Technology news is always filled with stories of data breaches and hacker activity. The common thread in many of these stories is backdoor access for criminals to capture data and share that with malicious parties. In this article, we focus on the widely-used cloud computing software, Microsoft Azure.

If you’ve never worked with a Managed Service Provider (MSP), you may be wondering what the benefits are of having your technology support covered under one umbrella. Outside of the typical IT assistance, the stigma of a MSP is that it is simply a help desk to respond to incidents or when a team member can’t access their system the way they need to. In actuality, an operative MSP partner has a real benefit for your businesses through precautionary measures and prognostic maintenance.

On average, a malware attack costs a company over $2.5 million (including the time needed to resolve the attack. Malware attacks are when sensitive information is less secure than it should be and cyber criminals take advantage of your position.

Are you protecting against cyber threats on devices you thought weren’t still in use…

From healthcare portals, higher education accounts, credit card processing, logistics, and banking, team members are sharing data at all hours of the day. And the amount of data stored in web applications – whether customer information, images, text, and sensitive email communication – has increased exponentially.

In the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, security experts have been observing cyberattacks targeting Ukrainian government departments with overwhelming levels of Internet traffic and data-wiping malware.