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5 Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities That Will Impact Your Dealership
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 [...]
Software Security Patching – A Potential Hole In Dealership 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 [...]
What Dealerships Need To Know About Cyber Recovery
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 [...]
An Argument For Outsourcing Your IT & Cybersecurity To An MSP In 2023
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 End of The “IT Guy”
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 Trends for 2023
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 [...]
Firewall & Antivirus Software Isn’t Enough
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 [...]
Evolve Or Fail
Today, almost everything happens on top of a connected technical infrastructure – including selling and servicing cars and trucks. Our reliance on technology poses monumental risks to both our [...]
An Effective Cyber Defense Evolves – EDR vs XDR
Endpoints are the physical devices that connect to and exchange information with a computer network. Endpoints include mobile devices, desktop computers, and servers. Endpoints offer the cybercriminal a common [...]