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January 2012
Greetings!
The end of every year brings us the "Best of 20XX" Issues and the New Year ushers in the predictions for the coming year. I have put together a quick read of some of the issues facing information technology for the small and medium business market. I am not a wizard, but based on reading some of the predictions that are being made, I would suggest that being forewarned will provide you with a strategic advantage for your business.
Predicting future threats can be a hit-or-miss exercise for a security research organization. Certainly it is interesting to put on our wizard hats and prognosticate about what may happen in the coming months, but how much do threats really change each year? The past 12 months were a transformative year in many ways, but were these transformations revolutionary or evolutionary? We saw great changes in mobile threats, hacktivism, client-side exploitation, social-media exploitation, and targeted attacks. Many of these changes and trends will continue to influence the threats landscape for years to come.
Here is what the FCC Recommends for proactive Managers and Business Owners!
The FCC published a list of "Ten Cybersecurity Tips for Small Businesses" earlier this year, which you can accesshere(pdf). In case you haven't seen it, however, here is a blog that highlights the 10 pointers below with its own take on the various tips and links for further reading.
Is the cloud perfect? No. Is it right for every solution and every business? No. But that said, the rate and pace of technological change are in overdrive, and the need for businesses to harness new technology-based solutions-social, mobile, analytics, etc.-to maintain a business edge is rising.
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Read, check it out and distribute- and above all, protect your users. Visit our website for more information- and checkout our blog for up to date information!
Through our relationship with Stratosphere Networks, I would like to offer you 2 hours of tech time for free! Some companies offer you a glorified sales call. We are offering 2 hours of a technician time so you can see how good Stratosphere is. Let them analyse your network for security - or anti-virus - or malware. Have them fix a problem. You decide. It's worth about $360 - so use it wisely.
