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November 15, 2017

Identity Theft’s Reality

ID Agent is excited to offer this guest blog post from Megan Wells. Megan is a data journalist and content strategist at InvestmentZen who has written content on how data theft impacts Americans, technological interventions for personal and commercial finance and content for IBM and NASDAQ. With her examination of costs and the impact of Data Breaches, she shares how detrimental identity theft can be for MSP customers and their employees. Be sure to download her useful Infographic at the link below!

October 17, 2017

Protecting Employee Personal Data Fundamental to Corporate Security

If the keys to your house were sitting visibly outside for someone to take, would you just leave them in hopes that no one breaks in? Not likely. Similarly, the keys to the front door of most organizations are sitting on the Dark Web at the ready for use and exploit by criminal organizations and hackers. In fact, criminals, hacktivists and social hackers obtain and sell hundreds of thousands of stolen credentials on the Dark Web daily. Many times, exposure of employees’ personal credentials can lead to an internal corporate breach, where a compromise can turn into a corporate catastrophe.

September 08, 2017

Equifax’s Giant Security Breach – Inside Job?

Equifax’s giant cybersecurity breach announced yesterday – one of the worst ever – compromised the personal information of almost half the U.S. – potentially 143 million Americans. Residents in the U.K. and Canada were also affected. Based on Equifax’s investigation, the unauthorized access occurred from mid-May through July 2017.

August 03, 2017

NotPetya – a Threat to Supply Chains

Ukraine is a nation under digital siege. Over the past few months, it has suffered through four widespread infrastructure attacks, with the Russian government being suspected as the driving force behind the attacks — although to date, there’s no clear evidence of this.

July 24, 2017

ID Agent Recognized in the 2017 Emerging Vendors List by CRN

ID Agent has been named on the 2017 Emerging Vendors list cultivated by CRN. Because this online magazine is dedicated to all things focused on the IT channel, suppliers and technology integrators, it is an honor to make this list. It identifies a group of businesses that provide the best IT and support elements for their partners and channel programs.

July 20, 2017

The Important Lesson Learned from the U.K. Parliament Cyberattack

The Parliament’s computer network was recently targeted by a brute force attack. Weak password requirements allowed hackers to gain access to 90 of parliaments 650 member’s email accounts. Although IT staff or 3rd party cyber firms can implement strong cyber-security regulations, the members of the House of Commons, or employees at any company are typically the source of a breach. Without knowing it, Members of the Parliament created threats for themselves, that went undetected until it was too late. In order to minimize the damage or the attempt of blackmail, officials temporarily locked members out of their email accounts.

July 06, 2017

What an MSP can do to Protect Their Clients from the Dark Web

Not familiar with the term “Dark Web”? That’s okay, even some of the most sophisticated individuals in the tech space have no idea what the dark web is and how it’s accessed. As an MSP or MSSP, you are doing your part to secure and monitor your client’s network and provide a seamless user experience. However, through no fault of your own, your client’s and their employees are not making your job easier by creating credential-based blind spots that until now were hard to detect and mitigate.

June 26, 2017

MSPs Beware – Dropbox, Google Drive and other Cloud Storage Threats

A Managed Service Provider (MSP) has a lot to worry about within the information technology services they offer. Your clients probably store data that is critical to their continued success on your servers. If their network becomes breached, your network may become susceptible to risk and vice versa. Using cloud storage providers such as Dropbox, Google Drive and other Cloud Storage Threats may increase these chances because of the limited encryption options and the fact that IT will have limited control and usually no visibility.

June 19, 2017

The Biggest Threat to your Network Security: Email Communications

When it comes to protecting your businesses infrastructure, it is safe to assume that you have some form of cyber protection activated. But email communications represent the biggest threat of all, because it takes advantage of the end user, in one form or the other. It generally only requires one misstep from a member of a network to unleash a catastrophic chain of events within that network.

June 16, 2017

63% of Data Breaches Result From Weak or Stolen Passwords

In its recent 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report, Verizon Enterprise confirmed many industry trends that we see at ID Agent every day. The most glaring blind spot for organizations is how stolen credentials are the primary means by which hackers exploit their vital systems.

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