Cyber threats have become an ever-present part of modern life. From high-profile corporations to small companies, no business or organization is immune to these threats. Consequently, protecting your company is now a regular cost of doing business. What kinds of threats are we talking about? Here are some examples: Over the past few years, London’s […]
There’s good news and bad news. The good news: advances in technology have changed our lives in many positive ways. The bad news: crooks keep pace with technological innovations and adjust their scams accordingly. One of the many technology-based criminal scams is ‘vishing’. What is vishing? Impersonating a person or legitimate business to scam people […]
What is mobile application security? Mobile app security is the measure and means of defending mobile device apps from digital fraud in the form of malware, hacking, and other criminal manipulation. Mobile app security can be implemented by both technological means alongside personal responses and corporate processes intended to safeguard digital integrity on mobile devices. […]
When you first think of social media threats, what most people might point out are trolls, fake accounts and fake followers via purchased services, or maybe the “fake news” accusations flying about everywhere. What’s often overlooked in social media security, though, is how it can be used to harm organizations and their customers via threats […]
Companies can spend decades building a vibrant, engaged, and trusted brand—all to have it devastated and stripped away in mere moments by the fallout of online fraud. In this era of identity theft, data hacks, and virtual crime, your customers trust you to protect their private information and go above-and-beyond to defend them from being […]
Does your business have employees? If so, cyber security (and cyber security awareness) are critical to your survival in an industry dominated by growing virtual crime. Certainly, most people know about costly identity theft and reputation-destroying network hacks, which seem to be on the news almost every day. Organizations implement firewalls, comprehensive cyber security defense […]
Every year, the entirety of enterprise security incident response changes. New cybersecurity threats come onto the scene, based on new coding, new technologies, and new regulatory vulnerabilities that companies aren’t aware of yet. It’s a constantly shifting, evolving industry, which is why no organization should ever be complacent in their current security incident response plans […]
You’ve done everything possible to defend your business against cybercriminal attacks, be it phishing, malware, or any other online fraud plaguing the virtual markets these days. However, the data shows that no protection is 100% foolproof, and those who don’t plan for security failures are certainly doomed to experience it (and likely at a higher […]
The Dark Web is Empowering Financial Crime Financial fraud and digital economic attacks are occurring more than ever thanks to the rise of new technologies and the Dark Web—the portion of the internet unavailable through traditional browsers and only accessible via specific protocols and encrypted networks. Financial crime is hardly new, but this online underbelly […]
Throughout Cybersecurity Awareness Month, it might be easy to believe you’ve heard everything there is to know about protecting your business’ virtual assets. After all, in this age of identity theft and corporate data breaches, many companies have invested heavily in defending their internal networks and virtual infrastructures from hackers, malware, viruses, and other cybersecurity […]