Cyberattacks on U.S. Federal Agencies: How Small Businesses Should Respond
The second half of 2022 saw a sharp rise in cyberattacks on the federal government. In fact, the second half of 2022 saw 95 percent more cyberattacks on federal governments than the second half of 2021. If cyberattacks victimize even the federal government, what can small businesses do to avoid [...]
The Impact of Cyberattacks on Your Business’s Reputation
A successful cyberattack on your business can be extremely costly. These costs may include legal fees, financial information leaks, hardware damage, investigations, and other financial consequences. But there are also indirect costs to a successful cyberattack. Several of these indirect costs can come from a loss of reputation. Depending on [...]
What You Should Know About Compliance Risk Management in 2023
When assessing risk to the organization, the conversation would only be complete with a discussion on compliance. This is especially true in 2023, as compliance mandates continue to evolve, and SMBs must understand which standards they must meet to meet current standards. Compliance risk management is identifying, accessing, and mitigating [...]
Why Your Employees Are the Biggest Threat to Your Cybersecurity Posture
What is an organization's most significant risk when defending against today's most prominent cybersecurity threats? It isn't its technology. What may surprise many SMBs is that, in many cases, the biggest risk to an organization is its people. According to the recent Verizon Data Breach Report, 82 percent of incidents [...]
How to Protect Employees From Account Takeover Attacks
Cyberattacks are on the rise worldwide, impacting businesses of all shapes and sizes operationally and financially. One type of attack represents a significant portion of these incidents that small and medium (SMB) business owners should ensure they are protecting themselves against — and that's the account takeover attack. Account takeover [...]
3 Things to Know About Callback Phishing
Cybercriminals are getting increasingly creative about how they're targeting small and medium businesses (SMBs). One of the latest innovations seeing massive growth is callback phishing, which rose 625 percent in frequency since Q1 2021. Phishing as a category overall is one of the most common vectors of attack that compromise [...]
Zero-Trust Architecture: Everything You Need to Know
Zero Trust has become one of cybersecurity's biggest buzzwords, but what does it mean? In short, Zero Trust assumes that all users and devices are insecure until proven otherwise and then implements the security architecture to support that. This concept is a significant departure from the traditional network security approach [...]
What is a Cybersecurity Maturity Model?
Cyberattacks have increased exponentially over the past few months, hitting businesses of all sizes and industries. Damages globally are estimated to have reached $6 trillion in 2021 and are on track to rise to $10.5 trillion by 2025 — a staggering sum. Small and medium businesses (SMBs) have proven particularly [...]
IT Security vs IT Compliance: Where Are the Differences?
When it comes to limiting risk for your business, many SMBs turn to compliance as the gold standard to build their cyber strategies (and conveniently also help avoid pesky fines). However, it's important to note that implementing a good IT security strategy is different from meeting compliance needs. There are [...]
When to Use Breakout Rooms in Microsoft Teams
Many small and medium business (SMB) owners are now beginning to take advantage of the virtual collaboration tools as they look to replicate the in-person work experience for remote workers. One new tool to help with this task is Microsoft Teams Breakout Rooms, which allows for the creation of smaller [...]