Cybersecurity: How to Stay Secure? Always

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Cybersecurity How to Stay Secure? Always
According to a popular article by Forbes, more
than 200 billion things will be connected via
Internet by 2020. Everything including cars,
planes, homes, cities, and even animals are
getting connected through technological
intervention. As technology is getting more and
more deeply integrated into our lives, cyber risk
is becoming bigger than ever.
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What Statistics Says?

• According to the Global Risks report 2017
  published by the World Economic Forum, 90 of the
  companies are ill-equipped to deal the
  cyber-attacks.  Listed below are some popular
  predictions on cyber-attacks
• Cybercrime damage costs will reach 6 trillion by
  2021. Cybercrime continues to grow in the growing
  cyber market.
• Global ransomware damage costs predicted to
  exceed 5 billion by the end of 2017. This is a
  15 percent increases as compared to last two
  years and is expected to rise.
• By 2019, businesses will fall victim to
  ransomware attack every 14 seconds.

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How and Why Cyber Security Should Matter to Your
Business?

• Protecting your business from online risks is not
  only avoiding financial losses but also making
  yourself stable against threats. What if your
  personal contacts, important data, email list or
  customer details are stolen? To protect your
  companys sensitive data from such random
  incidents, cybersecurity should be your top
  priority. The best way to prevent such
  occurrences is to hire a managed service provider
  for your business, as sometimes recovery may be
  more expensive than protecting.
• This is where ICTechnology can help you to stay
  secure while online browsing, accessing the
  non-secured Internet or security breaches.
  ICTechnology provides easy tips and technological
  solution against cybercrimes like Ransomware.
• To begin with, lets talk about one of the
  simplest but crucial step to your security
  measures Creating a Strong Password for
  all-important transactions. According to the new
  NIST password guidelines 2017, you should build a
  stronger password to improve your security from
  cyber-attacks.

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New NIST 2017 Guidelines for Password Security

• Your password should include a long string
  of letters, numbers, and symbols on its head.
  Lets look into the key changes in NISTs new
  digital identity guidelines
• Create a memorable password. Dont jumble up
  letters, numbers, and symbols.
• Single dictionary words or numeric sequences like
  1235456 should be banned.
• Screen your password strength against
  cybercriminal dictionary attacks.
• Dont change password frequently as it leads to
  poor password being created.

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By creating a strong password, you can protect
your data to large extent.  Call ICTechnology
at 1300-255-428 to get more information on how to
create a strong password for individual and busine
ss. With our team of highly experienced
professionals, we will proactively overcome the
cyber threats, creating a safe and risk-free work
environment.   For your queries related
to cybersecurity and data recovery, please
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