Tips for Keeping Company Data Secure with a Remote Workforce

More people than ever are working from home, and it looks like this trend will continue for the foreseeable future. Beyond the simple matter of health and safety, many employees appreciate the flexibility of remote work. It also allows your ...

Cybersecurity - Best Practices for Businesses with Employees Working From Home

Cybersecurity for businesses is more essential than ever as members of the workforce transition to working from home more permanently. However, the shift to the digital workplace is not without risks, in fact - 68 percent of business leaders have ...

What Is the Dark Web and Why is It So Dangerous?

When you hear the term “dark web” what comes to mind? Is it teenage boys sitting in their parents’ basement hacking away at a computer screen? Sure, that’s the image portrayed in movies. But if that’s your idea, you couldn’t ...

Most WiFi Routers Riddled With Dangerous Security Flaws

Let's face it, most small to medium-size businesses don't spend a lot of time and resources on ensuring their office's WiFi routers are as safe as they can be. In fact, many of the businesses we come in contact with ...

What Are Password Managers and How Do They Work?

Like many people, you probably start your workday each morning by logging into a computer with your username and password to get access to your company network.  Then you start up email and enter your credentials for that program. And ...

Are You Using a VPN for Employees Working from Home?

Working from home amid the COVID-19 global pandemic has put the spotlight on many logistical and IT questions for companies. As we make our way through the next few weeks of continued stay-at-home orders renew vigilance on IT security will ...

Your Team Working from Home? Make Sure to Start Every Day with a Morning Huddle!

Unfortunately, the wide-ranging effects of the Coronavirus have forced much of the American workforce into work-from-home situations for the foreseeable future.  Most forward-thinking businesses are going into this unchartered territory already with plans in place that will cause little disruption ...

BKS Systems Marks 20 Years of Technology!

We live in an amazing age. Without exaggeration, it could easily be said the advancements in technology in the past 20 years have done more to change the world through commerce, communication and connectivity than any other previous time. And ...

Why Are Local Governments the Target of Ransomware?

There’s no question about it: Governments are falling victim to ransomware attacks more than ever before. Such attacks on local governing bodies are nothing new. One of the first victims of contemporary ransomware was the police department of Swansea, a ...

How to Prevent Ransomware Attack

We hear routinely in the news that a major corporation or government agency has had its data integrity compromised, with millions of pieces of personal data accessed. In these cases the criminals behind the attack hope to get money by ...