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10 things I know about preventing ID theft

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Michelle Drolet

10. Use cash or gift cards The threat of identity theft is reduced dramatically if you don't use your credit card for all your purchases, so consider using cash or even gift cards to pay your way.

Towerwall listed among “20 Most Promising Security Consulting Companies”

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Michelle Drolet

Also named to CRN’s “Women in the Channel” and “The Power 50” BOSTON – May 12, 2014 – Towerwall (www.towerwall.com), an IT security services provider for small to mid-size businesses, today announced it was selected for inclusion in a list of the 20 “Most Promising Enterprise Security Consulting Companies.” The list was compiled by the editors of CIO Review, a magazine published in Fremont, Calif. “Presently, the time is apt to identify some of the right security players in the market. Wefalse

Reminder: Please join us at the Information Security Summit 2014

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Michelle Drolet

Please save the date and plan to join us for this timely forum on what you need to know about the latest security issues, threats, and technologies that will help you protect your business!

The Benefits of Cloud-Based Endpoint Security

The Benefits of Cloud-Based Endpoint Security

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Michelle Drolet

The cloud computing revolution is well underway and there are lots of benefits to be realized. According to Awesome Cloud research the industry will be worth more than $150 billion this year, compared to $46 billion just six years ago. Mirroring the general trend for SaaS solutions, cloud-based IT security systems can be an ideal fit for smaller businesses, freeing them from internal IT overhead, cutting complexity, and providing scalability. Here are five reasons that switching to afalse

Why security professionals need to get more creative with penetration testing (and how to do it)

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Michelle Drolet

Criminals are evolving with their techniques for hacking and breaching corporate assets, so security managers need to as well. Here are some ways companies are going beyond standard pen testing in order to increase awareness By Maria Korolov Security professionals have long been running penetration tests against their firewalls and other security systems to find weaknesses that need to be addressed. The Common Vulnerability Scoring System is an industry standard, but has been around for afalse

Top 10 things to know about mobile security

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Michelle Drolet

10. Malware is on the rise

Introducing our Quarterly Newsletter: the Data Security Review

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Michelle Drolet

I am excited to announce the launch of our quarterly newsletter, the Data Security Review.

Please join us at the Information Security Summit 2014

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Michelle Drolet

Please save the date and plan to join us for this timely forum on what you need to know about the latest security issues, threats, and technologies that will help you protect your business!

Establishing Security Goals

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Michelle Drolet

Implementing security practices in your organization’s employees’ daily work habits, and ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of information security, the goals of the Security Awareness Program are:

How to Expose Cyber-Attacks and Combat Threats

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Michelle Drolet

Published by Michele Drolet, CEO of Towerwall Proper analysis will flag suspicious behavior and allow the IT department to assess the threat and take action to close it down Cybercriminals are employing more sophisticated techniques all the time and far too many companies and organizations still don't have the protection they really need to safeguard their systems. The prevalence of targeted attacks and advanced persistent threats (APTs) is disturbing. The risk is that security is breached,false