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Focus on Security: Vetting Your Supply Chain

In business, trends often start at the top. The largest companies are the first to adopt new practices, and once they have been refined and proven effective, the ideas trickle down to smaller organizations. That’s certainly the case with cybersecurity.

Supply chain security

The world’s largest organizations recognized the value of data early, taking steps to secure their systems and information. Those same companies have been the first to explore risk in their supply chains, asking subcontractors and suppliers to prove that they meet cybersecurity standards. There’s no need to wait on this one—it’s a practice every company should adopt now.

Understanding the industry push for security can be the why for vetting your supply chain, while simple guidelines provide the how.…

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Security for The Small Business: Cybersecurity Training Best Practices

People are a problem in cybersecurity and amplified in small businesses. Fixing that problem is more of an art than a science, as different techniques work for different companies. How do you prepare your employees to be the first line of defense against cybersecurity attacks? Using best practices from across public and private sector organizations.

Cybersecurity

As the owner of an SMB cybersecurity services company, I’ve gathered proven tips to help you establish – then mature – a cybersecurity training program for your staff.

The Culture Connection

Having a military background, information security has been drilled into my brain from day one.…

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How to Grow your Small Business: Lessons Learned

Companies change, morph, and, if you’re lucky, grow. Millions of businesses have been launched from a single idea and heaps of hope to make it big someday. But as we all know, in between the idea and the payout, there’s a whole lot of work to be done. Growing a business takes effort.

Business growth

Following a year of pandemic mayhem, my company shifted resources to meet the demands of an evolving market. We created a cybersecurity division that saw rapid growth and expanded our staff by more than 40 percent. Along the way, lessons were learned.

As we enter into an uncertain economic year, with increasingly competitive and dynamic aspects at play, you might have growth plans in mind.…

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