The Most Common IT Security Risks

IT security is what protects a business from being taken advantage of. A business cannot be safe without awareness of the lurking dangers, and plans to deal with them. Advancements in technology have allowed attackers to find new ways to get into secure systems. This is why it’s so important to know the most common…

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How to Protect Yourself from MFA Vulnerabilities

Security experts agree; there is a soaring rise in Multi-Factor Authentication (or MFA) vulnerability attacks. In the face of most offices now being forced to work remotely, concerns are growing about its reduced effectiveness in the face of staff absences. Let’s go over how Multi-Factor Authentication protects your data, what vulnerabilities we know of in…

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Best Cybersecurity Practices for Your Company

Best Cybersecurity Practices for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Small and medium businesses now share cybersecurity threats that large enterprises handle daily. Since far more people work from home, IT staff in enterprises of all sizes have to deal with more vulnerabilities than ever. As small and medium-sized businesses also have less of a cybersecurity budget…

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How AI Can Help Your Company Avoid Cyber Threats

How AI and Machine Learning Can Thwart (or Assist in) Cyber Threats AI and machine learning tools are critical for handling today’s cybersecurity threats because AI and machine learning are now also in the hands of criminals. The threat of cybercriminals weaponizing AI and machine learning to boost and expand their attacks is all too…

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How Human Perception Can Increase Security Risks

Perception Biases in Information Security Threats (and How to Mitigate Their Risks) The current situation with the pandemic presents both technological and human-factor challenges for security. To maintain both personal and organizational security, people must make realistic observations of security risks.  Here are the different cognitive biases we make, how it affects information security, and…

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How to Efficiently Work from Home

How to Keep Your Network Safe While Working at Home Because of the pandemic, many companies need to work remotely. As a result, they are struggling to maintain business continuity and security. The need to migrate all office work to online platforms exposes businesses to more risks of cyberattacks. The tasks business owners must juggle…

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That RFP Email May Not Be What It Seems!

RFP Emails Aren't What They Seem

Beware RFP Emails According to the Better Business Bureau Did you think we’d ever need to talk about RFP Emails? Well, it’s a new month, so there must be another cyberscam to worry about, right? Well, of course there is! This latest warning comes from the Better Business Bureau, and this con utilizes an email…

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Phishing First Aid

Your work day has just begun. You’re waiting for your coffee to cool enough to sip as your computer powers up. You open your email inbox. You see a message from your bank. You bemusedly wonder why your bank is sending a message to your work email rather than your personal address. You open the…

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Fearsome Amex Phishing Scam

We know this horror story: A trusted character is not who (or what) others think he is. Typically, movie audiences get to see the creature’s eyes glow or go all black when the onscreen victim isn’t looking. Devils behind a recent phishing scam that targeted American Express accounts, however, were fiendishly clever about hiding their…

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