Ransomware, malware, and plain old fashioned con-man style trickery are very real threats that can keep business leaders up at night. While malicious software can cost your company millions and put a big old kink in your day, the truly dastardly [...]
For the 2nd year in row, IT Weapons, a division of Konica Minolta Canada, was named as one of the 50 best Managed IT Companies in Canada by TechnoPlanet.
You can force complex passwords, install drive encryption, and use three different types of security applications, yet, none of that matters unless you tackle the primary cause of security issues: your employees. While typically not a malicious [...]
Whether it is for storage, hosting, Software-as-as-a-service based applications (SaaS), or Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), most businesses today use some form of Cloud services. In fact, Forrester has predicted that more than 50% of global [...]
Only 5 days in 2018 and the business world is in full panic mode as two massive security flaws, Meltdown and Spectre, emerge from the ransomware ashes of 2017. While last year’s ransomware threats like Locky, WannaCry, and Petya and multiple [...]
While still scary, ransomware and other forms of malware are starting to sound like old news. It seems like almost every month, a new, terrifying form of ransomware emerges, only to fall back into the shadows a few days later. While malware, [...]
The race to the cloud has flown through 2017 in style with virtually every business today using some sort of Cloud technology. Whether it is for storage (think Amazon Web Services, DropBox, Google Drive, Azure), business applications [...]
Data backups are a core tenant of any technology program, and with the rise of cloud and SaaS based applications, Managed Cloud Backups have become the new norm for businesses of all sizes when it comes to protecting core business data. Managed [...]
Well, 2017 sure has been fun (sarcasm definitely intended) for Information Security Officers. If you are in charge of ensuring the security of sensitive information, then chances are you haven’t been sleeping so soundly…or at all. In the past [...]
**UPDATED ON OCT. 24TH 2017** Recently, a new security vulnerability known as “Krack Attack” was discovered that affects all modern Wi-Fi networks that use WPA2 personal encryption. Through this vulnerability, hackers may be able to read [...]
