Research Confirmed: More Security Awareness Training required At the Black Hat USA 2016 conference in Las Vegas earlier this month, Thycotic, a specialist in privileged account management (PAM) solutions, surveyed more than 250 attendees who self-identified as hackers (respondents remained anonymous). Hackers believe no password is safe from a determined attacker, but they agree that [...]
Security Training at Most Companies is Woefully Lacking Human error and lack of internal security awareness are the biggest sources for data breaches and risk to organizations. Yet 78% of SMBs conduct security training just once a year (or less). According to Shred-it’s 2016 Security Tracker survey (conducted by Ipsos), US companies are failing to [...]
How to secure your small business against data breaches and hacks. E-commerce and security experts offer 10 tips for preventing security breaches, hacks and security of customer data. Cybersecurity - and security breaches of systems- remains a hot topic. SMEs and e-commerce companies, especially those that use an open source platform, are particularly susceptible [...]
Whaling? Whaling, the phenomenon you're likely better known than the word itself. Whaling is another form of phishing in which it does not involve the retrieval of data, but rather to carry out an action such as activating a payment. The procedure is as follows: A so-called familiar or executive from the management will contact [...]
