Election Day in the United States is coming up quick on November 6th. It doesn’t matter what your thoughts or opinions on U.S. politics are–the fact remains that millions of Americans will be using the technology available at polling places to cast their ballots, and if this technology isn’t secured properly, the integrity of the...
Simply put, there are too many threats that can come in through an Internet connection for them to continue doing otherwise. The past year provides plenty of anecdotal proof of this fact, as a quick glance back can show. “Every business in operation today needs to have some kind of comprehensive network security.” In...
2017 saw an unprecedented rise in ransomware and spear phishing. Many companies running older anti-spam or email security systems found themselves in an extremely vulnerable spot. The legacy solutions didn’t have the horsepower or smarts to fend off these new types of attacks thus allowing the threats to float right into many users email boxes...
In today’s world with the constant threat of ransomware, these old firewalls simply do not have what it takes to protect your network and your data. (Read our article on Ransomware) Everyone has heard the term firewall. Some will think of the local firewall on your computer, such as the “windows firewall”, commonly...
“With all the current regulations for the financial sector, HIPAA, and Law firms, etc. ransomware or other viruses can pose a huge risk in both business operations as well as liability.” What is it? Ransonware is a virus that encrypts your data thus making it unusable. In order to decrypt your data you must pay...
In the second part of this series we will focus on what you should be doing to protect yourself. When you break down the main guidelines of HIPAA security rule it falls into three main components: administrative, physical, and technical. All three of these are designed to make sure practices are doing everything within...
As HIPAA, along with all of its guidelines, acts, rules and acronyms associated with the various dates can seem very overwhelming to most, in this article we will attempt to cut to the core of the matter and try to be a clear-cut as possible. We, under no circumstance, claim that this article contains every...
Is your Organization Still Running Windows XP & Windows Server 2003? You may have heard that running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 after Microsoft stopped supporting them is a dangerous idea, but did you understand why it’s so dangerous? We want to explain the major risks that make running unsupported operating systems dangerous so...
What is Crypto / Ransomware? “Paying the ransom is the only way that you can get your files back – unless you have working backups!” Ransomware is malicious software that infects your computer using a variant of the Trojan virus. The software encrypts files on your local and mapped network drives, rendering their contents...
Don't Let Scammers Bypass your Security Before we go into our Best Practices, let’s define “Phishing” so we are all on the same page. “Phishing is defined as the illegal attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and occasionally, indirectly, money), often for malicious reasons, by masquerading as a...
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Located in Ferndale, Fuse Technology Group is the premier provider of Business IT Services. Providing business computer support to hundreds of clients in Detroit, Troy, Southfield, Royal Oak, Birmingham and throughout the state of Michigan.
