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5 More Tips to Keep Your Customer Data Secure

October 9, 2025November 20, 2017

Every day, the world creates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. That includes a huge amount of personal information not only about ourselves, but about our customers. With so much data out there, it’s more important than ever to safeguard the information you gather about your customers. Allowing your customers’ private information to fall into the wrong hands damages your reputation and erodes customer confidence. Even worse, it can result in lost sales and even legal action against your company.
A few weeks ago, we wrote about to building trust and keeping your customers’ data secure. Here are five more tips to help you get started!

Why 'password' is Not a Secure Password

October 9, 2025November 6, 2017

“Password” is not a secure password. That may seem like the most obvious statement in the world. Yet for some strange reason, “password” is still the 4^th most popular password choice, according to an annual study from SplashData. Here are the other gems from their Top 10 most popular (and most hacked) password list.

How to Keep Your Customer Information Secure

October 9, 2025October 10, 2017

Good security comes from good planning, so you need to carefully consider how to handle customer information in order to be successful. It’s your responsibility to make your customers feel safe and let them know that they can trust you. A large part of that is keeping your own computer systems safe. Because if you can’t protect your software, how can you protect sensitive customer information?
Collecting customer information is a delicate act of balancing expectations with results. You have to be straightforward and plan diligently in order to prove that you’re trustworthy and have the right safeguards in place to protect against breaches and loss of private information.

Why is My Computer So Slow?

October 9, 2025August 22, 2017

Frustration. You know the feeling. The tear-out-your-hair, pound-your-fist-on-the-desk feeling when you’re just trying to get something done and your computer is crawling. Why is your computer running so slow, and what can you do about it? Here are a few of the most common reasons and some advice on how to get your systems up to speed.

Hackers, Passwords and the Dark Web: What You Need to Know

October 9, 2025August 7, 2017

Criminals love stealing credentials, and too many people are handing them the keys to the kingdom. A recent study by Verizon showed that 91% of phishing attacks targeted the user’s credentials. Why? Because stealing your username and password is the easiest way to break in to your business data, your bank account and more.
We make it even easier when we choose weak passwords or reuse the same passwords in multiple places. In fact, the study reported that 63% of confirmed data breaches involved weak, stolen or default passwords.

Credit Card Skimming: What You Need to Know

October 9, 2025July 24, 2017

With all the discussion around cybercrime and phishing attacks, we know that pesky Nigerian princes or long-lost millionaire relatives are out to steal our money. We probably don’t suspect the ATM at the convenience store down the street. Unfortunately, ATMs and points of sale aren’t always safe, as more and more thieves are using credit card skimmers to steal credit card information.

Do You Know The True Cost of Downtime?

February 6, 2024June 26, 2017

Most business owners know the feeling… they head into the office early one morning, anxious to get to work on a critical meeting the next day. But when they arrive, they discover that their network is down, their email isn’t working, and the files they need are gone. Then they learn that their network is going to be down for at least a full week – maybe more.
The cause: Their six and a half-year-old server just died.

Critical Cyber Insurance Loopholes You Should Know About

June 12, 2017

Faced with the growing threat of hacks and data breaches, more and more businesses are looking toward cyber liability insurance to protect themselves. Being proactive about cybercrime is a good thing. Unfortunately, many cyber insurance policies have gaps in coverage that can leave your business vulnerable.
The cyber security field is exploding in popularity, but it is still a young field, and cyber insurance is equally immature. There’s little standard language for defining coverage, and every policy is a little different in terms of what’s included and what’s not. Businesses need to be careful to read the fine print.

3 Lessons from the Google Phishing Scam

May 15, 2017

If you haven’t heard, a super-sneaky phishing attack posing as Google Docs recently rampaged among Gmail users. The cleverly disguised email only took a couple clicks (through a REAL Google site!) to access your email account and forward the phishing email to everyone in your contact list. Google reacted quickly to stop the attack, but it spread like wildfire while it was active because it was so hard to detect.
Here’s how it worked:

7 Tips to Defend Against a Data Disaster

October 9, 2025April 5, 2017

One click may be all it takes…
You’re checking your email Monday morning, cup of coffee in hand. You mark a few to follow up, confirm a meeting for the afternoon, and then delete a couple of junk promotional emails. But then you come across one that looks important – and it’s about an overdue invoice. You click on it and open the attached document to see what the problem is. Little did you know, a malicious file that was embedded in that document is now infecting your system, spreading like wildfire across your network.
Suddenly a note pops up on your screen: