Episode Summary What are vishing and smishing? Simplified, vishing is voice phishing and smishing is text phishing. Phishing is when scammers or attackers attempt to trick users into revealing sensitive information, sending money, or installing malware. So how does this affect your business? Art Ocain and Fayon Atkinson from Corvus Insurance discuss some common […]
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Threat Actors: Breaking It Down As a business owner, there are so many things you need to worry about on a daily basis, like employee management, product competition, and customer satisfaction. The last thing you want to think about are threat actors looking for cyber vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, you need to be thinking about them, and
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Firewall Upgrades and Upkeep: Enhance Security Firewall replacements are often the most overlooked item of upkeep in a business. While businesses heavily rely on firewalls to protect their networks from cyber threats, many don’t comprehend the significance of regularly updating your firewalls, the risks associated with aging hardware, and the benefits of proactive maintenance.
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The Crown Jewels Analysis In the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity, it’s easy to get lost in a sea of complex tools, software, and acronyms. One approach that has proven to be invaluable is the concept of crown jewels analysis. MITRE explains that this process “provides a repeatable approach to capturing knowledge from organizational Subject Matter
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Fix Vulnerabilities with Effective Patch Management Software Development and Vulnerabilities Software development involves the creation of software designed to solve a problem or improve efficiencies within an organization. When writing the code, developers should use secure coding practices, known as development security operations (DevSecOps). Quality testing should also be performed to identify and address any
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Immutable backups are the modern-day answer to skyrocketing cybercrime. Cyber attacks continue to grow year after year, leading them to become the greatest transfer of economic wealth in history. A single ransomware attack costs an average of $1.85 million, and that’s an expense most startups and small businesses can’t afford. While cybersecurity tools and best
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Cyber resilience isn’t a nice-to-have—it’s a need-to-have. Cybercrime is on the rise, and the problem has shifted to when (not if) bad actors will attack your business. Reports show that 60% of small-to-medium-sized businesses around the world experienced a cyber attack in 2020, and 45% of the companies were ineffective at mitigating the attacks. In
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Topics From patches to passwords, vulnerabilities to who is vulnerable, listen in to Jason Rebholz (Corvus Insurance), Conor Quinlan (Airiam), and Art Ocain (Airiam) talk about how companies can best protect themselves. October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. To spread awareness on cybersecurity, Airiam and Corvus Insurance held an executive round-table on the hot topics related
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Hopefully, your employees know a foreign prince doesn’t really want to send them $1 million, and your systems probably block those types of phishing emails. But is your team prepared to avoid taking the bait as phishing attacks grow more sophisticated? Phishing topped the list of cybercrime according to the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report,
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Scarecrows have patched overalls to hold their straw bodies together. If their overalls get a hole, the straw falls out, causing the poor scarecrow to end up on the ground as a pile of hay. Not good. Scarecrows need to keep their pants patched. And IT teams need to patch their systems, or they leave
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