Author name: Megan Augustine

There are certain traditions we should hold onto. There are other traditions that demand serious consideration. One tradition your business may want to analyze, is the policy of hardware purchases. There is the belief in many businesses that the company should own hardware.

This week we are discussing ways to improve your work at home experience. Yesterday we introduced the Mobile First concept where employees are set up with the ability to work from anywhere. We explored how a virtual desktop and a smart phone are the ideal companions and solve many of the problems working from home introduced.

Some technology trends happen gradually, while others seem like they come out of nowhere. 2020 has confirmed change is inevitable and revealed that sometimes change can happen overnight. Maybe we can’t go so far as to say, expect change, but we probably shouldn’t get too comfortable either.

Engineers can live in a bubble, so sales quickly pointed out that there are people who have heard the terms but may not know much about them. This post isn’t intended to be a deep dive on any of these subjects, but it will serve to provide an introduction into each area of cybersecurity. Our

Ransomware attacks are more serious than the headlines would have you believe. For some, you’ve only read about ransomware attacks on the news. The headlines are alarming and raise the proper amount of concern. City of Baltimore, Target, Home Depot, Equifax, the list of organizations who have experienced a cyber-attack is long. Many organizations fail

2020 has been nothing short of unpredictable. For the first time in recent history, people’s New Years’ resolutions were halted due to the Covid-19 shutdown. At least for people who hadn’t given up a week into the year. One thing we can all take away from the past 6 months is that what we were

A recent report published by cyber security firm Tessian, found that 52% of employees feel they can get away with riskier behavior while working from home. The study has some revealing trends that are a true indicator of the state of security with work from home employees. For example, the study highlights that work from home employees are willing to share confidential documents via email.

According to a recent study, more than half of work from home employees are putting their organizations at risks for a cybersecurity attack by being lax about security protocols.  With an increase of almost a third of the country working from home due to covid-19, the amount of risk for organizations to suffer an online

In a June 2020 research study, IBM found that while the majority of employees said they were confident in their company’s ability to keep information secure, many haven’t been trained on work from home policies. IBM surveyed over 2,000 US based remote workers and found that out of 93% who were confident, 53% were using

Our phones go everywhere with us, even to the bathroom. Let’s not talk about that. Instead, let’s focus for a few minutes on how much data lives on your personal cell phone.

Most people use their phone for much more than simply talking. If you are like me, you use it for banking, web browsing, and just about everything. Outside of work, I use my phone or tablet for 80% of my computer use.

I access social media through my phone, and even do the majority of my online shopping all through my cell phone. Fortunately, I work in IT, so I am exposed daily to the onslaught of security events. Events that are a result of defending against attackers or the threat intelligence sources we subscribe to.