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 [...]
Browser Extension Threats: What You Should Know
For many users, the portal to the web is through a browser, such as Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Explorer, or Firefox. Most users have at least one browser, if not multiple, that they use daily. However, as with most popular pieces of technology, cyber attackers have set their sights on leveraging [...]
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 [...]
New Reports Show How Ad Accounts Are Being Hijacked Thanks to Phishing on LinkedIn
While cyber attackers have long gone after email as a way to hack their way into a victim's computer or network, they now have their eyes on a new target: LinkedIn. Unsurprisingly, LinkedIn is beginning to rise as an attack vector. According to the company, LinkedIn now has 830 million [...]
Report: 30% of Employees Don’t Understand the Importance of Cybersecurity
Over the past few years, we have seen an explosion of cybersecurity attacks targeting businesses of all sizes — from the largest enterprise to the smallest SMB. However, despite all these attacks splashing across headlines, new research shows that a third of employees still don't understand the importance of cybersecurity. [...]
Top 3 Risks of Collaboration Tools
Collaboration tools have only become more prevalent in our age of remote or hybrid work, as they enable employees, no matter where they are in the world, to work together on the same asset. This improves efficiencies within the workflow of a small and medium business (SMB) and makes it [...]
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 [...]