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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You may have seen the game show Password, where one partner gives clues and the other guesses the secret word. With the right hints, it’s easy for the guesser to get the password right. The same holds for cybercriminals trying to hack into your network by guessing your users’ passwords. Many Americans Are Not Making
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Here’s a cybersecurity trick or treat for you. It’s Halloween. You hear the doorbell ring. Would you answer your door without looking to see who’s on the other side? Would you leave your door unlocked, knowing the night will be filled with strangers looking for candy – or worse? Without multi-factor authentication (MFA), you’re essentially
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Preparing for Ransomware Attacks It seems like ransomware attacks have been continually in the news for the last several years. While we may be inundated with media reports of ransomware attacks targeting critical U.S. infrastructure or government agencies, the fact is that businesses large and small are also being targeted with such attacks daily. Approximately
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Amended Safeguards Rule from FTC On December 9th, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) amended the Safeguards Rule, the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, to put more meat on the bones of the previous rule. In this revision, the FTC has made the Safeguards Rule prescriptive by providing a list of actions and controls that are required
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Internal Penetration Testing What is Internal Penetration Testing? You may be thinking, “What even is an internal penetration test?” There is just something wrong about the phrase when you say it. The way it rolls off the tongue is just odd. Internal penetration testing is the act of mimicking a hacker to break into your
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How to Spot Tech Scammers Tech Scammers in the Wild Tech scammers are sneaky and aggressive. You are browsing the internet when all of a sudden… The browser you are using is locked and you can’t to exit out. The screen is completely red with flashing alarms. The text states your credit card/personal information
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