Author name: Matt Sidman

Next Generation threats, by comparison, do not use conventional methods to reach your electronic assets.  They can disguise themselves as trusted traffic.  They can use legitimate programs – like Outlook or Adobe Acrobat – to run rules to manipulate data on the computer or server.  Next Generation threats can use your own employees to do […]

This is part III of our cyber security blog series. Here we cover what is considered a Conventional Threat. For decades, we’ve all become familiar with the ways we protect from viruses, spam, adware, trojans, and other malware we refer to as conventional threats.  Comparative to new threats like phishing and ransomware, conventional threats are

Cybercrimes pose the greatest threat to companies around the world. Dark web cybercriminals target companies of all sizes in all industries at any given moment. Without warning, your data can be compromised and held hostage by despicable thieves. And it happens more than you may know.  In Part II of our ATP article series, we’ve

Most small businesses – 60%, reportedly – will not survive the year after experiencing a data breach, usually closing doors within 6 months.​ Every day, the IT environments of countless businesses and corporations around the world are under attack. Whether they know it or not, sinister entities are plotting heinous acts aimed towards compromising confidential

On December 13, 2020, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency alerted the general public of a known active exploitation of SolarWinds Orion and FireEye, software that is frequently used to support and monitor computer systems and networks.  This exploitation is currently referred to as Sunburst. Teqworks does not use any SolarWinds or FireEye products