Ensuring good cyber security for your business is – unsurprisingly – crucial. However, there are numerous potential complications that could befall your business’s cyber security efforts. These threats spell disaster for the success of your attempts to protecting customer data – which is why we here at Meriplex are on hand to help. Don’t compromise; get … Read more
Cybersecurity threats in healthcare means the specific attack types that target healthcare organizations’ networks, clinical systems, and patient data: ransomware, phishing and social engineering, supply chain attacks, medical device exploits, and credential compromise. Each threat produces two simultaneous damage tracks: immediate operational disruption and a mandatory HIPAA compliance event with its own notification deadlines and … Read more
What Is Phishing and How to Prevent Phishing Attacks According to Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), 22% of the data breaches in 2019 involved phishing. The frequency of attacks like this vary from industry to industry, but 88% of organizations around the world experienced some type of spear phishing attempts in 2019. Another important wrinkle in … Read more
What your business is losing when not leveraging the cloud Businesses that skip the cloud typically lose cost efficiency, scalability, and the ability for teams to collaborate and access data from anywhere. The longer a business runs on legacy infrastructure alone, the more those gaps compound into real competitive disadvantage. Not sure what you’re actually … Read more
How do you know if your business is ready for the cloud? Your business is ready for the cloud when you’re running into concrete limits, not just curiosity about the trend. The clearest signals: you’re running out of storage, your team needs to work from more than one location, file sharing has turned into a … Read more
Cloud Security and Secure Access Service Edge This is the third installment in a 4-part blog series on cyber-security, sponsored by our partner Netrality. Part 1: Cybersecurity Essentials: Vulnerability Management ProgramsPart 2: Cybersecurity Essentials: Network Access Control (NAC)Part 4: Cybersecurity Essentials: Next-Generation Anti-Virus Protection As cloud services continue to rapidly proliferate, applications that were once hosted in traditional data centers … Read more
Next Generation NAC This is the second installment in a 4-part blog series on cyber-security, sponsored by our partner Netrality. Part 1: Cybersecurity Essentials: Vulnerability Management ProgramsPart 3: Cybersecurity Essentials: Cloud Security and SASEPart 4: Cybersecurity Essentials: Next-Generation Anti-Virus Protection BYOD and the IoT revolution have raised a difficult new security challenge for organizations: What’s the best way to … Read more
Vulnerability Management Programs This is the first installment in a 4-part blog series on cyber-security, sponsored by our partner Netrality. Part 2: Cybersecurity Essentials: Network Access Control (NAC)Part 3: Cybersecurity Essentials: Cloud Security and SASEPart 4: Cybersecurity Essentials: Next-Generation Anti-Virus Protection Ransomware attacks are growing more than 350% annually. In 2019 alone, ransomware attacks in the United States cost government … Read more
A Checklist to Help You Fortify Defenses With more and more businesses shifting quickly to a remote workforce due to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) public health crisis, an increasing cyber-threat is looming over those that have not fully secured their digital work-spaces. Cybercriminals are ready to take advantage of the pandemic, hoping that the gullible or … Read more
