Network Innovation Solutions Blog

Cyber criminals don’t just slip into your network with the help of some serious hacking skills.  In fact, there’s a much simpler way to do that... through your employees. 

Social engineering is a tactic hackers are using more and more frequently to infiltrate systems.  It involves a variety of approaches that focus on manipulating employees to drop standard security protocols.  And if you expect to protect your data these days, then you’ll have to take the necessary steps to educate and train your employees on how to detect and avoid these approaches. 

Many states’ stay-at-home orders that are/were designed to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 virus are now lapsing all over the U.S. As a result, business owners are re-opening their doors to a great deal of uncertainty. We have put together this guide to help the business owner understand that, even though you’ve finally been given the go-ahead, you have a responsibility to keep your staff and customers safe.

Data security isn’t a matter to be taken lightly, as too many businesses have found out the hard way. Unfortunately, there are far too many simple ways to correct common security issues - enough that it’s foolish not to do so. We’ll review a few ways to fix security issues, after discussing one of, if not the, most egregious security failings in modern history.