You probably know about those hilariously obvious “Nigerian prince” emails that offer an amazing opportunity for riches if only you’ll hand over your bank account information. Well, as silly as they appear, these clumsy efforts do indeed grab hundreds of thousands of dollars each year – and that’s just your standard phishing maneuver. A more sophisticated and hard-to-spot technique called spear phishing poses even greater danger for folks who think they can spot a sma a mile away. Take a moment to find out about how this scam works and what you can do to keep yourself and your employees safe against it.
The High Cost of Data Breaches
GS Staff Data Security Solutions , Data Encrypt , Digital Storage , Austin IT ServicesYou may already know what a data breach can do to a business, from productivity and compliance problems to destruction of precious data that forces companies to go out of business. But these concerns take on a whole new vividness when they have dollar figures attached to them. Let’s take a look at just how much these data breaches are costing businesses, where the biggest problems lie, and why some businesses are coping better than others.
Data Backups 101: What You Need to Know
GS Staff Data Security Solutions , Data Backup , Managed IT Services , Austin IT ServicesDid you know that 70 percent of small businesses who experience catastrophic data loss fail within a year of the catastrophe? If you don’t want to be in that number, you need some sort of plan for backing up your precious data on a regular basis. Let’s look at a few basic considerations you’ll want to make when putting such a plan together.
Managed Security Services - Gravity Systems
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Gravity systems has what you need. We have highly qualified and trained team consisted of high-class security managers and engineers who provide you with in-depth analysis of new trends, and they also make sure that your systems as well as data are safe. Our company moves on with a proactive approach to meet up your security needs. We curb and intercept issues even before they put an impact on your business. Our experts know their work. They have complete set of tools at their finger-ends, and they provide you with proper security assessments keeping in view the proactively identified areas that contain potential threats and malware.
Expert execution of security strategy
Now you can protect your valuable data and at the same time you may have have reduction in the cost and complexity of information security. With a rapid and consistent expansion in the world of information technology, the risk of facing data breaches and assaults on cyber security has increased several folds. Though the risk level is high and constant, with Gravity systems you don’t have to get worried. It is also true that now adopting safety measures to make your organization more strong and to make it immune to constant dangers is more necessary than before. Gravity systems’ up to date solutions and measures for security reduce your risk of becoming a victim. Our IT support system minimizes the level of threats to your data. We monitor your environment to be ever vigilant hence be up to date with our proactive results. In this way we keep your information and infrastructure safe and secure under the most unfavourable of circumstances.
We combine experience into modernism
Gravity systems has now developed specialized security practice areas in order to help its clients so that they may understand and steer through various complex security landscape. These security practice areas are as under:
- Technology solutions
- Risk and Compliance Management
- Gravity systems LABS.
Gravity systems has a defensive strategy for securing your organization’s most valuable assets. We realize that data is the most important resource for you. If it is secure, your organization thrives on. We have a certified team that ensures that your hardware assets as well as information are completely protected from harm. Gravity systems monitors your organization constantly and provides IT Support Austin and security services for your company. We place great priority for alerts. Besides, our experts also provide incident management and customized reporting that continues all throughout the day & night, from Monday to Sunday and January 1st to December 31st.
A Threat within the network – addressing malware threats originated from inside and in the network
Nisarg Naik austin it support , Data Security , it support austin , Data Security Solutions , virus protection austinA common type of virus is a malware, which causes huge data loss and unrecoverable damage to your company’s system files. It is often believed that all these malwares are originated from inside. But fighting viruses from Internet is considered to be only a part of the battle against virus. Some of the viruses are originated from the inside as well, as the recent evidence suggests. Dealing with threats closer to home is also necessary.
[GS Note] Passwords – Mix it up!
Ross Langham Business Computer Support , Data Security , Data Security SolutionsIt’s a new year, and it’s time for new passwords. More and more of our personal and critical data is protected by passwords, and for businesses, securing this data is even more critical. If your information gets in the wrong hands, the damages could be devastating.
[GS Note] Common IT Questions - Data Protection
Ross Langham Data Security Solutions , Data Backup , Business Data Management , Common IT QuestionsData backup and disaster recovery is a critical element in every Information Technology plan, and many would argue that it is the most important question to ask. Our Common IT Questions blog series continues today with options to protect your data.
[GS Note] - Don't Just Delete Your Data -- Scrub It!
Ross Langham Data Security Solutions , Business Data Management , IT ConsultingYou always feel good when you can take old computers, external drives or other devices and donate them to Goodwill, a school, or a charitable organization. Someone is sure to benefit from these items, you say to yourself, and you're right. But if those devices still have your company's sensitive data on them, you may be giving away a lot more than you know. And you can't just delete that data, either -- you have to scrub it off of the drive.
[GS Bulletin] WiFi Traffic Open to the World
Ross Langham Data Security Solutions , Wireless Networking , IT ConsultingAccording to the outcome of recent court cases, it may be legal for others to listen in on WiFi traffic over unsecured networks. Check out this post on ZDNet.
[GS Note] - Offsite Backup: Keeping Your Data out of the Danger Zone
Ross Langham Data Security Solutions , Data Backup , Business Data ManagementBelieve it or not, businesses can and do burn to the ground. And even if your comprehensive insurance policy enables you to replace all your damaged IT hardware, the greatest coverage in the world can't get you your data back once it's gone.