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Preparing to Sign a Cyberinsurance Policy

Preparing to Sign a Cyberinsurance Policy

Now you’ve read a little about cyber-insurance, and the challenges you might face. But don’t dismiss it just yet. There are substantial reasons to enter into a Cyberinsurance policy. Cyber insurance is there to provide resources when all of your defenses have failed, at a potentially …

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What is Cyberinsurance?

What is Cyberinsurance?

Ransomware continues to make headlines. The progress of businesses, schools, and government agencies comes to a grinding halt for perhaps hours, often for days. This phenomenon, among other things, has brought a new popular term into the IT lexicon - Cyber insurance. What is it? Do yo …

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Options for Upgrading Windows Server 2008 R2

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Nobody enjoys being forced to make major changes to their servers within a short timeframe. But Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 is rapidly approaching its end of life and now is the time to bring servers current to ensure regular security updates, support, and future bug fix …

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What to Do If You Can't Move from Microsoft Windows 7

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Does the GDPR Affect My US Company?

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Yes. That’s the short answer. But let’s take a step back to explain.

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Celebrate World Backup Day with a Restore Checkup

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Losing data that is critical to your home or business is embarrassing at a minimum, and business-ending at its worst. Losing it all on April Fool’s Day (April 1st’) would only add salt to the wound, but you know it’s happened to someone out there. This is what makes the relatively new …

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WannaCry: Global Ransomware Attack Slowed But NOT Stopped

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On Friday, May 12th an unprecedented cyber ransomware attack swept the globe. This ransomware, called WannaCry has, as of Monday, hit over 200,000 systems around the world, affecting more than 150 countries. At least 16 hospitals in England's National Health Services (NHS) were affect …

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Reasons why banks can benefit from backups

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Banks and other financial institutions are organizations that interact with a significant number of consumers daily. Whether a person visits the physical bank location to deposit a check or tracks accounts through a mobile app, banks are a staple that governs a lot of what individuals …

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Are You Prepared for World Backup Day?

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Have you backed up your data lately? What would you do if you lost everything? Every single day files are lost, hard drives crash, computers are stolen, and viruses wreak havoc. World Backup Day was created to remind users like you to backup your data, so that when disaster strikes, y …

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Passwords: 7 Security Mistakes

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Imagine leaving for work in the morning and leaving your front door not only unlocked, but wide open. Pretty unrealistic, right? Securing our valuables and the things in our home is very important to all of us, so why don’t we treat our cybersecurity the same way?

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