2019 started off with a bang for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) when the media got wind of a major security breach. Within days, the country was in an uproar about FEMA’s lax security practices. They hadn’t been hacked. It wasn’t even an “inside job” in the traditional sense. An employee had merely sent […]
Growth gives businesses the freedom to understand just how much can be improved. It might be the way you file taxes; it might be hiring and firing practices. Small and Mid-sized business executives have to understand and execute many skills every day, but some of these can and should be outsourced to professionals. It is […]
This month, we get to know Danielle Thompson, a system specialist at PRN. Danielle has been with us since October 2018 but has been in IT for over 12 years. Before coming to PRN, Danielle worked as a System Technician at ATA, Anaren, PRN, and Raymour and has been a field support tech at Raymour […]
The healthcare industry has been and remains one of the most attacked by cyber criminals. 2015 was a particularly bad year. Over 100 million healthcare records were compromised, according to an IBM Cyber Security Intelligence Index, making the industry the most attacked that year. Those records were taken from more than 8,000 devices in 100 […]
Until recently, law firms and especially legal services offices were rarely targeted by nefarious organizations. That state of relative peace changed drastically in January, when a hacker group, “Dark Overlord” threatened dozens of law firms to expose confidential information regarding the slew of litigation and suits resulting from the September 11th terrorist attacks. Dark Overlord […]
This month, we get to know Andrew Purviance, a Systems Technician here at Platte River Networks. Andrew has been with us since May of 2018 and works as a deployable technician so he gets to do everything that is done in-house like remote support and new hardware setups, but he also gets to work onsite […]
This month on our employee spotlight, we had the chance to learn a little bit about Samantha Johnson, a client resource coordinator here at Platte River Networks. Samantha has been at PRN for five months and enjoys helping people resolve their technical issues and relieve their stress. Her greatest joy is when she is able to help someone […]
Financial services experienced the highest volume of security incidents in both 2017 and 2018, according to the IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index. Attacks are expected to increase for smaller franchised retailers, along with those businesses with distributed infrastructure. Credit unions, on average, spent $362,000 to address these merchant data breaches; this figure does not take […]
In 2016, Manufacturing became one of the most frequent targets of cybercrime, according to a special report by IBM. Since then, we have watched as businesses large and small have fallen victim to worms, viruses, malware, and ransomware targeting Industrial Control Systems (ICS). In fact, the frequency of these attacks grew in the first half […]
