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IT Insights – Security Posture

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November 2, 2021

If you still have employees working from home, chances are they might unknowingly be creating a gap in your company’s security posture, exposing your entire business network to bad-actor vulnerability. Listen to this 2-minute tip from our president Garrett Graney to assure everyone’s buckled up for safety when working at home.

Video Transcript

Recently, we’ve had the phenomena of work from home with the pandemic, incredibly convenient. And if your employees took home business owned machines, you kept your security posture in place. However, many businesses said no, we can work from any machine from home. And the problem there is, every time an employee uses a home machine to connect to your business network, there is a gap in that security posture.

And it’s an easy gap for a bad actor to take advantage of. What are you doing for cybersecurity, here’s what many businesses are doing. And I still hear it every day today. We have a firewall, we have antivirus, and we’re applying patches on a regular basis. And that was the security posture most businesses needed 10 years ago. today that covers about 25% of what is needed. Let me give you an example. On top of those components, which are a good foundation, you need two factor authentication.

You probably use it today in your banking, if you go to your banking website and you’re accessing your banking accounts, you have two factor authentication using a username and a password. And you’re also providing something that you know or something that you are maybe a fingerprint, maybe face recognition or maybe a special 32nd code that is given to you. There is no panacea there is no one security product that provides the protection that you need. But I would say that two factor authentication will easily add another 20 or 25% to your security posture. If you’re not using it today. Please spend some time look into it. It is one of those great benefits to the cybersecurity that you can provide your business

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