Accenture/Ponemon 2019 Cost of Cybercrime Study

https://www.accenture.com/t20190305T185301Z__w__/us-en/_acnmedia/PDF-96/Accenture-2019-Cost-of-Cybercrime-Study-Final.pdf#zoom=50 Click the link above for the annual Cost of Cybercrime Study by Accenture and the Ponemon Institute. This comprehensive study gives a deep dive into the realities of business in 2019-that is, IT dependent.  Your business should be looking forward instead of backwards when it comes to security and prevention for your most valuable…

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Shame on VEEAM!

https://www.zdnet.com/article/data-management-firm-veeam-mismanages-own-data-leaks-440m-email-addresses/ Check out the details in the above article by Charlie Osborne at ZDNet.com to learn how a major backup and disaster recovery company left millions of user account and other data openly accessible to the internet. At Monarchy IT, we choose vendors with security in mind, and as such, protect our clients from vendors…

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Office & Outlook 2007 are gone!

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-just-ended-support-for-office-2007-and-outlook-2007/ Check out the article by Liam Tung over at ZDNet from a couple weeks ago for details. For those who may be unaware, Microsoft has a 10 yr. support cycle for most of it’s software.  The first 5 years are Standard support, and the last 5 are termed Extended support, where only security updates…

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Cloud Security Trends: Winter is Coming

https://blog.redlock.io/cloud-security-trends-and-cloud-threat-defense Check out this report from RedLock on their recent cloud security findings.  Needless to say, it leaves a lot to be desired. While “the cloud” has been all the rage in the small/medium business space for the last 5 years or so, the implementation of security over these services is still evolving. At Monarchy…

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Don’t Get Hooked: How to Recognize and Avoid Phishing Attacks

https://digitalguardian.com/blog/dont-get-hooked-how-recognize-and-avoid-phishing-attacks-infographic Check out the link above to a great info-graphic on “phishing” attacks by Nate Lord at Digital Guardian. At Monarchy IT, our top priority is the security of our clients’ systems.  But we also have a duty to people at-large who would benefit from information such as what’s provided in this info-graphic.  We hope…

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Digital Trends for Business

http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-digital-trends-for-business/ Check out this great article over at zdnet.com by Sven Denecken for UberTech.  In it, he touches on the recurring theme that we at Monarchy IT have been pushing to our clients, which is business technology/digital transformation. The four main pillars of business plans for tomorrow are customer-centricity, operational excellence, global networks of commerce,…

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