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02/01/2024

Is your data included in latest breach?
Exploring the ‘mother of all breaches’: understanding the cybersecurity breach impact and defending your data.

Last week, cybersecurity experts revealed a massive data breach involving more than 12 terabytes of information and 26 billion individual records. Dubbed “The Mother of All Breaches,” the leak includes information previously stolen from popular apps and well-known companies like Tencent, X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Adobe, and hundreds of other organizations.

Researchers who dug into the treasure trove of online material said that the database contained nearly 4,000 folders—and each folder contained millions of records scraped from past data breaches.

What Does the “Mother of All Breaches” Mean for Me?

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Worried that your information is caught up in “The Mother of All Breaches”?

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01/30/2024

IT For Healthcare:
Have you Assessed the Health of your Healthcare Infrastructure?

The healthcare industry faces a plethora of challenges in securing its digital infrastructure and safeguarding patient data. Protected health information (PHI) is frequently sold on the dark web, making healthcare one of the most targeted sectors by cybercriminals. Ransomware attacks pose a significant problem, with the potential to disrupt patient care and compromise critical patient data. Moreover, keeping critical infrastructure online and secure is a considerable challenge for healthcare organizations.

In 2022, healthcare organizations experienced the highest average cost of a data breach for the twelfth year in a row, as well as the longest average time to detect and contain those data breaches.

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01/24/2024

Watch out for 1099 and W-2 phishing scams.
Unmasking the threat – navigating the risks of tax season phishing scams.

It’s still only January, but tax season is on the horizon. And since IRS requirements dictate that companies must send W-2s and 1099s to employees and independent contractors before January 31st, cybercriminals have found the perfect cover for launching their attacks.

Financial professionals, accountants, and bookkeepers point to a surge in email phishing schemes specifically targeting individuals. These messages are sent under the guise of confirming receipt of W2 or 1099 forms. Emails posing as legitimate tax-related communications flood inboxes, urging users to click on seemingly innocuous links to confirm the receipt of their 1099 forms.

What do these emails look like?
Common language includes lines like this: “We have sent your W-2 or 1099 electronically to save paper this year on behalf of XYZ Company. Please click on the link below to retrieve your 1099.”

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CMIT Solutions helps financial organizations, tax professionals, everyday consumers, and businesses of all sizes to stay safe, stay informed, and outsmart the scammers.

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01/22/2024

IT for the Anywhere Business:
Utilize our network of over 900 IT Professionals and transform your business

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01/16/2024

Security solutions for Financial Services:
Protecting your business-critical networks, data, and applications.

As a financial services provider, maintaining the privacy of your customers and the security of their confidential data is non-negotiable. But as internet technologies have changed the way you deliver services, regulations have multiplied along with online threats. IT security measures are now far more important than stout vaults and armed guards.

Buying a new security solution for each new set of regulations and each new generation of malware is not sustainable. The daily tasks of managing a disparate collection of incompatible products will quickly overwhelm your IT personnel and resources.

Designed for today’s hybrid, cloud-connected IT infrastructures, CMIT Solutions work together seamlessly to help you create a fully integrated security infrastructure that gives you total visibility and control — without turning security management into a full-time job.

- Attacks involving malicious insiders take financial services an average of more than 55 days to resolve (Accenture)

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01/11/2024

Zero Trust Security:
Protect your business applications and valuable data with Zero Trust architecture. Prevent unauthorized access, defend against breaches and stop lateral movement with Zero Trust framework. (Source: SonicWall)

Remote work, the growth of BYOD, employee mobility, and the use of cloud-based applications are all on the rise, and perimeter-based security just isn’t enough to protect your enterprise in this new, hyper-distributed era. Least Privilege access allows organizations to secure sensitive resources by only giving trusted users access to what they need and reducing the lateral movement of threats throughout a network.

Learn more how we can help you decrease cybersecurity risks.

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01/09/2024

Class Is Now in Session - Anywhere
Secure learning is essential for the safety of schools and students.

More students. Disperse classrooms. Constrained resources. Reduced budgets. K-12 schools are faced with more network, mobility and security challenges than ever before — all while cyber threats grow more advanced by the day. To deliver safe in-class and distance-learning experiences to a growing student population, K-12 schools need to secure wireless networks, cloud apps and endpoints.

Core network security requirements for K-12
• Protect students from harmful websites both at school and home on school-issued devices, in line with Children's Internet Protection Act (C**A)
• Comprehensively protect the network from threats
• Provide secure, high-speed wireless access for students, faculty, and staff using either school-issued or personal devices
• Optimize network bandwidth for academic applications to enhance performance and productivity
• Streamline deployment, management, and integration to lower total cost of ownership

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12/27/2023

Empowering your business: Key characteristics of a trusted IT partner.

We’ve all been there: a desktop or laptop crashes, bringing productivity to a halt. If you’re lucky, you have a tech-savvy friend or hard-working employee who will go the extra mile to try to keep computers in working order.

The problem, though, is that when you really need assistance—at 4:00 PM on a Friday with a big deadline looming, say, or 8:00 AM on Monday when your inbox is full of important messages—that person may not be available to help. And if a problem happens during the holidays, it might be even more difficult to find timely help.

What then? That’s why a trusted IT partner is such an invaluable resource—especially as cybersecurity challenges increase and the demand for help grows.

Here are a few characteristics of support that any trusted IT partner should provide:
• Identify areas that demand immediate attention.
• Implement proactive 24/7 monitoring of your systems.
• Suggest services that fit your budget and your needs.
• Develop long-term strategies for hardware, software, and support upgrades.
• Listen first, listen again, and listen some more.
• Provide the cybersecurity education your employees need.

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In the long run, proactive IT services cost far less than reactive or break/fix services.
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12/15/2023

How strong is your firewall?
Firewalls play a critical role in network security, threat mitigation, and access control.

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12/13/2023

23andMe data breach affects 7 million users: Risks, response, and cybersecurity measures.

In a disclosure last week, genetic testing company 23andMe announced that the private information of nearly 7 million users had been compromised. Exploiting old passwords used by 23andMe users on other accounts, hackers gained access to usernames, addresses, ancestry trees, and birth years.

The initial breach affected 14,000 profiles, whose full suite of information was stolen. But 5.5 million more users, who opted into a feature called DNA Relatives that connects them with potential DNA matches, had their display names, predicted relationships, and uploaded photos compromised. Another 1.4 million users had their family trees, relationship labels, and geographic locations leaked.

Why did this breach happen?
What can other users do to protect their information?

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At CMIT Solutions, we consider it a matter of when—not if—a breach will occur. We monitor client systems 24/7, identifying, blocking, and resolving problems before they affect day-to-day productivity, efficiency, and security.

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12/07/2023

How strong is your firewall?
Firewalls are designed to block cyber threats and prevent unwanted access to your network. It acts as the first line of defense against hackers.

Benefits of firewall protection:
- Reinforce network security
- Isolate data and monitor access
- Deploy multi-layered tools
- Assure regulatory compliance
- Secure remote work environments
- 24/7 vigilance and reporting

A business without a robust firewall is like a castle without walls. Secure your digital fortress, protect your assets, and fortify your business against the ever-evolving threat landscape with the essential safeguard of firewalls.

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12/04/2023

Major cyberattack impacting critical care at hospitals in at least 3 states:
The ongoing cyberattack at Ardent Health Services is forcing roughly a dozen of their hospitals to divert patients away from emergency rooms. Critical care has been impacted in at least three states.

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Cybersecurity threats never end, inundating companies of all sizes from every direction possible.

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