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Healthcare Industry Projected to Spend Over $65B in Cyber Security in the Next 5 Years

By Kayla Elliott / April 26, 2021 December 29, 2021

The healthcare industry has become one of the primary targets for cyber security attacks, and they know it. Therefore, in an attempt to block cyber criminals from attacking their facilities, the healthcare industry plans to increase their cyber security budgets. According to the Herjavec Group, in the next five years, medical facilities will spend over …

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Cyber Security Hygiene Affects Network and Endpoint Security with Application Whitelisting

Application Whitelisting – Our Nation’s Solution to the Cyber Security Crisis

By PC Matic Cybersecurity / January 17, 2021 February 15, 2022

Application Whitelisting–Our Nation’s Solution? Application Whitelisting Cybersecurity. Never in our history has cyber security been a bigger threat than it is now. Whether it is our computers, smart phones, tablets, televisions, smart watches, etc., they’re all at risk. Malware and ransomware threats are becoming an increasing menace. How can we possibly secure our data against …

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Keep Your Windows Operating System Updated

By Kayla Elliott / April 13, 2020 April 14, 2020

Does Your OS Need To Be Updated? We say this all the time — is your Windows operating system updated? Yet, many PC users either don’t know why it’s important or how to check for updates. Let’s start with the first. Windows updates are issued for two reasons 1) to patch known security issues, and …

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Ransomware Is Not a Detect & Respond Issue

By Kayla Elliott / February 12, 2020 October 1, 2021

A vast majority of today’s cyber security solutions are failing. Many cyber security vendors are misguided when it comes to cyber security protection. One of the biggest “buzz phrases” in the security world is detect and respond. Therefore, cyber security vendors are deploying an endpoint detect and respond (EDR) component to their existing products. To …

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