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After the recent wave of WannaCry ransomware attacks, managed service providers said the key takeaway they are bringing to customers going forward is the importance of proactive security. "Our whole stance is around proactive security. When you have proactive [security], WannaCry is not going to have an impact," said Michelle Drolet, CEO of Framingham, Mass.-based Towerwall. Drolet said that proactive approach includes an integrated, layered approach to security to protect the different levelsfalse

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Fresh and familiar threats to concern IT departments. As we embark on 2017, it's time to reflect on a year where cybersecurity has played a major role. Even presidential campaigns haven’t been free from hacking scandals and data leaks. The average cost of a data breach for companies grew from $3.8 million last year to $4 million in 2016, according to the Ponemon Institute. Companies of all sizes have embraced the cloud and open source has become the standard for infrastructure software. Bothfalse

We need to secure the internet of things. The internet of things (IoT) is all about connecting devices to the internet so that they can talk to each other and to us, to make life more convenient. That might mean turning on the lights when we get up, or allowing us to use our phones to see who’s at the front door, even when we're at the office. The potential applications are endless. There are already more than 6 billion connected "things," and that's set to rise to more than 20 billion byfalse

The Silicon Review has declared SnoopWall is One of the 50 Fastest Growing Tech Companies for 2016. SnoopWall, Inc. delivers breach prevention technology that helps small to medium size enterprises (SMEs) get one step ahead of the next cyber-criminal, malicious insider, phishing attacks, ransomware or zero-day malware behind the corporate firewall. Customer adoption and growth metrics determine which companies receive this award. Snoopwall's yearly 300% growth rate is in part because of thefalse

Company among top 20 recognized for their IT security leadership and innovation BOSTON – November 15, 2016 – Towerwall (www.towerwall.com), a data security services provider for small to mid-size businesses, today announced that Cyber Defense Magazine has named Towerwall a “Cyber Security Leader for 2016.” Towerwall was among the top 20 companies to receive the recognition for exceptional information security (InfoSec) products and services. “The personal relationship Towerwall extends is veryfalse

The key to securing against this threat lies in a common metaphor—if a ship has a hole, it is better to patch the breach than bail the water Data breaches are increasingly becoming an expensive problem for more and more companies. According to the most recent Ponemon Institute Data Breach report, insecure data cost companies an average of $221 per compromised record in 2016, an increase of 7 percent from the previous year and an all-time high. The key to securing against this threat lies in afalse

Michelle Drolet, CEO of Towerwall in Framingham, is an innovative thinker. Never one to shy away from looking at new factors that come into a situation with an open perspective, she has a few things she's learned about good management and good leadership along the way. First, she delegates more. "When I first started, it was all about internal, and we had to do it all. As I've gotten older, I'm able to hand things over and say, 'We can't do that well, but I know they can do that well,'" Droletfalse

The average cost of a data breach involving fewer than 10,000 records was $5 million The American public has become so inured to data breaches that it’s difficult to remember them all. Infamous breaches like the ones at Target and Sony become almost forgettable when confronted with the recently disclosed half-billion accounts compromised at Yahoo in 2014.