As the incidence, severity, and sophistication of today’s cyber threats continues to grow, the appropriate use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) is becoming increasingly important.  Add to this that new [...]

In today's world, cybersecurity threats are an ever-present danger to dealerships, both large and small.  The good news is that many dealerships are taking action to improve their cybersecurity [...]

As dealerships scramble to comply with the new FTC Safeguards Rule it’s important to remember why the new rule exists - to drive businesses to implement more effective cybersecurity [...]

According to research performed by the Ponemon Institute, 60% of cyberattack victims were compromised due to missing software security patches.  Software security patching is the process of updating software [...]

Today the average downtime from a cyberattack is about 3 weeks.  The reason why it takes so many so long to resume operations after a cyberattack is because many [...]

To start, let’s all be clear about the definition of an MSP.  An MSP is a managed service provider.  Helion is an IT/cybersecurity MSP.  More specifically, Helion is an [...]

The business of selling and servicing cars and trucks depends on technology.  As a result, the reliability and security of your IT infrastructure is mission critical.  In other words, [...]

Cybercrime isn’t going away and it’s not slowing down.  In 2022, there was a 13% increase over the number of ransomware attacks reported in 2021 according to the Verizon [...]

Many dealerships are under the impression that simply having a firewall and antivirus software deployed is a solid cyber defense – they’re incorrect.  Cybercrime is now big, big business [...]