With the continuous and rapid development of smart devices, it’s easy to imagine a comfortable and convenient future. And it isn’t just consumers who will benefit, either — smart devices can help business owners, expanding their visibility and control over their operations, among other advantages.

Most, if not all, small- and medium-sized businesses today — including your own in Kansas City — utilizes computers for various processes every day. You’re probably using PCs or laptops to maintain accounting records, personnel files, and customer information.

T-Mobile asks service plan applicants to submit their Social Security and government ID numbers to be able to assess their eligibility. This may be standard practice among telecom providers, but what’s interesting is that T-Mobile keeps such info long after they’ve done their assessment.

In our previous blog post, we discussed what cyber resilience is and why it is important for firms to have it. We also talked about the four main dimensions of cyber resilience, namely threat protection, recoverability, adaptability, and durability. In this post, we’ll explore ways in which your business can enhance its resilience against adverse IT events.

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, resiliency is the “ability to recover from or adjust easily to adversity or change.” In business and charity work, organizations face many adversities — and cyberthreats are among the most pernicious. Certainly, firms can set up all sorts of cybersecurity measures in place to prevent cyberattacks.

You know the parable about spreading rumors? The one in which the town gossip was tasked to gather the feathers she threw into the wind while standing in a church bell tower? This pretty much illustrates the way cybercriminals unleash their malware.

In fact, when a ransomware attack on a hospital resulted in a patient dying, the ransomware gang involved rescinded their ransom demands and gave the hospital the decryption keys.

Unless your employee’s job involves graphic design, audio/video editing, database processing, or other tasks that require large amounts of processing power, then that employee won’t need a powerful standalone computer. Instead, that employee would be fine with sharing a computer with someone else.