Cyber attacks impede a healthcare organization’s ability to provide care to patients. They’re time consuming and costly and include, downtime, productivity loss, business process disruption, forensic investigation, remediation, data loss, recovery of effected data and devices, reputational damages, and additional employee training. The best way to combat a cyber attack is to prevent it by…
What is NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation? The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Cybersecurity Regulation, or 23 NYCRR 500, is a recently introduced set of cybersecurity regulations directed at financial institutions. Originally announced in 2016 and put into effect on March 1, 2017 – NYDFS regulations featured a phased release to give organizations time to…
You’ve put a lot of time and effort into making your business successful. You’ve written your mission statement, streamlined your service offerings, crafted the perfect price points, created social media pages, and hired the right crew to help you out. Every business needs technology to thrive so you may have even outsourced your IT needs…
Nick Schkrioba is one of the newest faces at ADKtechs. As an IT Solutions Advisor, he collaborates with the Sales & Marketing team to attract new prospects, drive sales, and create innovative technology solutions for our clients. According to Jared Humiston [ADKteechs Owner & President], “As we expand our managed security program into Vermont, Nick’s…
Short on time? Check out our infographic that sums it all up here. Take a second to open a new tab and Google “cell phone hacking”. What do most of the results look like? Are they tips on how to prevent your phone from being hacked? News stories about a mass phone hacking scandal? Nope.…
If you clicked to read this blog post, chances are you are already familiar with PCI compliance and what it entails; but as a refresher from another one of our PCI compliance blog posts, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a set of security standards designed to ensure that ALL companies that…
Even though Windows 7 was released nearly a decade ago, it’s still incredibly popular with over 35% of PCs running on the aging operating system. However, your days with this tried and true OS may be numbered. Microsoft ended mainstream support (including new features and warranty claims) for Windows 7 way back in 2015, but…
Hackers target attorneys. According to the National Law Review, “As more and more clients send cyber due-diligence questionnaires to outside counsel to confirm that their sensitive information is secure, law firms have shored up their defenses, but a recent report by Logicforce found that is just not enough. Of the 200 law firms surveyed for…
Sixty percent of small businesses get hacked each year, but why? One of the main reasons is that small businesses are simply not spending enough on cyber security. With the frequency of breaches increasing at alarming rates, what’s a small business to do? Luckily for all of us small businesses out there, human error is…
Adirondack Technical Solutions (ADKtechs) welcomes Ray Potter to the team as a Solutions Architect. Mr. Potter comes to ADKtechs with 20 years of experience in the Education and Banking industries on an enterprise level. Mr. Potter’s experience with compliance, personally identifiable information (PII), enterprise systems & networking, and cyber security will be instrumental in helping…