As they seek to enable remote work, many organizations are implementing new ways for employees to access and share data. This is all necessary to enable business continuity, but it’s possible (and perhaps even probable) that organizations are unwittingly opening up new security vulnerabilities as they introduce new technologies and workflows. Unless an IT shop employs professionals with deep expertise in cybersecurity, the prospect of hunting around for unknown security gaps can be incredibly daunting. That’s where cybersecurity assessments from a partner like CDW come in.

Last year, I consulted with a pastor whose church had suffered a ransomware attack. This particular church had an extensive fundraising operation designed to support a local homeless program, and the ransomware infection impacted all of the data used to solicit donations — and ground those important efforts to a halt.

Like many nonprofits, the church fallen into a common trap: the fallacy of thinking that they don’t have any important data that would attract attackers. But, in this world, every organization is a potentially lucrative target.

With the rise of ransomware attacks against organizations of all sizes, cybersecurity has become a top priority for even small businesses. Unfortunately, the unique challenges of a smaller organization can make securing the IT environment particularly difficult. IT staffs are typically stretched thin and asked to be knowledgeable across a variety of domains. Additionally, allocating…

CDW’s security engineers have conducted Threat Check security assessments for more than 500 organizations since launching the third version of this service one year ago. During a Threat Check, powerful security tools are deployed on an organization’s network to spot vulnerabilities and signs of a breach. As we’ve analyzed the results of those assessments, CDW…

In July 2018, CDW rolled out the third iteration of our complimentary Threat Check service. This service is designed to minimize the effort required by our customers to complete the assessment. Threat Check customers are provided a fully loaded security appliance that they simply connect to their networks. The appliance works in the background, passively…

In years past, many organizations took a passive approach to cybersecurity. They’d sit back and wait for something bad to happen, then react to it. That approach is no longer acceptable for just about any organization. If you think your organization isn’t a target or that it doesn’t have anything that cybercriminals want, you’re wrong….