#COVID19: Using TECHNOLOGY to collaborate – Recommended Tools and Winning Habits

Leave a Comment / COMPUTER SECURITY / By IFIS / May 31, 2020 May 31, 2020

Tuesday, June 2nd 2020, 12pm Register Here When was the last time you wondered how to eliminate barriers created by time and location against you and your team? To register for the upcoming webinar, Click Here With 42% of Uganda’s population having access to the internet today, going digital is critical for maintaining team cohesion. …

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How to ensure safe work from Home Cyber-Hygiene

Leave a Comment / COMPUTER SECURITY, CYBER DEFENCE, CYBER SECURITY / By Peter Magemeso / April 17, 2020 April 17, 2020

Looking at the array of technical countermeasures available to protect confidential data and computer systems has certainly expanded as compared to the last decade. Most corporate IT departments now allocate a significant portion of their budgets to information security. What isn’t clear is whether systems are more secure as a result. It is now a …

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File System Access Controls

Leave a Comment / COMPUTER SECURITY / By IFIS / December 18, 2019 December 18, 2019

I.T professionals are always responsible for ensuring that the data on the systems they manage is safe beyond a reasonable doubt from the risk of data breaches. They ensure this security through various means for example encryption, use of passwords, setting up network segments, among others. In this article, let us talk about a form …

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PHISHING, THE GREATEST FORM OF CYBER ATTACK

Leave a Comment / COMPUTER SECURITY, CYBER DEFENCE, CYBER SECURITY / By IFIS / August 19, 2019 November 4, 2019

If you access the Internet or use WhatsApp, Email, Skype and any social media app, you are vulnerable to phishing. Derived from the fishing hook, phishing cyber-attack vector tricks victims into clicking on links that appear to come from genuine sources. In 2019, the phishing attack is projected to be one of the top schemes …

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Securing your devices

COMPUTER SECURITY / By IFIS / May 28, 2019 May 29, 2019

Man is not an island, and as such we seek to interact more and more with each other. This has led to a level of intercommunication through the internet that hasn’t been seen before. According to ABI Research, there will be over 30 billion devices connected on the Internet by 2020. Today, our everyday devices …

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Is Employee Cyber Security Awareness Inevitable?

Leave a Comment / COMPUTER SECURITY / By Admin / May 28, 2019 May 29, 2019

Gone are the times when our only security concern was making sure that our doors and windows were locked. Due to rise in technology and the growth of online activity, the manner in which we now work has changed, putting not only our personal data at risk but also business data at risk too. We …

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Are you a WannaCry accomplice?

Leave a Comment / COMPUTER SECURITY / By Paul K / April 25, 2019 November 29, 2019

A simple network scanning following a client request; exposed several computers on the network vulnerable to WannaCry attack. Unfortunately, the computer hygiene for most companies is poor. Staff are lazy. They don’t want to learn how to keep their computers secure. They are fast to connect to the Internet to access their social media accounts. …

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Data Breaches: Are you a Victim?

Leave a Comment / COMPUTER SECURITY / By IFIS / February 18, 2019 February 25, 2019

Data Breaches: Are you a victim? In a world that is using the internet for all sorts of activities, there are concerns that various users have about the cyber space and how data confidentiality is handled by the applications, websites and gadgets that we use on a day to day basis.

Combating Cyber Security Threats

Leave a Comment / COMPUTER SECURITY / By Admin / September 11, 2018 September 11, 2018

New cybersecurity threats and breaches emerge each year. Even with unprecedented vulnerabilities such as Spectre and Meltdown, the approach to dealing with the risks they pose is the same as ever: sound risk management with systematic processes to assess and respond to risks. Here are considerations for cyber risk management. Risk management is the ongoing …

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HOW HACKERS CAN HIJACK YOUR CELLPHONE ACCOUNTS

Leave a Comment / COMPUTER SECURITY / By Admin / September 10, 2018 September 10, 2018

Fraudsters have figured out how to break in to online accounts protected by two-factor authentication where the authenticating device is your mobile phone. They don’t steal the phone; they simply hijack the phone number. This enables them to intercept those one-time verification codes sent to that mobile number by text, email, or phone call. Armed …

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