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5 Reasons Why Your Cybersecurity Approach Should Be Risk-Based

Blog Articles, Business/Corporate/Enterprise, Cyber Awareness, Employee Training, Facts & Stats / Ben Kapon

While cyber threats may not be in your control, your cybersecurity strategy is – and it should be risk-based. A risk-based approach to cybersecurity means that your security team is primarily concerned with reducing your organization’s likelihood and vulnerability in case of a cyberattack. A risk-based approach begins with an understanding of your business’s critical […]

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4 IoT Security Risks in Your Normal Day

Best Practices, Blog Articles, Cyber Awareness / Ben Kapon

The internet of things (IoT) plays a big role in our everyday routine, whether we realize it or not. These include things like the wireless speaker playing music at your favorite coffee shop to the wireless printer at your office. Although this increased connection makes many tasks convenient and accessible, it opens up a lot

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DoorDash Data Breach Exposes Nearly 5 Million Users. Here’s How to Protect Yourself

Best Practices, Blog Articles, Cyber Awareness, Facts & Stats / Ben Kapon

The food delivery service confirmed a data breach exposed the records of 4.9 million, including customers, delivery workers, and merchants. Hackers stole information including: names, email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, passwords, and partial credit card and bank account numbers. The passwords exposed the DoorDash data breach were “hashed and salted” -this means there were

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5 Ways Virtual Simulations Drastically Improve Your Cybersecurity Strategy

Best Practices, Blog Articles, Business/Corporate/Enterprise, Cyber Awareness, Employee Training / Ben Kapon

You can’t control whether your organization is the target of a cyber-attack, but you can control how prepared you are to handle it. Cybersecurity is essentially contingent on human interactions between the user, the defender, and the attacker. Kaspersky Lab reports that 90% of corporate data breaches are caused by social engineering attacks and employee

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Phishing, Vishing, Smishing: Why These Attacks Are on the Rise

Blog Articles, Cyber Awareness, Facts & Stats / Ben Kapon

Most of us have seen it. An email asking you to collect your large inheritance. A Nigerian prince who would like to send you his fortune for safekeeping. These types of scams have been around for years. By now, many of us should be aware that this is a typical phishing attack. The golden rule

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Cybersecurity is No Longer Good-to-Have, It’s the Law

Blog Articles, Cyber Awareness, Facts & Stats / Ben Kapon

By now we should all know that human error accounts for 95% of data breaches, and that cyber security should be a company-wide concern. We know cybersecurity is good-to-have, and now, finally, it is also necessary to have. While it may have taken government regulations a bit to catch up with cyberspace, there has been

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5 Ways to Stay on Top of Cyber Tech Trends

Best Practices, Blog Articles, Cyber Awareness / Ben Kapon

The cyber world is expanding faster than ever before, with technological breakthroughs occurring more often than any one person could count. Keeping up with emerging cyber technology can feel like a daunting task, especially when it comes to distinguishing which trends are fads versus which are here to stay. That said, it is necessary task

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Data Breaches 101: Why They Happen and What Data Gets Stolen

Blog Articles, Cyber Awareness, Facts & Stats / Ben Kapon

In the past years, headlines like “Company Loses Millions From Recent Data Breach” have become more common than ever. Even major international brands like Yahoo!, Marriott International, Equifax, and many others have suffered the wrath of hackers looking to make a profit. What is a data breach anyway, and why does it happen? What Is

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The Capital One Data Breach: What to do if Your Data was Compromised

Best Practices, Blog Articles, Business/Corporate/Enterprise, Cyber Awareness / Ben Kapon

Capital One was the target of a recent cyber hack that exposed sensitive information of over 100 million Americans and roughly 6 million Canadians. Consumers and even small businesses who applied for credit cards from 2005 to 2019 were affected, including applications that were rejected. What makes this data breach particularly bad is the type

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4 Damaging After-Effects of a Data Breach

Blog Articles, Business/Corporate/Enterprise, Cyber Awareness, Facts & Stats / Ben Kapon

The International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that by 2020, a quarter of the world’s population will have been affected by a data breach. In today’s hyper-connected world, these breaches are a looming threat for many organizations and their leaders. For example, Oracle’s Mark Hurd notes a data breach as one of the greatest concerns for

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Cyber Awareness

5 Reasons Why Your Cybersecurity Approach Should Be Risk-Based

4 IoT Security Risks in Your Normal Day

DoorDash Data Breach Exposes Nearly 5 Million Users. Here’s How to Protect Yourself

5 Ways Virtual Simulations Drastically Improve Your Cybersecurity Strategy

Phishing, Vishing, Smishing: Why These Attacks Are on the Rise

Cybersecurity is No Longer Good-to-Have, It’s the Law

5 Ways to Stay on Top of Cyber Tech Trends

Data Breaches 101: Why They Happen and What Data Gets Stolen

The Capital One Data Breach: What to do if Your Data was Compromised

4 Damaging After-Effects of a Data Breach

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