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Bits, Bytes & Insights
Practical Technology Guidance. Real World Security Insight.
Explore hundreds of articles covering IT, cybersecurity, compliance, and business technology—written to educate, inform, and help you make better business decisions.
- Actionable Advice
- No Sales Pitch
- Real Experience Behind Every Post
👇 Practical guidance you can actually use—no fluff, just experience driven insight.
Doxxing: What Small Business Owners Need to Know to Stay Protected
As a small business owner, your personal and professional lives are often deeply intertwined. Your name, contact details, and even your home address might be tied to your business licenses, website domains, or social media accounts. That makes you a prime target for a growing cyber threat: doxxing.
Doxxing is when someone deliberately exposes your private information online without your permission. This can lead to harassment, identity theft, or even threats to your physical safety and it’s not just a problem for celebrities or Fortune 500 CEOs. Over 11 million Americans have already been affected.
Let’s break down what doxxing is, why it’s a real risk for small business owners, and how you can protect yourself and your business.
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Making Ongoing Risk Management an Operational Standard
No business today is 100% secure from cyber threats and more businesses are waking up to this reality now more than ever before. It’s no wonder cybersecurity investment in 2020 is pegged to grow by 5.6% to reach nearly $43.1 billion in value.1 With cyber attacks...
Security – Do You Know Your Digital Risk?
Rapid technological advancement and rising global connectivity is reshaping the way the world is functioning. From higher productivity to improved customer satisfaction, technology has played a critical role in the growth of businesses across the world. The...
21 Questions to Determine if Your MSP is Ready for Prime-Time or Setting the Stage for Cybersecurity Problems
This article was written by Ryan Heidorn, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Steel Root. The article originally appeared in CISOMAG on November 20, 2020. ITNS Consulting has been allowed to re-post this content in its entirety with Ryan’s expressed permission. As if...
Email Security: The Dangers of the Inbox
Every now and then, an email with a catchy subject line appears in your inbox and you end up clicking on it, either because you’re curious about the subject line or because you assume the sender is trustworthy. Unfortunately, this is how most cyber attacks tend to...
Securing Your Remote Workers
Over the last few years, we have seen several tech companies, such as Buffer, Todoist and Help Scout, to name a few, switch to a fully remote or partial work setup. Most of these companies spent months preparing for the switch by training their employees, setting up...
New Year, New Risks for IT & Data Security
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything about the world as we know it. Just as we started embracing new practices like sanitizing, social distancing and remote working, the pandemic has also forced us to embrace systemic changes in the ways we deal with cyber...
Ransomware is on the rise again!
You've been in business for several years and you’ve put endless hours into cultivating great relationships with customers and vendors alike. You genuinely care about how you’re viewed in the community and strive to be recognized among the best at what you do. Maybe...
Security Awareness and Due Diligence
Spring is here and Security Awareness is on the rise. Many companies take this time of year to review their current Data Security, Risk Management, and Regulatory Compliance status and look for ways to improve. This is a necessary step of proper Security Management....
What is a Vulnerability Assessment, and why do I need one?
As a Service Provider that specializes specifically in Information Security, we get asked this question a lot… and rightfully so, because it’s become extremely critical to every business in our modern society. Let’s start with taking a close look at the “why” portion...
What’s worse than getting hacked?
What’s worse than getting hacked? How about the "failure to detect intrusions" in the first place? InfoTrax Systems is just one of the latest examples of such an impressively bad security oversight. To be clear about the extent of the “oversight”, this company was...
What is the Cost of Downtime?
Most businesses can find a way to deal with whatever life throws at them as long as they can continue to do business. What happens when something impacts that ability? When a business cannot continue to operate and perform normal business functions, the company's...
10 Cybersecurity Questions You Should Be Asking Your IT Vendor
Many businesses use third-party IT cybersecurity vendors that, host, store, process, or access information records, and supply management of the technology infrastructure related to their organization. A collaboration between your company and a Managed IT Services...
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