Spectra Networks, Joe Silva Why Are Cyber Attacks on the Rise in the Healthcare Industry? As if this past year has not been stressful enough for the healthcare industry with the onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic, it has another growing risk to worry about as well, cyber attacks. In an ... Disaster Recovery HIPAA IT Consulting Managed Cybersecurity Security Jun 9, 2021
Spectra Networks, Joe Silva How Can Ransomware Bring a Business To Its Knees? As an IT Support and Managed IT Provider, we make it our business to know what security risks each of our client’s systems face. Unfortunately, not all businesses realize the internal and external thr... Security Jun 2, 2021
Spectra Networks, Joe Silva How Can You Mitigate the “Pass the Cookie” Attacks? In January of this year, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an alert following a spate of attacks, advising users to strengthen their cloud environment configuration... IT Consulting Managed Cybersecurity Managed Services Security May 5, 2021
Spectra Networks, Joe Silva How Do We Fix the Human Error Problem? Last week we took a look at how businesses can stop hackers from successfully accessing your data. We talked at length about flaws in software and how you protect against this using multi factor authe... IT Consulting Security Apr 21, 2021
Spectra Networks, Joe Silva How to Stay Ahead of the Hackers Staying protected from every cyber threat is a full time business and then some. Even strictly following security best practices does not always guarantee that your company will not be breached at som... IT Consulting Phishing Ransomware Security Apr 14, 2021
Spectra Networks, Joe Silva Identity & Access Management: What Is It & Why Does My Organization Need It? Identity and Access Management (IAM) security is an essential part of any IT department’s security protocols. IAMs manage digital identities and access the rights to data, systems, and resources withi... Compliance IT Consulting Managed Services Security Mar 17, 2021
Spectra Networks, Joe Silva What Is Malware & How Can I Protect Against It? Learning how to recognize and defend against malware attacks is one of the critical tasks of IT departments across the globe. Malicious software, or malware for short, typically includes: spyware, vir... IT Consulting Managed Cybersecurity Managed Services Security Mar 10, 2021
Spectra Networks, Joe Silva Helping Employees Identify Cyber Threats Recent cyber security statistics reveal a huge increase in hacked and breached data over the course of 2020. This could be due to technology trends, a side effect of the pandemic, the increased prowes... Breach IT Consulting Managed Cybersecurity Managed Services Phishing Security Mar 3, 2021
Spectra Networks, Joe Silva What We Know & Don’t Know About the Massive Cyber Breach of the US Government In 2020 the United States suffered a cyber breach that resulted in a security failure of enormous proportions. Over the course of the year the level and scope of this breach has been a massive wake-up... Breach IT Consulting Managed Services Security Feb 17, 2021
Spectra Networks, Joe Silva What Is Multi-Factor Authentication & Why Your Business Needs It Americans have been handed many harsh blows in the past year. The pandemic has changed how and where we work, the economic upheaval has many small and medium-sized businesses grappling with how to rem... IT Consulting Managed Cybersecurity Security Feb 3, 2021
Spectra Networks, Joe Silva 9 Work-From-Home Essentials For the Remote Worker In a matter of mere weeks, working remotely went from being a slowly growing trend in the business world to a lifesaving necessity due to the coronavirus. For some businesses this abrupt shift to bein... IT Consulting Managed Services Security Teleconferencing Video Conferencing Wi-Fi Jan 20, 2021
Spectra Networks, Joe Silva Secure Your Website & Stop Scaring Customers Have you ever been perusing the internet and opened up a website on your device only to be greeted by a startling message to “Go Back, Unsecure Site” or noticed that there is a message from the browse... Encryption IT Consulting Security Dec 16, 2020