The coronavirus pandemic has forced much of the world's workforce to perform business tasks at home. An at-home workforce is beneficial to productivity, but it opens up many more cybersecurity risks to the organization. Common threats such as phishing and social engineering are more effective on a work-from-home user, but you can take steps to protect your business data from attackers. | Read More →

Application firewalls have replaced many older layer 3 firewalls. An application (layer 7 of the OSI model) firewall can read and analyze much more information than just a port and IP address from Internet traffic. If you want to implement cybersecurity on your network including protection from DDoS attacks, an application firewall has many benefits. | Read More →

Having an API is a great marketing tool for site owners. Developers pay a subscription fee to use your data in their own application projects. These third-party web development projects can boost your site's brand visibility, but API owners must take precautions to protect user data. OAuth can be used to work with proper authentication and authorization standards for data privacy. | Read More →

Every good disaster recovery plan has a good backup schedule. Database backups ensure that your organization doesn't lose a critical productivity component and strengthens business continuity. The first question most business owners ask is how often backups should be performed for disaster recovery efforts. | Read More →

A new feature in Google Chrome lets users know that their passwords have been exposed on the internet. This feature helps defend against phishing attacks. Although receiving this message means that your password has already been exposed, it could save you from losing money to an attacker who can authenticate into a site and use your credentials to receive stolen merchandise on your credit card. | Read More →

AES and SHA are two cryptographically secure ways to turn cleartext into ciphertext. Ciphertext is the hashed or encrypted data that is unreadable to humans, so it protects sensitive data whether it's stored in a database or passed over the internet. Before determining your cryptographic solutions during web development, you should understand the difference between the two algorithms. | Read More →