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A Strategic Guide to Safely Using IoT in Your Business

A Strategic Guide to Safely Using IoT in Your Business

Modern gadgets make running a business easier. From smart thermostats and lightbulbs to connected coffee machines, the Internet of Things (IoT) brings a lot of convenience to the workplace. However, because these devices are built for speed and low cost, they often skip the security features your business actually needs.

Essentially every smart device in your office is a potential digital back door for hackers. Let’s take a look at how IoT—as helpful as it can be—can also be a big problem.

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5 Unintuitive Security Hacks to Keep Your Data Safe

5 Unintuitive Security Hacks to Keep Your Data Safe

Are you unknowingly leaving important data out in plain sight? Too many businesses will implement incredibly powerful security solutions only to ignore the basics of physical security. It’s time to address the hidden vulnerabilities that patches and updates won’t solve by scrutinizing your physical infrastructure.

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Better Authentication is Always Your Fingertips

Better Authentication is Always Your Fingertips

Even if you’re doing everything right, business cybersecurity is a challenge. Mistakes are common. Passwords are forgotten, and physical buttons can go missing. That said, there is one form of authentication that you can’t help but have with you: yourself.

Biometrics have been experiencing a surge in popularity as a means of authentication. Let’s explore why that is.

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Your Eight-Character Passwords are Truly Obsolete

Your Eight-Character Passwords are Truly Obsolete

For literal decades, we heard that a good password required a few key traits to be secure: a capital letter, a number, and eight characters. How times have changed, right?

Now, the baseline standards are similar… just multiplied to the nth degree. Let’s discuss why this is, what modern businesses now need to do, and how we can help to maintain password security moving forward.

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3 Simple Cybersecurity Lessons for the Modern Business Environment

3 Simple Cybersecurity Lessons for the Modern Business Environment

Sometimes the toughest lessons that hurt the most are the ones we need the most, as is the case with anything cybersecurity related. You don’t want to experience a data breach, regardless of how it’s caused, but preventing them is a bit more challenging than you might at first expect. If you want to avoid losing time, money, and reputation needlessly, then take these three cybersecurity lessons into consideration today.

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