Cyber Security

  "Falsehood flies and the truth comes limping after it.” - Jonathan Swift Misinformation is false or misleading information that results from unintentional human errors and inaccuracy. In the modern 20th century, everything is available at the tip of our fingertips, and mobile phones have made our life frictionless. This lure of frictionless and easy life has tuned our brains to understand things most simply. This has also impacted how we consume knowledge and believe everything we read without fact-checking the source. The internet is a potent tool where you can follow communities of like-minded people through social media applications like Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Reddit and many more. There is so much information available that one tends to believe in the readily available statement without double-checking because it is a frictionless experience. Once we believe that an individual or community is giving the correct information, it spreads through a straightforward option, ...

Anyone who has ever started a business knows just how hard those first few years can be. Whether success comes like a tidal wave, or slowly trickles in, it’s incredibly challenging to pick where to put people, money and other resources. An entrepreneur or business manager is constantly thinking about what is needed now. Many things get pushed aside for “later, when we need it,” but if a start-up ignores its need for cybersecurity in the early moments of the business, there may not be a later. A long-spoken piece of advice applies: Ignore at your own peril. Why Cybersecurity Matters to Start-ups Start-ups are just as vulnerable to cyber attacks (perhaps more so), as any other business. Connecting any system, data, app or other assets to an internet connection creates a potential access point for hackers. Plus, because start-ups are looking to reduce costs and are starting out now (not 10 years ago), the reliance on all things online is that much greater; and hackers know some businesses...