The Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act (HIPAA) a legislation which provides security provisions and data privacy, in order to keep patients’ medical information safe. The law has emerged into greater prominence in recent years with the proliferation of health data breaches caused by cyberattacks and ransomware attacks on health insurers and providers. It's good [...]
E-mail encryption is one of the most important aspects of security in organizational networks, personal use, and the Internet. By default, email messages are not secure. They are sent across the Internet in plain text. Hackers who gain unauthorized access to an email account can access attachments, content, and even hijack your entire email account. [...]
We, as individuals or organizations, often need to securely transfer files over the Internet to another person or organization on the Internet. In this post, we will try to get acquainted with the common solutions for this purpose and examine these file transfer methods from a security point of view. Sending a file over the [...]
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation that requires businesses to protect the personal data and privacy of EU citizens for transactions that occur within EU member states. This regulation aims to simplify the regulatory environment for business so both citizens and businesses in the European Union can fully benefit from the digital economy. [...]
Data encryption translates data into another form, or code, so that only people with access to a decryption key or password can read it. Today, encryption is widely used on the internal networks and internet to ensure the sanctity of user information (such as payment data or personal information) that's sent between a browser and a [...]
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is defined as the hosting of desktop environments on a central server. In fact, VDI is a desktop virtualization technology wherein a desktop operating system (OS) - typically Microsoft Windows - runs and is managed in an on-premises or cloud data center. The virtual desktop image is delivered over a network [...]
Intrusion detection is the process of monitoring the events occurring in network and analyzing them for signs of possible incidents, violations, or imminent threats to security policies. These security measures are available as intrusion detection systems (IDS) and intrusion prevention systems (IPS). At result, IDS and IPS are both parts of the network infrastructure. IDS and [...]
No matter how efficient a computer system appears to be, there is always the possibility of a malfunction wiping out valuable data. For this reason, many companies have set up backup systems, designed to recover lost data. It is very important that an organization have at least two backup. a backup in local (onsite backup) [...]
This post is dedicated to malware removal. In this post we are going to tell you how you can find out that your computer has been the victim of malware. Then learn what to do if malware is on your computer. Finally, we have some important security solutions for you that if you use them, [...]