Even though many companies may be working with smaller overall IT budgets, the portions of these IT budgets that are allocated towards security is increasing. This is happening because the

International cyber wars have been in the news a quite a bit lately. Countries are attacking other countries. Computer servers are being hacked by sophisticated government operations. Identity

Some cybercriminals operate a fraudulent scheme that is called a Business Email Compromise (BEC). In this crime, funds are stolen by convincing a person to send a bank wire to a dummy bank

For many industrial and commercial purposes, there are tremendous benefits, in terms of system management, for increased connectivity with the technological innovations of the Internet of Things

New privacy and data security rules are now in effect for any company that has some of its operations in Europe or has some customers from there. The European Union (EU) passed a law called the

Not all things need to be online. In fact, there are some systems and information that should never be online and instead be secured by a private offline network. This strategy is known as using

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services maintains a database that tracks every data breach of medical records where more than 500 records have been compromised. SafeticaUSA reports that,

When it is used properly, encryption is a valuable tool to help reduce data security breaches. Most business owners and C-level executives know something about the general topic of encryption;

Data security is a viable part of protecting the operations of any business. Think of this analogy. Even if you own a one-bedroom/one-bath home, which is the first home you ever purchased, this

The beginning of a new year is a great time to have a comprehensive data security analysis and to create a new strategic data security plan. There is plenty to be worried about when it comes to