Posts Tagged ‘Security’
3 Reasons to Build Your IT Security Strategy
Having an IT security strategy is more important than ever with ransomware attacks increasing by 12% last year and costing businesses more than $8 billion. And according to Comparitech, downtime resulting from ransomware costs most organizations upwards of $64,000. Spear phishing messages connected to ransomware now have a 6x higher engagement rate than marketing emails…Read More
Everything You Need to Know About SMiShing
What is SMiShing? It may sound funny, but the latest cyber-scamming strategy can quickly wreak serious havoc on your organization. In fact, some of the largest global enterprises are already losing millions to these scams each year. What is SMiShing? According to the Federal Communications Commission, SMiShing is a mix of SMS—short message service—and phishing.…Read More
These 3 Tactics Can Arm Your Employees Against Spear Phishing
According to the FBI’s 2017 Internet Crime Report, business email compromises caused more than $5 billion in losses since 2013, and reached $675 million in 2017. Many of these attacks are known as spear phishing—electronic communications scams targeting a specific individual, organization or business in hopes of gaining access to their connections or credentials. 80…Read More
Improving IoT Security: 4 Ways to Slam the Door on Hackers
As I was reading a recent Sophos blog on improving IoT security, I had a flashback to my childhood. Growing up, my parents got after me for leaving doors open (“In or out!”, “You’re letting all the warm/cool air out!” and “You’re letting bugs in!” were popular in my house). Your company leaders probably don’t…Read More
3 Simple Strategies to Get Your Business Ready for the Ransomware Attack That’s Coming
Let's go back. Way back. All the way back to May 2017. Over a weekend in the middle of that month, an aptly named bit of ransomware known as "WannaCry" swept through Windows operating systems faster than a California wildfire, infecting more than 200,000 systems in over 150 countries in a matter of a couple…Read More
5 Questions to Ask Before Deciding on a Machine Learning Solution
The security buzzwords for 2017 and 2018 have been machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence. This new technology boasts learning systems with impressive results in marketing fluff, but not all machine learning is created equally. Algorithms are the decision-making formulas that allow the application to identify known threats and make informed guesses on unknown…Read More
Trend Micro Acquires Immunio
Applications are created with the best intentions; creating the right balance of features, usability, and security can be difficult. Often times, vulnerabilities exist in the libraries used within the code and are not immediately visible to the developers. With Trend Micro’s recent acquisition of Immunio they are taking steps to protect applications from within the…Read More
Powering Up a Rural Utility’s Network Security and DR
A rise in security breaches is causing IT managers in various industries to take note and examine the systems they have in place to prevent and remediate attacks. The IT team at a power company that maintains more than 12,000 miles of lines in the rural Midwest recognized that their industry was vulnerable; they knew…Read More
The Internet Wants YOU: Consider a Career in Cybersecurity
In keeping with Cyber Security Awareness Month, we have been posting an article a week keeping with Department of Homeland Security’s calendar. Faithful readers may have noticed we missed last week’s topic, “Today’s predictions for tomorrow’s internet”. Unfortunately, the future is changing so rapidly, we couldn’t decide on what draft of the blog we wanted to…Read More
Cybersecurity in the Workplace is Everyone’s Business
If you missed week 1 of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, check out my previous post! October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month and the Department of Homeland Security has outlined some themes for this year’s campaign. Organizations spend a significant portion of their IT budget to help make their environment secure; however, technology is…Read More