FTC publishes interactive game on protecting laptops

FTC Laptop Security Game

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a short interactive game that quizzes a person’s knowledge on physical protection of laptops. The quiz / game only takes a few minutes and gives some good pointers on protecting laptops. Share this with your employees, clients, family and friends. Lost or stolen laptops and portable media are some of the leading causes of data breaches.

How to prevent cybercrime in small businesses

An article over at The Guardian called Cybercrime and hacking are even bigger worries for small business owners gives good advice on how a small business can protect themselves from cyber-crime.

A lot of small businesses do not properly protect company and customer information

Breach Secure Now! Offers MSPs New Platform to Keep Client Data Safe

Breach Secure Now’s IT channel offering provides rigorous security services + $100K of cyber-Insurance to protect their SMB clients

Morristown, NJ (PRWEB) January 20, 2015

Breach Secure Now!, a new division launched by HIPAA Secure Now! enables MSPs (managed service providers) to offer high-powered protection for sensitive data to their small and mid-sized business (SMB) clients.

SMBs should put information and people at the heart of security strategy

Computer Weekly has an insightful article on how small to midsize businesses should develop security strategies to protect valuable information while enlisting the help of employees.

Invest time and effort into making every member of staff a security champion. It is false economy to not utilise every means at your disposal to protect organisational assets, and the staff are actually the biggest threat when it comes to information assets.

Hey Small Business: You ARE a cyber-target!

The security firm, FireEye, has a very eye opening report titled “Big Threats for Small Businesses Five Reasons Your Small or Midsize Business is a Prime Target for Cybercriminals”

The report addresses a common misconception that small businesses have:

Top 5 Security Actions Every CEO Should Take

An article over at Security Intelligence discusses the 5 actions every CEO should take to increase security. These security actions apply whether your are a 5 person company or a multi-national corporation.

1. Increase the Security IQ of Every Employee
Ensuring a culture of security throughout the organization is essential and should cover every employee, whatever their role, and extend to business partners. Train them, test them on their level of awareness and follow up with phishing exercises to see how well they actually respond to threats.

Welcome to Breach Secure Now!

The Breach Secure Now! website will try to educate and inform businesses about the risk to sensitive data. This data might be customer, client, employee or vendor information. Once you understand the risk to sensitive data, you can take the precautions to protect the data. Thanks for stopping by and feel free to use the Contact Us form if you have any questions or would like more details on our Breach Secure Now! service.