October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and it’s worth taking a minute to reflect on your security stance and what you can do better to protect sensitive data and accounts. The Current State of Cybersecurity in 2022 Cybersecurity incidents and data breaches continue to increase across all industries. A 2022 report noted a 42% increase in […]
When working in a critical sector like healthcare, business continuity planning is an essential task. In fact, organizations subject to HIPAA regulations must create a risk assessment that identifies the systems that contain sensitive data and plan for what happens to that data in case of an emergency. Once you understand what data is at […]
Business email compromise (BEC) attacks are on the rise and are poised to eclipse ransomware as the biggest threat to cybersecurity. Since 2016, $43 billion has been stolen through BEC. Even more concerning, there has been a 65% increase in BEC from 2019 to 2021. This article explores what business email compromise scams are and […]
Making backups of collected data is a critically important part of risk management. Backups provide redundancy in case of human errors, hardware failure, cyberattacks, power failure, and natural disasters. Properly implemented backups reduce risk and provide organizations flexibility when systems go down. Server outages, whether accidental or malicious, can be detrimental to business operations, and […]
This month, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) launched an initiative called MFA May to encourage individuals and businesses to enable multifactor authentication for their accounts. This article defines multifactor authentication and explains why organizations should implement it to improve the security of their accounts. What is Multifactor Authentication? Multifactor authentication requires users […]
