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Phishing Exercises – Preventing businesses from falling for deceptive messages
Learn how to protect your employees and business against phishing, deceptive messages, and other malicious attacks. NCX Group will help you identify the right training exercises and security awareness programs that will mitigate the risk of your company being compromised by cyber criminals.
3 tips on how to better handle remote working cybersecurity risks
With the increase in remote working, organizations need to be better prepared for cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities. This means many things, but above all, when focusing on the remote workforce, it means training employees, analyzing software, and ensuring antivirus solutions are deployed on all devices.
Four questions to determine your partner’s cyber resilience
Determine your partner’s cyber resilience with these four questions and address cyber risks or compliance regulation needs immediately.
Best cybersecurity practices for your remote workforce
Cybersecurity real talk: You train, you give rules, and you understand the habits so that you can break the bad habits in time as you integrate and substitute with cybersecurity culture practices that you make a constant through business day-to-day operational habits. A simple break-down with best cybersecurity practices in mind are the following steps.
Keep an eye out for this phishing campaign
There are always a variety of phishing campaigns going around. This makes it hard to keep track of all of them. Nonetheless, it is important to stay up to date the best you can…
Network security with our IPK services
The value of network security is something every CEO and CIO, or other business executive, is aware of (or should be, one should hope). In one way or another, the executives are always looking to be effective in what they set up. The thing is, to be effective with cybersecurity overall, there is a need to take a holistic approach and to have the knowledge on what’s important, what’s not, what’s smoke in your eyes, and so on.
Take your cybersecurity up a notch to succeed in a changing world
Now that we know the “new norm” (as some have named it) is pretty much here to stay, it’s time to take cybersecurity up a notch with what’s become an integral part of this changing world: remote work and operations…
3 tips to harmonize your cybersecurity 2021 budget with business
If you are looking for effective ways to harmonize your cybersecurity 2021 budget with business, here are some helpful tips to guide you.
Keep up cybersecurity for last minute holiday shopping
A cybersecurity checklist to protect your business from two top online holiday shopping threats…
A new year cybersecurity plan that includes the remote workforce
A checklist that gives you the possibility to create a strong cybersecurity posture with your remote workforce in mind for the new year and beyond.
3 keys to a successful cybersecurity plan for the new year
This year businesses have had to learn how to deal with uncertainty and plan on the fly. While many executives and their teams have done the best they could, the transition to a predominantly remote workforce puts some new pieces in the forefront when thinking about...
CCPA expands and will be replaced by California Privacy Rights Act
Get ready for CPRA: For executives and security leaders that are keeping an eye out for data privacy compliance regulations, note that the proposition to expand CCPA’s regulations passed on November 3, 2020. The date that you want to mark on your calendars is January 2023. The expansion of CCPA is called the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). It is meant to provide the consumer their complete data rights.
Get a highly effective CISO for your business
A recent study reveals that only 12% of CISOs (chief information security officers) are considered “highly effective”…
Three areas of focus for SMB cybersecurity spending post-COVID-19
The good news for the security sector, in these challenging times, is that Gartner foresees security spending to grow in the new year. This is optimal when we acknowledge the uncertainty that is still around and that will continue post-COVID-19. The pandemic brought...
Study shows CEOs can expect to take the fall when cybersecurity fails
A recent study by Gartner shows how much the CEO has on their shoulders related to the risk management of the company…
Charting a course for a security strategy that includes your remote workforce
While we’ve discussed pandemic plans and various guidelines for security and business executives to put into place as COVID-19 shifted the workforce to remote working, we have yet to share an overall checklist of things you can do to set your security strategy on course with remote working long-term.
M&A cybersecurity due diligence guide for selling or buying a business
With everything that has taken place as a result of COVID-19, a number of businesses have been put in a position of struggle for survival. While there are business owners ready to fight the fight to stay in business, other CEOs and business executives are ready to move on to something else, and to sell their companies. Whether buyer or seller, cybersecurity due diligence for M&A is something of great value for your business.
Bringing to focus SMB cybersecurity needs
Recent research found that small and medium businesses (SMBs) use free cybersecurity tools for the most part, that one fifth of SMBs have no endpoint security and that almost half of SMBs have no cybersecurity defense plans. These notions are not new to us, as a...
Cybersecurity guidance for executives to stay ahead of COVID-19 risks
For every company, it is important to have someone to turn to for security. Typically, that’s the CIO, CISO, and your IT security team. However, not every business has the security staff they need to stay on top of things; particularly with this large of a remote workforce as we’re experiencing at this time with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Rethinking cybersecurity priorities amid the coronavirus pandemic
With the majority of employees working from home, business executives have had to take a good look at setting up a foundation for efficient cybersecurity practices ASAP.
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