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Does My Insurance Company Have a Say in My Business’ IT or Cyber Security Policy?

In the 2018 calendar year, there were more than 570 security breaches that compromised the identities of over 415 million employees and consumers around the world. Nearly half of these breaches were experienced by businesses, and while most of the news headlines we read tell us about large companies experiencing these breaches, the majority of […]

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How to Prevent Hacking

Cyber Security, Denver IT, IT Security / November 15, 2021 / how to prevent hacking, it security, ransomware

As a business owner, can you afford to potentially lose your data and the use of your computers to ransomware? Could you stand to pay potentially millions of dollars in fines for a data breach? Whether you’re a small company of only a few employees or a larger company, everyone is at risk. In one

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Introduction to Ransomware as a Service (RaaS)

Cyber Security, Denver IT, IT Security / October 20, 2021 / cryptocurrency, cybersecurity, ransomware as a service

So far in 2021, Ransomware attacks have resulted in catastrophic damages for individuals and businesses alike. Not all of these damages are monetary, either—disruption to key business functions can have long-lasting effects that can take weeks or months to completely resolve. The problem is very real. As of the publishing of this article, it’s likely

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Are You Ready for a Cyber Attack? Part 2 of 2

Cyber Security, Denver IT, IT Articles, IT Security / December 12, 2020

Preparing for Cyber attacks Part 2 of 2 In our last blog post , we discussed a presentation from our partner KnowBe4 on the evolution of cybercrime attacks and current methods that hackers are using to gain access to your personal and/or company information. In this second post, we will discuss what exactly you can

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Are You Ready for a Cyber Attack? Part 1 of 2

Cyber Security, Denver IT, Helpful Security Links, IT Articles, IT Security / December 12, 2020

Are You Ready for a Cyber Attack? Part 1 of 2 One of Mission Critical Systems partners, KnowBe4, recently shared a presentation with us on how serious the need for good cybersecurity has become. The sophistication of attacks has really taken a dramatic step forward in just the past eight to nine months- right when

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FBI has issued attack warning for healthcare providers

Denver IT, Helpful Security Links, IT Articles / October 29, 2020

There is a credible threat of a major attack from Russia coming against healthcare providers, in the form of network hijacks paired with ransomware. Please warn any clients in that space, make sure their systems and firewalls are all patched to the latest versions, and once again remind them that their staff are the weakest

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Ransomware: Protection and Recovery

Denver IT, Helpful Security Links, IT Articles, Tech Tips / April 3, 2018

Denver IT Protection Ransomware, the breed a malicious software that takes your computer hostage by encrypting files and demanding a ransom payment to unlock them, continues to be the scourge of computer networks everywhere. In the past month, ransomware attacks were carried out on a massive scale, including attacks on the Colorado Department of Transportation

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5 Best Security Practices

Denver IT / May 19, 2017

Smart Security Practices Know you weaknesses The first step to good security on your computer is to know where your weaknesses are and hot to correct them or fix any of the damage they might have caused. There are many avenues that can cause weaknesses including unused services on your computer that can still connect

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Creating Good Passwords

Denver IT / May 17, 2017

Protecting everything you lock with a good password is when you use length and complexity (mix of letters, numbers, symbols, and capitals). A six character password has been shown to be able to be cracked in under 13 minutes, but even a ten character password would currently take 900 years to crack with our latest

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The Changing Face of Security Threats

Denver IT / May 15, 2017

IT Security Threats In today’s day and age, we find ourselves the subject of digital attack. As the time has changed technology from room sized computers doing math to the world in your hand held device, so has time changed the people and the technique they use to exploit these advancements. We used to have

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