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Tag: Cyber Security

Leadtec’s cyber security blog offers the information and tips we find relevant to the keeping your business secure.

Cyber Security: Growing Challenges.

26th of June 2024

Cyber Attacks: Growing Challenges.

Cyber-attacks are a pervasive concern that impacts individuals, businesses, and government entities alike, and the increasing reliance on technology has made the threat of cyber-attacks more widespread, with various types of attacks such as malware, data breaches, and denial of service (DoS) assaults posing significant risks. Businesses are having to improve the importance of cybersecurity professionalism to ensure they can stay secure against growing problems.

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Protecting Your Business Against the Most Common Cyber Threats: Malware, Phishing, and Ransomware.

2nd of November 2023

Protecting Your Business Against the Most Common Cyber Threats.

Cyber threats are deliberate attempts to access or harm a computer or network system, potentially resulting in financial loss or the theft of sensitive information. These attacks can severely damage a business's reputation. In this article, we explore some of the common cybersecurity threats and offer a few of the best practices recommended by our experts to mitigate the cyber risks your business may face.

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Why are IT systems still getting hacked?

19th of February 2021

Why are IT systems still getting hacked?

With the pace of technology developments and the increasing number of security devices and solutions why are system breaches as common today as they were 15 years ago and IT system still being hacked? Well from my experience the answer would be the constant component that was used 15 years ago and today. The IT professional, support engineer, consultant or any other name you wish to call your IT person that installs and maintains the systems. In theory as technology advances and improves it should be even more difficult to be able to breach a company’s security. I guess you could say that the methods that the hackers are using are also developing keep the cat and mouse game advancing constantly. Which to a certain degree would be correct, however from experience of working with large national companies and smaller organisations the answer may be much simpler than this.

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Maximum Protection from Cloud managed Anti-virus

18th of February 2021

Why a Manged Anti-Virus is paramount.

IT Security threats are always a hot topic with companies getting hacked and systems taken down regularly or with people’s personal financial details being stolen. However, most of these attacks can be prevented by taking some simple precautions and ensuring you run a well-supported antivirus / threat prevention solution. The way criminals now access your information and systems are getting more and more complex. However by ensuring you use complex passwords and always install the latest software updates for your devices. Combined with a good antivirus solution will help protect you and your systems from security threats.

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