National Backup Day serves as a critical call to action for all organizations, particularly nonprofits, highlighting the importance of consistent data backups. Data is invaluable, and its loss can severely disrupt operations, endanger sensitive information, and diminish trust. Nonprofits as well as other small- and mid-sized-businesses need to recognize that data on individual machines, servers, and … Read more
Protect your personal email to prevent business information compromise. Hackers will try anything to get access to company information, including using your personal email accounts and devices against you. Protecting your work AND personal email from compromise is crucial to maintaining the security of your personal and professional communications and sensitive information.
Vishing, Phishing and Smishing are ways that scammers get a foot hold into your lives and most want to get access to your financial accounts. The three popular ways of fishing for your information are by voice (vishing), email (phishing), and sending text messages (smishing) to your phone. The voice method is the easiest to … Read more
Nonprofit organizations can be particularly vulnerable to fraud. Employees who are passionate about their cause can be potentially disarmed by people who share their interests. Additionally, it can be difficult for organizations that rely heavily on volunteers to provide consistent training against the warning signs of fraud. Nonprofits should be wary of the dangers posed … Read more
With the COVID-19 pandemic posing new challenges for businesses to quickly adapt to an online operating model, cybersecurity attacks are significantly increasing. Non-profits are not immune to cybersecurity attacks. If time is taken to understand the basic steps to combat attacks, your non-profit is less likely to suffer an incident that will cost time, money, … Read more