Computer Security

Yet, it’s true—there are still some people that hesitate to use cloud-based software and one of their primary concerns about the cloud focuses on data security. In a recent survey of 4,500 high-level IT professionals in 83 countries, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) found that security risk is the most widely cited [...]

We all hear about, and sometimes experience issues with computer viruses. Most of the time we think of the damage that they can do upon our computers – destroyed files, compromised operational systems; you think of obvious signs of computer viruses, including the fact that your  computer keeps freezing… It is easy to forget that [...]

SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. It is an encryption protocol that provides communication security over the Internet. TLS stands for a Transport Layer Security. SSL is a predecessor of TLS. Both TLS and SSL are using asymmetric cryptography for authentication of key exchange, symmetric encryption for confidentiality, and message authentication codes for message integrity. [...]

So, do you think your employees may be stealing your business IP? Do they even realize it? I came across a great resource from Symantec – a whitepaper titled “What’s Yours is Mine: How Employees are Putting Your Intellectual Property at risk“. Data listed in the whitepaper is based on survey was conducted by The [...]

Here is a perfect illustration to Mistake #5 from our previously published Are You Too Trusting? 5 Common Computer Security Mistakes every SMB owner makes blog article. For those of us who think that small business owners should not worry about becoming cyber-crime victims, a news comes from Marysville, Ohio: a report from a private [...]