If you’re an IT Admin, we don’t need to tell you how difficult and demanding your job can be on a daily basis. You’re not only installing network gear and keeping it updated, but you’re also managing everything from clients to applications. Not to mention the demands associated with business growth. When the business grows, so does everything else in the network: the type of uses, devices, and applications. All of that falls on you and your team to install, update, and maintain. While managing these groups of clients has always been challenging, now along comes security to keep you up at night.

With just a few days left before the official kick-off of the 2019 holiday shopping season, it’s easy to get swept up into the magic and excitement that it brings. Especially if that means your business is expecting to see an influx of profit from holiday shoppers. Many retailers use Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday as drivers for business as they offer special promotional deals to shoppers. The Thanksgiving holiday weekend in 2018 pulled in record numbers with $6.22 billion in online Black Friday sales, nearly $18 billion from Small Business Saturday sales, and 7.9 billion on Cyber Monday. Yet the responsibility of keeping shopper data safe and protected is a burden felt in the days and months leading up to the season that many don’t look forward to. How can they when retailers also saw a record number of online retail data breaches in 2018? Unfortunately, cybersecurity isn’t one of those areas where merchants can afford to avoid responsibility.

Another October is coming to a close, and that means it’s time to wrap up another National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. This year’s focus is all about the importance of personal cybersecurity ownership and the proactive steps you can take at home and at work to enhance cybersecurity.

Because most state and local government agencies don’t have millions to spend on cybersecurity, they can be looked at as easy prey for cybercriminals. In this blog, we will discuss one of the top threats facing agencies like yours, what you should consider when creating your cybersecurity strategy, and how a partner like Internetwork Engineering (IE) can help.

The following is a guest post from our partners at Varonis highlighting their OktoberTekfest breakout session.

School routines are back in full swing, and I couldn’t help but draw similarities between how we protect the young ones we send off to school and the corporate assets and data leaving our companies.