Security
Cyber criminals are always trying to be one step ahead. Stay current on security trends, breakthroughs and developments that can help protect your organization from cyber threats.
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Understanding the Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act – Should Companies Be Allowed to “Hack Back”?
Question: Should companies and computer users in the US be able to strike back actively against hackers? Until very recently, to do so would have been a risky strategy in legal terms. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) of 1986 specifically prohibits individuals form taking retaliatory or defensive actions against cybercriminals, aside from standard
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Does the IoT Bring New Business Security Risks to Your Office?
Bringing Internet of Things (IoT) devices into your workplace can unleash whole new swathes of benefits and opportunities, including increased productivity, efficiency, energy savings, better communications, happier workers, and a lot more besides. But smart devices also present new business security risks as they become the targets of malicious programs and cyberattacks. In today’s world,
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TWiTIoT: This Week in The Internet of Things – Arm-ing the IoT: Rule, Britannia?
Greetings, and welcome. This week, a recap of and some reflections on recent IoT-related announcements centered around one of the world’s leading chipmakers that isn’t Intel or AMD. As always, your thoughts, reactions, and suggestions welcome. Just send a quick email to medortch@dortchonit.com. And for more on the IoT and IIoT, check out “DortchOnIT’s Industrial
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How to Protect Your Personal Information Online
Recent events like the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the introduction of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have thrown the spotlight on issues concerning the protection of personal information online. With the GDPR now in force, consumers and internet users originating from or based in the European Union (EU) now have a greater
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TWiTIoT: This Week in The Internet of Things –Infrastructure Options Expand
Greetings, and welcome. This week, encouraging news of coming enhancements to the global IoT infrastructure – including, we can but hope, consistent, effective cyber security. As always, your thoughts, reactions, and suggestions welcome. Just send a quick email to medortch@dortchonit.com. And for more on the IoT and IIoT, check out “DortchOnIT’s Industrial Internet of Things
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A Guide to Data Recovery – Are you Prepared?
Data loss and corruption can be incredibly devastating for any business or team. There’s the chance it could eliminate hundreds — if not thousands — of hours of work, and compromise vital documents, files and additional data. The best way to deal with such problems is to establish and deploy a data backup plan, well
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TWiTIoT: This Week in The Internet of Things – Better Security for IoT Devices. For Users? Not So Much
Greetings, and welcome. This week, a promising new approach to more interoperability and security for IoT devices, and yet more proof users need help with passwords. Lots of help. Soon. And often. As always, your thoughts, reactions, and suggestions welcome. Just send a quick email to medortch@dortchonit.com. And for more on the IoT and IIoT,
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How IoT And Artificial Intelligence Are Changing Homes
90% of US consumers now own some form of smart home device, which is a testament to the fact that IoT has reached mass adoption in the consumer space. With the introduction of artificial intelligence in IoT devices such as Alexa that can learn the patterns of behaviors in users, more homes will see the combination
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