Combat Phishing with Breach Secure Now’s Training Solutions
You are familiar with phishing. You’ve taught your clients and colleagues to be on alert for fraudulent emails. But are you changing your approach to education and training to match the sophistication of cybercriminals and their tactics?
Smart Phishing
Teaching effectively doesn’t necessarily mean endless bits of content and methodologies. It means that each lesson and tool should have an impact on users.
What is Deepfake
A deepfake is a portmanteau (more on that in a moment) of “deep learning” and “fake”. What is a portmanteau? It is when you take multiple words and combine them into a new word. For example, smog is a portmanteau of smoke and fog. So how exactly could deepfake affect you and your business?
If you take a photo, audio, or video and replace one person in it with someone else’s image, you’ve created a deepfake. If you create an audio file with a voice that impersonates someone else, you’ve created deepfake content. With today’s technology, this goes beyond cropping your face over someone else’s in a photograph.
MSP the Expert
Small businesses often make the mistake that they have to be cybersecurity experts to have strong security programs in place. Remind them that as their MSP, you can be their expert. The concern is often that learning how to protect their business will be overwhelming. One more thing to do. Or that they need to hire someone internally. So they put it off until they fill that role, or find the right product to enable their team.
What Is a Botnet?
You may hear the word ‘bot’ used in conversations, especially around cybersecurity. But often we use it without really knowing exactly what it means or how it originated.
The Players
The term botnet is short for robot network. It describes a network of computers that are infected by malware. This malware is controlled by a single party, known as the bot-herder. And each computer that is under that control is known as a bot.
MSP: Leading by Example
As an MSP, your business is designed to serve your clients. That means fixing what breaks and preparing them for what might break. You encourage behaviors that eliminate the breaking altogether. As a Breach Secure Now partner, you’re likely approaching this from multiple angles. Ongoing training, social media reminders, and products that integrate with their business to assess a candidate’s cybersecurity know-how before they become a team member. You are there to show them how to reduce the risk of a cybersecurity breach.
The Human Element
With regard to technology, the Human Race is in an actual race to have the latest products and solutions integrated into our lives.
We will stand in line for hours to be the first to have a new phone when it is released. Camp out on Black Friday to get a good deal on electronics and smart devices. We make it a priority to have the latest and greatest. But why aren’t we integrating the latest or greatest habits into protecting ourselves?
Ignoring the human element in cybersecurity is a notion that must change. We continue to put emphasis on prioritizing the technology and not the behaviors.
Summer Phishing
Remember when summertime meant easy days and more time to relax? In the hurriedness of today, those moments can feel like they are too far gone to recapture. Additionally, as an MSP, there are so many clients relying on you, that it can be difficult to take time for yourself.
Enter Breach Secure Now
We are built by an MSP, for MSPs. And that means that when we create a product, it is built on that foundation. And moreover, with the goal of making your life easier and your cybersecurity stack as robust and complete as anything on the market.
Annual Training Now on Mobile Devices
We are excited to announce that our annual training is now mobile device ready! Your clients can now complete their full training courses just as they did on their desktop, but in a mobile format as well.
What Does This Mean?
You will now be able to offer your client’s users access to watch the Annual Training class videos on mobile devices. Additionally, they will be able to take the training quizzes there as well. And access to their certificate? It’s available via their mobile device too!
Pre-Employment Cybersecurity Assessment
Last year our team developed an innovative and one-of-a-kind security risk assessment, with a one-of-a-kind name. The Baseline Employee Cybersecurity Assessment, or BECA, was released in December and has been successfully used by our MSP partners as both a prospecting tool for prospective clients and a relationship-building tool for their existing clients!
Since then, our team has been working to leverage the success of BECA to create its HR doppelgänger: The Pre-Employment Cybersecurity Assessment.
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What Is Malvertising?
Oxford Dictionary defines malvertising as ‘the practice of incorporating malware in online advertisements.’ Short for malicious software, or malware advertising, this is the practice of attacking viewers or consumers with fraudulent information that is inserted into sometimes (but not always) legitimate advertisements.
How Does It Work
Malvertising works in conjunction with the online advertising ecosystem by initiating multiple redirects after the user clicks or views an infected advertisement.