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Byron Martin: Oct 3, 2020
The Zelle app is a person-to-person transfer app that allows for easy payments straight from a user’s bank account, similar to Venmo or PayPal, that’s “backed” by banks. Like most social engineering tactics, the scam preys on an individual’s trust.
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Byron Martin: Oct 2, 2020
Stats show that 30% of your employees will fail, and fall for a fake email, and potentially get you ransomware.
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Byron Martin: Oct 1, 2020
We’ve all been there. You’re in the airport and need to quickly charge your phone before you jump on your plane. Fortunately, airports now have...
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Byron Martin: Sep 29, 2020
"Only 11% of enterprise users make use of those tools (Speaking of MFA). That means a staggering 89% of accounts remain open to fairly simple...
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Charlie Hill: Sep 25, 2020
Does your home internet feel slower, less reliable, than it was, just last year? Are your once smooth, HD movies now looking pixelated and choppy?...
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Byron Martin: Sep 22, 2020
92% of all breaches could have been prevented with a Security Awareness Training program. Security Awareness Training is a means to educate and train...
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Byron Martin: Sep 17, 2020
More than 30,700 organizations were targeted in the first quarter of 2020 with Business Email Compromise attacks.
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Byron Martin: Sep 15, 2020
Today’s IT professional has so much more on their plate than ever before. “IT infrastructure leaders often feel that they’re constantly in catch-up...
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Daniel Morgan: Sep 13, 2020
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies have spent the last few months scrambling to get their staff properly set up for remote work.
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Byron Martin: Sep 12, 2020
The Average Time it takes to identify a data breach is 197 days. The average time it takes to contain a breach is 69 days. With the volume of cyber...
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Byron Martin: Sep 11, 2020
The average ransom paid by a victim, increased by 60%, rising from $111,605 to $178,254 - according to a recent report from Coveware, comparing the...
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Byron Martin: Sep 9, 2020
RansomCloud attacks your cloud data! It’s a ransomware attack built for the cloud...
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Byron Martin: Aug 3, 2020
Business Email Compromise (BEC) is one of the leading cyber threats today so it's important to know that there are many valuable tips for keeping...
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Byron Martin: Jul 31, 2020
There are multiple layers to the internet. The Dark Web is an unseen layer contained within the Deep Web, another sub-layer of the Internet that is...
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Byron Martin: Jul 30, 2020
Let me tell you a True Story about a Business Email Compromise BEC. It was one of those calls that I sometimes dread not knowing entirely what to...
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Byron Martin: Jul 27, 2020
Manufacturing Represents 62% of all Ransomware Payments In 2017 Kivu facilitated ransom payments of over $17m for over 143 cases . Of this they took...
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Byron Martin: Jun 22, 2020
Have you had your password stolen? According to Avast, a company that specializes in anti-virus software and VPN services, over 29 billion passwords...
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Byron Martin: Jun 9, 2020
As a Managed Information Technology Services Provider, and an essential critical infrastructure business, Teknologize has continued to operate and...
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Byron Martin: May 28, 2020
Multi-factor authentication is a methodology whereby someone is granted access to a computer, device, or application only after providing two or more...
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Byron Martin: May 22, 2020
Should you be concerned about your identity being compromised? Yes! In 2019, 14.4 million consumers became victims of identity fraud — that’s about 1...
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Byron Martin: May 8, 2020
I had a couple statistics that I was looking at last week, and they kind of blew my mind, so I thought I'd share them with you.
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Byron Martin: May 7, 2020
According to a report from Microsoft, COVID-19-themed cyber attacks spiked to nearly a million a day during the first week of March 2020.
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Byron Martin: Apr 30, 2020
The workplace is going hybrid. Work can only happen anywhere when it’s digitized and connected.
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Byron Martin: Apr 13, 2020
The FBI has received multiple reports of video teleconferencing and online classroom hijacking, also called “Zoom-bombing”, during the COVID-19.
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Byron Martin: Dec 27, 2019
To get inside Managed Service Providers, MSPs, attackers have capitalized on security lapses such as weak passwords and failure to use multi-factor...
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Byron Martin: Dec 2, 2019
36% of executives say their primary goal for AI is to optimize internal business operations according to Harvard Business Review.
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Byron Martin: Oct 17, 2019
A Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business Publication. Six trillion dollars. It’s the estimated cost of the war on terror. And it’s the projected annual...
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Byron Martin: Oct 4, 2019
Carissa Lehmkuhl from KAPP-KVEW interviewed Byron Martin, CEO of Teknologize leading up to our Breakfast Series "The Evolution of Ransomcloud." By...
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Byron Martin: Jul 15, 2019
By Byron Martin | HFG Trust Connect Magazine - July 2019 | View Article Technology has never been so important to businesses and individuals as it is...
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Byron Martin: Jun 12, 2019
IT Strategy (Information Technology Strategy or Technology Strategy) is a plan of action to create an information technology capability for maximum,...
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Byron Martin: May 20, 2019
As a business owner, you know that time is money. The more time your business is up, the more potential you have to close a sale, please a customer,...
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Byron Martin: Mar 21, 2019
Spending hours or days waiting for your IT guy to arrive isn’t worth it. That’s bad IT. And you don’t have to live with it.
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Byron Martin: Mar 15, 2019
When was the last time you thought about the password policy for your business?
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Byron Martin: Feb 18, 2019
The percentage of spending that goes towards technology varies from one industry to another. For example, a financial entity will usually invest more...
