviews from other customers.
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Ransomware steals and encrypts files, and refuses to give you the decryption key until you pay a steep fee. Often, the bad actor refuses to return data regardless of whether you pay; and sometimes they even charge a second “double extortion” fee to prevent them from publishing all the stolen data online.
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Data loss can happen to anyone, at any time. It can be caused by a hardware failure, software corruption, malware attack, fire, theft, or simply human error. Backing up your data is a crucial practice to protect yourself from these events.
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Have you heard about Okta?
Even if you haven’t, you still might have been affected by the large-scale breach on their systems which rocked the tech community on 19 October, 2023.
Okta is a third-party service which provides companies, like your own for example, with multi-factor authentication and other secure biometric identification and single sign-on tools.
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Have you hopped full-force onto the bandwagon of artificial intelligence?
AI is smart; it has advanced far beyond the chatbots of the 2000s and can now generate new recipes, write songs, and give you background information about any subject in the world.