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Go Phish – Phishing Scams Still Alive And Well

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It may seem like phishing scams have been around forever, and people are more and more aware of them. So surely by now businesses and tech savvy individuals have stopped falling for them? Not so. Phishing scams are still alive and well.

US Healthcare Providers Phished

This past May, the Oregon State Hospital fell victim to a phishing scam, and the Medical Oncology Hematology Consultants disclosed a past phishing scam.

In Oregon, the phishing scam gave hackers access to names, dates of birth, medical record numbers, diagnoses, and treatment care plans. Even though they plan to notify individuals within 4 – 6 weeks, that leaves victims exposed and unsuspecting for that period of time.

In June 2018, an untrained employee at the Medical Oncology Hematology Consultants group fell victim. The breach wasn’t disclosed until May 2019. That’s an unsettling amount of time for people to be unaware their information may have been exposed. Names, social security numbers, government IDs, financial data, dates of birth, and medical records may have been leaked.

Canadians Fall For Phishing Scams Too

In November and December 2018, BC credit union Coast Capital Savings had hundreds of thousands of dollars stollen after several of their members were phished. Phishing occurs on mobile devices too, as people responded to text messages asking for login information.

How Can I Protect My Business From Getting Phished?

Just because you’re intelligent doesn’t mean you can’t get phished! The best way to protect your company is with training and education. Check out our prior blog post about other tips to keep yourself and your employees from being phished.

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Encouraging and Enabling Collaboration in the Modern Workplace

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Is your IT department the gatekeeper or the enabler of collaboration? All too often, IT falls into the trap of giving permission to use productivity tools instead of finding out what employees need to work together better, then facilitating those capabilities.

In this article, the author poses the important question: “Are we the gatekeeper to employees collaborating or are we enablers and champions?” and discusses the benefits of moving IT to an enabler-focused mentality.

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Razer plays to win, gains advantage in global gaming industry with Microsoft 365

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Having a singular platform for collaboration and teamwork means that the IT department at gaming-laptop company, Razer, can empower their people. Razer wants their employees to do their very best work at a very high standard. That means they need to communicate and share files easily.

At Results Matter Cloud Services, we know how to help you plan and adopt the collaboration tools you need to modernize your workplace and achieve more with teamwork. Contact us today to learn more.

A Paperless Way of Working Dawns for Czech Water Engineering Services Leader

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PAVELKA-VTP is a Czech family water engineering firm that found itself still working in paper operations despite 20 years of rapid growth. In the video, you’ll learn how they were able to leverage Microsoft Dynamics and Office 365 to empower their highly-mobile engineer force with all of the data and solutions to complete a job on their mobile devices anywhere. Does their situation sound familiar to you? Contact Results Matter Cloud Services so we can help you drive collaboration and productivity among your workforce with Office 365.

2019 Resolutions for Cyber Security – How Are You Doing?

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Is your team educated, using 2FA, and clicking cautiously?

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Office 365 Helps Solo Entrepreneur Scale His Brand

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We’re excited to show you how #Office365, a productivity tools that lets you do your best work, gives Bryce McDonald what he needs to do his best work.


He is a solo entrepreneur who relies on an extensive network of vendors and partners to help him scale DAY 1 Wake, his wakesurf board making business, out to the world. No matter your size, business or industry, Results Matter Cloud Services can help you work easily and flexibly, just like Bryce. Check it out!

These tools need to always be up-to-date. They also need to have the information that matters most to you, available and accessible – anywhere, anytime.

5 Cyber Security Tactics for 2019

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Cyber security issues were more severe than last year. The number of attacks and breaches increased as did the tools and processes for defending against them.

The number of police-reported cybercrimes in Alberta has increased by 185% between 2014 and 2017, according to a recent Statistics Canada report. This represents the largest increase in Canada.

Here are some of the numbers for 2018:

    • Marriott Starwood Hotels reservation system, personal information of 500 million customers over four years
    • Bell Canada hackers accessed personal information of around 100, 000 customers
    • Bank of Montreal and CIBC’s Simplii Financial were hacked
    • Ransomware attacks on the municipalities of Wasaga Beach and Midland, Ontario, along with Mekina, Quebec

More challenges require us to adopt multiple tactics.

Cyber security spending is increase at a rate of between 9 and 12 percent each year.

  1. Have a Plan: Know how you will recover from ransomware because we are all targets.
  2. Create a Security Culture: Make security a core value. Building security in at the start, leaders that are engaged, and holding teams accountable for compliance are part of creating the culture.
  3. Adopt MFA: Multi-factor authentication is needed beyond more than just VPNs and privileged accounts.
  4. Use a Password Manager: This will ensure unique passwords across platforms and ensure business credentials are different from personal ones.
  5. IT and Business Aligned: Ensure the team managing your IT security has solutions aligned with the RTO (recovery time objective) and RPO (recovery point objective) that meet your business needs.

We have to fight against complacency and keep working at it.

 

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Cyber Security Awareness Month – Week 2, Buy Safe

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The theme for week 2 was Buy Secure. It is important to buy devices and applications from suppliers that are reptubable. It is important to figure out if you can trust the app developer and to have a process for evaluating applications.  Learn more at Stay Safe Online or Get Cyber Safe from the Government of Canada.
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October Is Cyber Security Awareness Month

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The theme for week 1 was cyber security is our shared responsibility. Bringing this topic up more right can have a big payoff. It is easy to get complacent with the Facebook breach from last week for example. We have to keep at and be consistent in our message of the sensible things we can all do to be more secure. Learn more at https://staysafeonline.org/.
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