Protect Your Business from Information Theft

In my last post, I identified the need to protect your business from information theft.   In my humble opinion, most small-medium business don’t pay sufficient attention to this risk.    Here are some interesting statistics about cybercrime’s wide reach:

1 in 6 – Number of companies where employee fell for a simulated phishing email scam
$5.9 million – Median annual cost of cybercrime per U.S. company
47% – Number of U.S. small businesses that provide cybersecurity training to employees

The good news is that your security system doesn’t need to be perfect but rather, it just needs to be better than most.

Golf Association avoids tech “hazards” by teaming up with IT Radix

We are pleased to announce that the New Jersey State Golf Association is now one of the newest clients of IT Radix.  This nonprofit organization can trace its origins back to 1900 and now boasts over 250 members.  It is dedicated to the service of golf in the State of New Jersey and its activities promote and preserve the traditions of golf all over the state.

Email Management Strategy — Save!

This month’s email management strategy is:  Save!

File email attachments where they belong, and delete the email. File these attachments on your network’s personal or shared directories (i.e., desktop, documents, pictures, etc.)

Any questions? Give IT Radix a call.

Somebody’s Watching Me

You took a look at a new car online and now car ads are popping up on your social media pages, in your email and everywhere.  Why?  Because you're being tracked as you surf the Internet.  While you're surfing, technology is collecting data on you and your surfing habits.

Alert: Things to Do to Protect Yourself from Heartbleed

By now, you’ve probably already heard of the web server vulnerability dubbed "Heartbleed".  There is a lot of confusing info about it out there in the wild.  We thought we’d summarize it for you:

What it is?  A bug on some web servers that that can allow the attacker to obtain sensitive user information in a server’s memory including usernames, passwords and credit card numbers from a website.