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Online Education

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12 Jul 2018

What is the Future of Higher Education?

E-learning is continuously growing without an end in sight. More and more students are enrolling in online courses because, quite frankly, they are more convenient. We have all seen the growth of online education in the past few years, but where exactly is it going?
phone security

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6 Jul 2018

Seven Steps to Protect Your Smartphone

Our previous blog posts have examined the various cyber-based threats posed to Smartphones.  In this post, we examine seven steps that you can take to help mitigate those risks:
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3 Jul 2018

Adidas Data Breach

Breach of security is a common topic in the news today, especially when it involves compromising the safety of consumers’ private information. Many consumers became more aware of the significant effects of data breaches earlier this year when the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal broke out; although, we have seen many large data breaches in the past.
Malware

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27 Jun 2018

Be Aware of Malware

Cybersecurity is a growing field in this developing technology era; it is something that any organization has to pay attention to because of the many cyber threats present in today’s society. Read the following blog post written by Chris Brook for Digital Guardian about potential, and very destructive, malware threats.
smartphone

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21 Jun 2018

The top security threats to smartphones – Part 3

In this post, we continue our series on the top threats to Smartphones in 2018, with a brand-new kind of cyber threat:  Ransomware.
Smartphone

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4 Jun 2018

The top security threats to smartphones – Part 2

In this post, we continue our series on the top threats to Smartphones in 2018. Here is what you need to know about Network Spoofing and Phishing Attacks.
Pillars

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23 May 2018

Pillars of a secure organization

Columns, or pillars, have been an architectural staple since as early as 2600 B.C. Every significant civilization of the Iron Age (1300 B.C. to 100 B.C.) used pillars in their architecture. Even to this day, in many instances, those pillars of the Iron Age have proven to withstand the test of time.
heavy phone usage

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17 May 2018

The top security threats to smartphones

What are the top threats to smartphones in 2018?  There are many of them, and we will be examining them in detail over several blog posts.  We begin with Data Leakage and Unsecured Wi-Fi Hotspots.
World Data

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2 May 2018

Five tips to avoiding a data breach

Small business owners always have a lot on their minds. They are consumed by thoughts about delivering great customer service and keeping products and services on the cutting edge to keep up with competitors.
Face the music

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26 Apr 2018

Time to face the online learning music

The phrase, “time to face the music” started appearing in American literature and verbiage in the mid-19th century. The origin of this phrase is unclear, but there are two good possibilities. The first likely origin came from the tradition of a disgraced military officer being drummed out of their regiment. The second theory is that it’s referring to the moment before an actor would go on stage and face the orchestra pit.
keys

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16 Apr 2018

An introduction to the public key infrastructure

Just using Private Keys is no longer the norm in cryptography today – using a combination of both Public and Private Keys is, and it’s known as “Asymmetric Cryptography.” A type of Asymmetric Cryptography that is deployed widely today is known as the “Public Key Infrastructure,” or PKI for short.
Infrastructure

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3 Apr 2018

An introduction to public and private keys

As discussed in a previous blog post, cryptography is the science of scrambling and unscrambling a message while it is in transit.  The primary purpose of this is to keep the message content safe, in case it is intercepted by a malicious third party.