Cybersecurity is not a matter of black or white. When it comes to meeting the security needs of your company, things can get complicated and overwhelming, but it doesn’t need to be. There is a reason why many enterprises have begun to outsource their security. Your IT department’s scope of responsibilities goes beyond the basic elements like setting up your router’s ...
Security, Speed, and Stability: The E-commerce Dilemma
As an online retailer, certain things are critical to success in today’s market. Customer trust is huge, and you can’t afford to compromise the security of the personal data and financial information they entrust you with. On the other hand, if your checkout page, or any other page on your website fails to load quickly, they will leave and bounce to another site. So, ...
January Hacking Recap: Winter Olympics, Fire and Fury, and Sonic The Hedgehog
There were quite a number of cyber incidents in January, and some of the most notable cyber incidents that kicked off the year had something in common. Malware scams and other hacking campaigns are only successful when the victim “pool” is large. So what better way to reach as many people as possible than through scams targeted at trending events, games, and even books ...
How to Secure Your CRM (Customer Relationship Management) Data From Hackers
CRM systems are one of the most useful applications for every organization. They enable businesses to store customer data, which can be utilized to build meaningful customer relationships, find new customers and grow revenues. Since CRM data contains such valuable information, it’s extremely tantalizing for hackers who are looking to steal personal information. In 2016 alone, t ...
Should You Disable Internet Cookies?
As we come close to the end of the month and Data Privacy Day approaches (celebrated January 28), there is one topic related to privacy that may have some users wondering what their actual purpose is: cookies. Many users have at least heard of Internet cookies due to pop-up alerts asking for permission to use cookies when visiting a website. In fact, a survey conducted by Econsul ...
Security and Compliance Checklist for Financial Industry Websites
Ensuring that your customers and your business is safe should be paramount, especially when you operate in the financial industry, and mistakes could cost people money. You have a moral and legal responsibility to be extremely careful with the handling of your customer's data and money, meaning that security should be imperative to your business. The Importance of SecuritySecurity a ...
Social Media, Online Quizzes, and Your Privacy
Online quizzes are all the rage on social media and on popular websites like Buzzfeed, Zimbio, Sporcle and many more. In fact, Buzzfeed’s top 50 most popular quizzes brought in an average of 3 million online engagements in March 2017. While it’s all fun and games, are you aware of the security implications that these online quizzes may bring? Security Implications for On ...
Small Businesses, GDPR, and Data Protection Officers
Celebrated every year on January 28 to promote privacy and data protection best practices, Data Privacy Day is an important day to highlight discussion topics related to the privacy of online consumers. This is Cloudbric’s second year in a row joining other Data Privacy Day champions in raising awareness. If you don’t already know, Data Protection Day, from which Data ...
2017 ‘Hacker Insight’ Recap
If you’ve been following us on Facebook, you know that we started a series called “Hacker Insight” where we explore topics and tech terms most frequently used in the hacker community. Along with a short description, we offer tips on how to stay protected from lesser known security threats. In this blog post, we will take a look at some of our most popular posts from ...
The Re-Emergence of Banking Trojans in 2017
2017 was the year in which ransomware grabbed the attention of many. Petya, NotPetya, and WannaCry, in particular, are still fresh on our minds. But with eyes on the major headlines of the past year — from the massive Equifax data breach to Uber’s embarrassing data leakage cover up — you might have missed out on another trend: the slow but steady re-emergence of ban ...