The top cause of security vulnerabilities are outdated and unpatched systems. See the data to prove it, and know which types of systems are more commonly out of date.

Inside you'll see the top 10 external security vulnerabilities, the top 10 internal vulnerabilities, and the most common causes, all found in the 2014 Global Threat Intelligence Report.

This year's Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report has a lighter tone, but its data and analysis are as sobering as ever.

Get insights and charts from the report, and see which types of security incidents happen most often in your clients' industries.

Charlotte, NC – Calyptix Security Corp., a leading provider of network security and management solutions for small and medium-size businesses, today announced a new resource that highlights important regulations that … Continue reading →

IT providers, do you have clients in healthcare? Do you handle their patient data? If yes, then you are almost certainly required to protect that data by HIPAA.

HIPAA calls this data “electronic protected health information,” or ePHI. Essentially, it is electronic information about a patient. It can be anything from a patient’s phone number to a recent diagnosis.

HIPAA requires healthcare organizations to protect this data. It also requires their “business associates” to protect it – and that includes their IT service providers.

Charlotte, NC – Calyptix Security, a leading provider of network security and management solutions for small and medium-size businesses, today announced a powerful way for managed service providers to increase … Continue reading →

Heartbleed is a major security flaw discovered in certain versions of OpenSSL. The bug can allow attackers to eavesdrop on communications, impersonate users, or steal data thought to be encrypted and secure. Continue reading →

DDoS attacks are nothing new, but the storms of traffic they use to drown targets in 2014 have grown into hurricanes. Continue reading →

Hacked small businesses are rarely in the news. Your SMB clients might hear about the breach at Target, but they never hear about the local auto dealer who lost more than $20,000 to cybercrime. This gives SMBs a false sense of security. They think they are too small for hackers to bother. The truth is that they are breached far more often than large firms. Continue reading →

Cryptolocker is the notorious, ransom-charging malware that continues to stop clients in their tracks. In this profile, we cover the basic info and give you a kit that can easily help you protect clients. Continue reading →

Malware sites increasingly use services like Google and GoDaddy for hosting. The Washington Post even called Amazon a “hornet’s nest of malware."

These trends and others are described in the SERT Quarterly Threat Intelligence Report Q4 2013. We dig through the report to give you the top malware sites, hosting providers, and more to watch out for.