As organizations encourage their employees to work remotely to prevent the spread of COVID-19, they may be taking on additional or unknown cyber risks as well. The most experienced hackers know how to take advantage of national incidents to conduct very effective phishing and social engineering campaigns. Allowing employees to access sensitive corporate data from […]
Category: Cyber
Cybersecurity Insurance, Why You Need It and What You Need to Know Before You Get It
$3.92 million. That’s the cost of an average data breach in 2019, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Study. For small businesses, those with less than 500 employees, the cost of successful cyberattack is particularly chilling. For these types of organizations, a breach can cost more than $2.5 million on average. So, for any leader who believes his or her organization is too small to be […]
Think Before You Send
The father of a Catholic parish in Ohio recently had to explain to his parishioners how his church had lost $1.75 million. In a letter to his flock, Father Bob Stec explained what had occurred, how overnight, nearly $2 million had disappeared from their coffers. The church had been undergoing renovations and working with a construction company. The church wired […]
Combating the Internal Threat: Using IT Auditing and Online Surveillance to Fight Data Theft
Organizations spend a fortune purchasing the latest cybersecurity firewalls and intrusion detection systems to protect against external threat actors. Yet, they often neglect one of the greatest threats to their own data: employees. A survey by Biscom highlighted the danger of employee data exfiltration. The survey found: More than 1 in 4 respondents say they […]
2.2 Billion Passwords Have Been Leaked. Here Are Some Things You Can Do.
2.2 Billion. It’s a staggering number. It also happens to be the number of usernames and associated passwords cobbled together and being freely distributed on hacker forums and torrents in the biggest aggregation of leaked credentials ever. As WIRED writer Andy Greenberg appropriately mused, the dump is like “throwing out the private data of a […]
Protect Your Email Inbox: Guarding Cybersecurity’s Greatest Treasure
There is a battlefield, and it exists inside every organization, in fact, inside nearly every device. This war is waged within the email inbox. The defenders of this battlefield are your employees. They are protecting this sacred ground from faceless attackers who daily have their sights set on malice. And in many respects, these faceless […]
The Art of Deception
Last week I posted an ad on Craigslist, and within a few minutes, I had a bite. I received a text from an out-of-state phone number, and the sender wrote that he wanted to call me via a Google voice number. The sender, who we will refer to as “he,” mentioned a text would come […]
We Can’t Do This Without You: Keeping TriCorps Safe in Cybersecurityspace
YOU can single-handedly sink this company. You can. This is not an exaggeration. Let’s go to the big board. IBM reports that it is more likely you will experience a data breach of at least ten thousand records (27.9%) than catch the flu (5-20%). The average cost of a data breach is a whopping $3.86 […]
You are our Greatest Asset Online: Protecting Yourself and TriCorps
Warren Buffett, considered the greatest investor of all time, recently said “I don’t know much about cybersecurity, but I do think it’s the number one problem with mankind.” – www.businessinsider.com Here are some statistics: $445 billion. That’s the total the World Economic Forum estimates will cost the global economy in 2016 thanks to cybercrime. That […]