The Human Firewall: How Employee Training Can Strengthen Your Cybersecurity Defense
As a business owner, you’ve probably felt the frustration of watching your employees fail to understand something you assumed was obvious to everyone involved. Unfortunately, this frustrating situation can happen in cybersecurity just as easily as anywhere else. A little well-placed human error can throw a wrench in even the [...]
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 [...]
Why Security Compliance is Not a One-Time Event: The Importance of Staying Up to Date
"Security compliance" refers to staying updated with modern cybersecurity standards and regulations defined by some authority group, usually a government entity such as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). These regulations are put in place to protect employees and businesses and lay out formal guidelines for cybersecurity best practices. It can [...]
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 [...]
Can Your Employees Spot Phishing Attacks?
Chances are you've heard the term "phishing" at some point. While you may not be too familiar with the term, here's the thing: Everyone needs to understand it at some level, especially if you own a business. What is phishing? As Phishing.org defines it, phishing is "a cybercrime in which [...]
Report: 90% of Organizations Have Microsoft 365 Security Gaps
In CoreView’s recent survey Security Benchmark Report on Microsoft 365, researchers studied the Microsoft 365 usage of over 1.6 million users. The results are shocking. There were significant security issues with every single organization in the study. Of the organizations studied, 90 percent struggled with password policies, multi-factor authentication, email [...]
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 [...]
What Zoom’s New Mandatory Client Updates Mean for SMBs
This month, Zoom released a support document introducing a "minimum client version" requirement to its users. "Requiring a minimum client version" is a roundabout way of saying that users are now required to install updates every 90 days or be cut off from using the app entirely. This change can [...]
Report: Cyberattack Costs for US Businesses up by 80%
Over the past year, we have seen headlines about cyberattacks targeting businesses and individuals worldwide. From ransomware to data breaches, attacks increased in severity and frequency, rising 17 percent in 2021 over the prior year. With this rapid rise, it’s no surprise that businesses are starting to feel the costs. [...]
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 [...]