Employees: The #1 Cause of Data Breaches
As the multi-billion-dollar industry of cybercrime continues to thrive, employees remain the number one cause of cyber attacks. Despite cybercriminals relentlessly targeting and attacking organizations of all sizes, employees remain untrained on security awareness, leaving them to fight a battle they’re unprepared for.
Use Security to Grow Your MSP Business
In an age where businesses are moving their data from in-house servers to the cloud, the complexity of how to appropriately care for that data is beginning to disappear. Although that may not sound like a bad problem to have for those organizations making the move, MSPs who were once extremely sought after to protect those businesses are starting to become a commodity.
Breached Records to Skyrocket with SMBs as the Biggest Targets
A lot can happen in 5 years, and unfortunately, not always for the better. According to a recent report by Juniper Research, Cybercrime & the Internet of Threats 2018, data breaches are expected to reach 146 billion records over the next five years.
51% of SMBs at Risk: Why Cybersecurity Awareness Training Matters
Small businesses are often thought to be a forgotten entity when it comes to cybercrime. On the surface, it seems like a fair assumption that hackers wouldn’t target small businesses when there are large enterprises with much greater assets. Unfortunately, many small business leaders fall for this “I’m not a target” mentality, when in fact, they are just as attractive of a target as large corporations.
The Psychology of Falling for a Phishing Email
Phishing is a cybercrime that has been around for many years, where targets are sent malicious emails claiming to be from a legitimate individual or organization to trick them into disclosing their sensitive information. Phishing emails remain a major threat today, however despite increased awareness of the cybercrime, cybercriminals continue to fool their targets into their traps, thus successfully carrying out these attacks. How do these attackers continuously find success in tricking their victims?
Phone-Based 2FA: Not so Secure After All
In a time where data breaches have become the norm, there is no such thing as exercising too much caution when it comes to protecting your online assets, including your login credentials and access to accounts. Two-factor authentication (2FA), a method of confirming a user’s identity via combining two factors is widely accepted and recommended by security experts as a necessity for optimum security online. 2FA is a great added security feature to protect your account because an unauthorized individual is unlikely to supply the factors required to successfully gain access.
Small Business Cyber Security: The Ostrich Effect
The following blog first appeared on the Secure ERP blog. It is reprinted here with permission.
Some small business owners will realize I’m describing them after they read this blog, but then those same c-level guys won’t see it and even if they do, they won’t read it, because they don’t want to know. Actually, that’s not really fair.
Fighting Costly Threats with Cybersecurity Awareness Training
Cybercrime causes $450B in damage annually. View our infographic to see the scale of the threat and why data breach prevention is vital for every business.
Couple loses their new home to email hackers
We’ve all heard of hackers going extreme lengths to steal information from their victims, but just how far will they go? A couple from North Carolina can attest to these unfathomable measures, having lost the contract on their new home to email hackers. An article on Graham Cluley depicts the nightmare suffered by the couple.
MSPs need to offer their clients security solutions
In an article over at Business Solutions, Ellen Jennings, CEO of BEI, talks about cloud based security services that every MSP should offer.