How to Avoid Black Friday Scams: What Everyone Must Know Before Shopping The holiday season is the busiest shopping period of the year — and also the busiest season for cybercriminals.Black Friday and Cyber Monday attract millions of shoppers looking for deals, which creates the perfect opportunity for scammers to deploy fake websites, fraudulent ads,...Read More

In recent years, cybercriminals have been increasingly using phishing attacks to gain access to sensitive information and resources. Phishing attacks involve the use of social engineering techniques to trick individuals into divulging their login credentials or other confidential data. Once the cybercriminals have obtained the login credentials, they can use them to launch account takeovers,...Read More

“Seeing Yourself in Cyber”  Since the 2004 declaration by the President of the United States and Congress, we dedicate each October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The annual campaign is sponsored through a conjoined effort between the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) — providing support from both the federal...Read More

Truly popularized in the mid-2000s, multi-factor authentication (MFA) has been security practitioners’ go-to response whenever someone asks, “what can I be doing right now to protect my data and accounts?” It’s often listed as a default best practice to defend against many cyber attacks and attack vectors such as phishing, business email compromise (BEC), keystroke...Read More

Protecting Backup Solutions From Threats and Vulnerabilities  As we have recently hit the end of the financial tax season and concluded some of the busy periods companies endure for selling their product or service, this is the time of year when many organizations reevaluate their business continuity and disaster recovery plans. While they likely consider...Read More

Best Practices for Managing Organizational Data Breach Privacy At conferences, networking events, trade shows, or even just at social gatherings, the topic may have come up that put you in a position where someone was telling you about a data breach or other cyber incident their business incurred. While the conversation may have been genuine...Read More

As we continue our journey on what it means to practice holistic cybersecurity and its comprehensive methodology, we can now go into the process of getting your business to that point. Everything about going holistic and fully implementing a robust security strategy such as Zero Trust starts with “Identity.” Identification is merely the process of...Read More

Are You Asking the Right Questions to Your Security Partners?  The recent Okta security breach is another example of companies founded on the vision of providing cybersecurity solutions, not necessarily being immune to attacks. It also shows the devastation that a cyber incident can have when targeted toward a cybersecurity software vendor, consultant, or managed...Read More

As we remain vulnerable to the constantly-evolving financial frauds and cybersecurity threat landscape and in light of recent events such as the QuickBooks payment scams, it’s important to be vigilant against any type of deception used to financially despair a person or organization — otherwise known as fraud.  Fraud takes many forms depending on the...Read More

Cyber insurance has increasingly become one of the most valuable insurance coverages sought out by organizations of all shapes and sizes. As cyber-related threats continue to evolve and multiply, the insurance offers a financial umbrella for those who fall victim to attempted and successful breaches.  Cyber insurance consists of two major components; first-party and third-party...Read More