Posts Tagged ‘cybersecurity’
When was the last time your kids received phishing training? Are you teaching them about good cyber hygiene?
Cybersecurity experts are warning this year that your students—mainly ones that are forging their own digital footprints—are growing targets of cybercrime this year.
As we alluded to a few weeks ago, cybersecurity is not simply something you can think about exclusively in the workplace. Today, if you are not taking basic precautions at home as well, you are likely leaving yourself, your family and your workplace vulnerable to cyberattacks.
Today, I want to focus on a specific cyberattack that we’ve been seeing repeatedly pop up in colleges and schools around the country. It’s an attack that might seem obvious to those of us with many years of getting phishing emails (although we have found that if you aren’t continuously getting training and don’t have technology in place to prevent occasional mistakes, your previous experiences will only help you so much).
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This summer you might have noticed a couple of new targets for cyberattacks.
Along with various town governments and hospitals, school districts have become a prime target for criminals. Schools handle a TON of personal data and often lack strong technology teams to keep their students’ data security. All of this leads to open targets for cyberattacks—something many cybersecurity experts are afraid of.
To help relieve some of the angst with back to school, I wanted to make sure you were considering some cybersecurity basics for your kids—whether they’re just starting out or nearing graduation this year. Practicing good cyber safety at an early age will help them keep their information secure through adulthood.
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With so many data breaches and cyberattacks to-date this year, damages resulting from those attacks are skyrocketing to unforeseen amounts. In the past few weeks alone, there have been a wide array of attacks wreaking havoc on organizations large and small, impacting over 100 million individuals in one of these instances.
Will investing in more security technology solve the problem?
Probably since I’m asking this question, you’re already thinking ‘no!’. What we have seen is that there are actually a lot of organizations investing in quite a bit of IT security products and services. The question not being asked is whether that money is being invested in the right places.
With tightening budgets elsewhere in your organization, I’m sure that investing additional money in security technology is something that you and your leadership are not entirely sold on. Much of the time there is no visible return on this investment and it’s hard to tell whether your spending money on the right tools to keep your organization secure long term.
Rather than ask if investing in technology will help solve our collective security problems now and in the future, is to ask am I spending money on security in the right places within the organization.
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Back in the 90’s we (as in security teams) were having discussions on the very scary possibility that an attacker could capture the contents on your monitor or screen from outside a building. This scare was mainly driven from companies concerned about their competitors gleaning information from their businesses.
My take on those concerns in the 90’s was if they’re actually spending enough money to pack a surveillance team outside of your house or company, they’re really making an effort. What we were faced with in the 90’s—the days of Mission Impossible and Tom Cruise—was entirely different than today. Different fears and what if’s. Most of them were probably not substantiated with any clear and present danger. Those Mission Impossible risks and attacks were (at least in retrospect) not well-founded.
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Countless businesses large and small have been involved in data breaches over the past year. From Delta to Best Buy, a huge number of big names have made headlines—the majority of these breaches stemming from third-party vendors not doing their security due diligence.
Across industries from healthcare to distribution to manufacturing, companies have started to worry about the devastating effects of cyberattacks and data breaches.
Not only will you have to pay hefty fines or face consequences to whoever is regulating your industry, but you’ll have to answer to clients and deal with eroded trust. The fact is that more than three-quarters of business go out of business within a year of a cyber event.
Be Wary Of Your Business Partnerships!
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