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Anyone Can Be A Victim – Business Email Compromise Does Not Play Favorites

Mar 7, 2020 | Best Practices, Business, Business Email Compromise, Compliance, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, CyberTraining, Employees, Employees, Executives, Executives, Extortion, Financial, Hackers, Hacking, Human Element, Inattention, Insider Threat, Internet, Nationstates, Organized Crime, Phishing, Policies and Procedures, Privacy, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security, Security, Social Engineering, Technology

Anyone Can Be A Victim – Business Email Compromise Does Not Play Favorites No matter how big you are –, you can be a victim. Business email compromise can happen to anyone, and it only takes a single moment of inattention for it to work. To carry out a...

All Businesses are Tech Businesses – Like it or Not

Feb 29, 2020 | Asset Management, Best Practices, Business, Cable Companies, Cloud, Cloud Vendors, Computers, Cyber breaches, Cyber Insurance, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, CyberTraining, Data, Data Assets, Data Brokers, data sharing, Data Storage, Databases, Domain Name Service, Email, Employees, Executives, Financial, Future Workforce, Generation-Y, Hackers, Hacking, Hacks, Incident Response, Information Technology, Insider Threat, Internet, Internet Service Providers, IoT, Jobs, Liability, Machine Learning, Malware, Malware, MFA, Nationstates, Networking, Open Source, Organized Crime, Password Managers, Passwords, Phishing, predictive algorithms, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Ransomware, Regulation, Regulatory Compliance, Security, Security, Security Assessments, Shadow-IT, Software As A Service, Technology, Technology, Unsecured, Web Tools, Zero-Day

All Businesses are Tech Businesses – Like it or Not The world of information is remaking businesses with new technologies turning all businesses into technology companies like it or not. Companies who continue to believe that they are not technology companies...

Most Businesses Attacked By Business Email Compromise Last Year

Feb 1, 2020 | Business, Business Email Compromise, Cyber breaches, cyberattacks, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, CyberTraining, DeepFake, Employees, Employees, Hackers, Hacking, Hacking, HR, Human Element, Identity Theft, industrial espionage, Insider Threat, Internet, Malware, Malware, MFA, Patching, Phishing, Phishing, Psychology, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security, Security Alerts, Social Engineering, Technology

Most Businesses Attacked By Business Email Compromise Last Year 2019 was the year for Business Email Compromises also known as BEC attacks. In fact, a majority of all businesses across the world became targets of these directed attacks involving their executives....

Employee Training Key to Spotting Existing and Emerging Threats

Feb 1, 2020 | Attack Vectors, Audio-Visual Data, Best Practices, Biometrics, Business, Corporate Reputation, Cyber breaches, Cyber Liability, cyberattacks, Cybercrime, CyberTraining, DeepFake, Employees, Employees, Executives, Extortion, Hackers, Hacking, Hacking, Human Element, Impersonation, Incident Response, industrial espionage, Internet, Market Value, Marketing Manipulation, Patching, Radio Show, Radio_Show, records, scam, Security, Security, Security Alerts, Social Engineering, Technology, Updates

Employee Training Key to Spotting Existing and Emerging Threats We have entered a new phase of sophisticated frauds that can devestate organizations. Knows as Deep fake fraud, hackers use machine learning and other artificial intelligence tools to manipulate voice,...

Technology Can Only Protect You So Much — Then Other Tactics are Needed

Jan 18, 2020 | Business, Cyber breaches, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, CyberTraining, Data Assets, Employees, Employment, Human Element, Identity Theft, Insider Threat, Internet, Passwords, Phishing, Phishing, Privacy, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security, Smishing, Technology, Vishing, Vulnerabilities

Technology Can Only Protect You So Much — Then Other Tactics are Needed Businesses of all sizes are now finding that all the technological security they put in place cannot protect them from threats that go after identity and credentials access. In the...

Social Engineering Comes to the Forefront of Attacks

Jan 18, 2020 | Applications, Best Practices, Business, Business Email Compromise, Cyber breaches, Cyber Liability, cyberattacks, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, CyberTraining, Economic Disruption, Education, Employee Training, Employees, Employment, Exploits, Fines and Penalties, Government, Hackers, Hacking, Hacks, Insider Threat, Internet, Malware, MFA, Nationstates, Organized Crime, Phishing, Phishing, Phishing, Policies and Procedures, Radio Show, Radio_Show, scam, Security, Security, Smishing, Social Engineering, Social Media, Social Media, Social Networking, Technology, Threats, Tracking

Social Engineering Comes to the Forefront of Attacks We depend on our smart devices and use them as a primary communication tool. Studies found that young adult users send over 2000 texts per month and receive over 1800 with that volume people are less wary, and it is...