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Small and Medium Businesses Account for Nearly Half of all Ransomware Victim Organizations
As ransomware costs increase, along with the effectiveness and use of extortions, smaller businesses are paying the price, according to new data from Webroot. Small businesses seem to be easy prey for ransomware gangs, according to Webroot’s just-released BrightCloud Threat Report. Whether it’s an assumption (and possible realization) of less-than-adequate security and/or backups in place, […]
Posted: May 5, 2022 | View More »10 Reasons Why to Choose Azure for your Enterprise
Enterprises across the globe are realizing great success with business solutions powered by Cloud. They are redefining the way they do business with scalable & secure cloud-enabled enterprise applications. Globally, 90% of Fortune 500 companies are using Microsoft Azure to drive their business. Using deeply-integrated Azure cloud services, enterprises can rapidly build, deploy, and manage […]
Posted: April 18, 2022 | View More »A Lack of Employee Cyber Hygiene is the Next Big Threat
A new report suggests that everything from endpoints, to passwords, to training, to security policies, to a lack of awareness is all contributing to much higher risk of cyberattack. Employee cyber risk is a multifaceted issue that revolves a lot around cyber hygiene, according to new data in Mobile Mentor’s inaugural Endpoint Ecosystem Report. It […]
Posted: April 18, 2022 | View More »What is Penetration Testing and Why Does it Matter?
Penetration Testing (also called Pen Testing or Ethical Hacking) is a process by which your network is subjected to attempts to hack into it in order to identify vulnerabilities that could open your company up to data breaches. This is an audit that provides a point-in-time analysis, along with a report on the security gaps […]
Posted: November 17, 2021 | View More »Five Signs of Social Engineering
Social engineering can come in many different forms: via email, websites, voice calls, SMS messages, social media and even fax. If it is a communication method, scammers and criminals are going to try to abuse it. Although the communication’s method may vary, the message the scammer is trying to convey has five traits in common. […]
Posted: October 13, 2021 | View More »79% of Employees Have Knowingly Engaged in Risky Online Activities in the Past Year
With employees not believing that it’s important to personally worry about cyber security risks, they also tend to believe they’re not a target, new data suggest as the reason for the risky behavior. In most cyberattacks, the employee plays some role – clicking on a malicious attachment, giving up their corporate credentials to an impersonated […]
Posted: August 16, 2021 | View More »80% of Ransomware Victim Organizations Experience a Second Attack
The impact of ransomware attacks is much more than just the sensationalized cost of ransoms. New data spells out how victim organizations have suffered at the hands of ransomware. With the future of ransomware looking pretty bleak, it’s important for organizations like yours to have a realistic understanding of just how impactful a single successful […]
Posted: August 16, 2021 | View More »Ransomware Attacks This Year Are Already Higher Than 2020
According to the 2021 Cyber Threat Report by SonicWall, 304.7 million ransomware attacks occured in the first half of 2021, already surpassing the total number of ransomware attacks for all of 2020 with 304.6 million (a 151% increase YTD). The increase in ransomware attacks are due to the shift to remote work, allowing threat actors […]
Posted: August 16, 2021 | View More »Choosing a Cybersecurity Approach
In the first part of this series released on Tuesday, we set the stage for present-day ransomware attacks. These professional enterprises have developed (and continue to improve upon) automated technology that increases their reach and depth of attacks. Businesses can no longer take a wait-and-see approach or keep kicking the cybersecurity can down the road. […]
Posted: July 22, 2021 | View More »Ransomware Attacks Aren’t Just for Big Companies
While millions of Americans were celebrating a long Independence Day weekend, something sinister was happening behind the scenes. Considered to be one of the largest ransomware attacks ever, more than 1,000 businesses worldwide were suddenly locked out of their own IT systems with demands to pay up to $5 million each to regain access to […]
Posted: July 19, 2021 | View More »
