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The trend of “bring your own device(BYOD)” is increasing in popularity as more and more employees use their devices for work purposes. While BYOD can offer many benefits to businesses, such as increased productivity and flexibility, it poses some security risks. To protect your business from these risks, it is essential to have your device policy in place.

Healthcare statistics by HIPAA revealed that healthcare cybersecurity incidents fell by 8% in February 2022 but still faced 46 incidents affecting 2.5 million people.

Cybersecurity is a daunting subject for most small and new businesses. They don’t have the budget to hire the best in the field to take care of their security. These small businesses need practical solutions and advice to protect their business.

The Devices: Allow undock without having to log on setting on laptops and computers is extensively used to provide people with the convenience of undocking their systems without having to log on repeatedly. This comes in handy for portable devices that need to be undocked from the docking station multiple times. You can just hit the eject button and safely get your laptop away from the docking station.

Companies accumulate massive amounts of data, whether it is intellectual property or customer and employee information. Data is a critical asset: it’s undeniable. If your business users have appropriate access to data, they can perform their jobs more efficiently and effectively, and they can analyze the data to derive key business intelligence that drives better business decisions. But if data isn’t protected from breaches, it can also be a liability.

Cyberattack prevention and remediation cost time and money. Are there ways to get a better return on your cybersecurity investments? What business processes or technologies will not only reduce those cyber risks but also save you time or money? This piece addresses those questions with a focus on data breaches.

As organizations are looking to streamline processes and enhance security, pursuing automation in identity and access management is a key area businesses can target. By pursuing automation in identity and access management, IT teams can free up time to work on more important tasks, and reduce the friction required in managing team member and vendor access across necessary accounts, data and applications.

Globally, 67% of companies experience between 21 to 40 insider-related incidents per year, according to Ponemon Institute’s The Cost of Insider Threats 2022 report. The same report reveals that the frequency and cost of insider attacks have increased significantly over the past two years. Insider threats are one of the tougher attacks to predict and prevent, because of the difficulty in identifying insiders.