At PK Tech, we service several industries, but our roots lie deep in CPA firms. Since the beginning, PK Tech has provided IT support for CPA firms, and we’ve learned a few crucial things in the process.
When choosing a portal for your CPA firm, there are several essential things to consider.
What is Microsoft Teams, and how can your business be integrating it? We’re so glad you asked.
Teams is a chat-based collaboration platform that allows easy document sharing, online meetings, and countless more useful features for efficient business communications.
Let’s take a reality check: should you use Chromebooks in your business? Great question.
The simple answer for the majority is no. But let’s break this down more.
Chromebooks, in simple terms, are Chrome (the internet browser) based computers.
A troubling new ransomware trend is gaining momentum. Known as the “pay or get breached” trend (also called the “double extortion” scheme), it gained a foothold in 2020 and is gaining steam as we begin 2021.
With more than 550 incidents in the fourth quarter alone, ransomware attackers have not been shy in adopting the “pay or get breached” scheme.
Passwords. The bane of our existence. Hard to remember. Annoying to reset. At the risk of being compromised at all times.
Good news: change is the works, and it could completely change passwords as we know them.
The current climate is this: password managers like 1Password, LastPass, and Dashlane solve some of the problems by generating strong, unique passwords for each individual account you have.
In early January, President Trump signed the HIPAA Safe Harbor Bill (HR 7898 ) into law. The HIPAA Safe Harbor law amends the HITECH Act, incentivizing HHS to take part in industry best practices for cybersecurity. You can read the full description of the new law here.
Where are we in the world of cybersecurity? It’s easy to miss the cybersecurity threats and attacks happening right in our “backyard”. Our goal at PK Tech is to educate and offer proactive steps for cybersecurity safety. It’s important to be aware--without being afraid--of the cybersecurity threats that are real threats for your business.
We probably sound like broken records at this point, but for the record, we’re not the only ones saying this! Ransomware is here, it’s more prevalent than ever, and most, unfortunately, it’s here to stay in 2021.
Cloud cybersecurity provider Datto recently released the findings of their fifth annual Global State of the Channel Ransomware Report.
Amazingly, Windows 10 Professional out of the box comes with a bunch of useless consumer-grade Apps. Specifically, we’re talking about the “Xbox Game Bar”, “Xbox Live”, and “Xbox Console Companion” Apps. If you’d like to see what we’re talking about, click start and type Xbox to search, it should look like the picture on the right.
In mid-December, we saw an unprecedented cybersecurity attack on the U.S. government that bookended a troubling year on many fronts.
According to official reports, the U.S. Treasury Department, the U.S. Commerce Department, and Homeland Security were hacked by what was suspected to be Russia.
