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With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing many of us to work from home, this means tapping into technologies that allow us to remotely connect to our office, or otherwise access business resources from a remote location. This could in turn provide criminal hackers that same access. It is a particular danger for small businesses where their…
We’re not all equipped to work from home, but that’s what many of us have been instructed to do. Big companies have resources that smaller companies just don’t have access to. But how do you setup a safe and functional work from home environment for you and your staff? At Positive E Solutions Inc., we…
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As 2020 settles in, Robbie visited Raf Bivar at ESET Canada’s head office in Toronto, Ontario to discuss the evolution of cyber threats, what we can expect in the year to come, and what it takes to truly protect ourselves from the ever-evolving threats to our companies.
It might sound inconceivable to some, but one of the most significant and preventable causes of companies falling victim to cybercrime is when employees themselves circumvent the firewall. Now, why would anyone do that? Picture an accountant, working busily away, trying to get hold of some last-minute data to complete a report that is already…
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It’s a new world when a single attack can affect hundreds of thousands of businesses. Software, services, and core components of your business have been progressively migrating to the cloud; the Managed Service Provider. Have we become complacent by thinking they’re too big to be compromized? Robbie Ferguson takes us on a tour of the…
A surefire way to make tech-savvy people shudder is to email them your credit card number to pay a bill. It’s not that they don’t appreciate the transfer of funds to their account, but they understand that with email, you’re not just sending it to them. Any number of people in between (or computers, called…
The compromised company may bear the financial brunt of the breach within the first year after the incident occurs, but the price tag is still far from final. The average cost of a data breach has risen 12% over the past five years to US$3.92 million globally, according to IBM’s 2019 Cost of a Data Breach study, which…
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The relationships between departments have evolved immensely over recent years–and they must, thanks in part to the current cybersecurity landscape and new data privacy regulations. The difference is especially apparent when reviewing the old silo mentality that segregated the IT Department from the C-Level, forcing data security decisions to fall squarely on the computer support…
Over the years, the relationship between IT, cybersecurity and the executive C-Suite has changed, but as the perpetual slate of data breaches and hacking incidents shows, there is still a long way to go. Senior executives naturally have a lot on their plate, and IT has typically been one of many silos in an organization…
It is with great appreciation to both our on-site team here at Positive E Solutions Inc., and to the team at ESET Canada that we announce that we have been honored as ESET’s MVP Partner Of The Year. This is our second time receiving this award, and to us it represents a mutual appreciation between…
