Category Archives: Cyber Security

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Vendor Cyber Risk Assessment: How to Answer One Without the Stress

The email lands on a Tuesday. A government agency, a funder, a big customer, or your insurance company wants you to complete a vendor cyber risk assessment. It's a spreadsheet with a long list of questions, a due date, and words like "NIST," "least...

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Don’t Make These Cyber Insurance Mistakes: Get the Requirements Right

Cyber insurance is critical to safeguarding businesses against the increasing prevalence of cyber threats. However, many business owners and leaders fall into common pitfalls when trying to meet the IT requirements for cyber insurance. Let's...

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How Hackers Use Social Engineering Tactics in Phishing Scams

Social engineering is a popular term in the cybersecurity industry. What is it, though, and why are companies so terrified? It is a type of hacking that induces victims to provide information by tricking and manipulating them. Social engineering...

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Educating Your Staff to Spot Social Engineering

One of the newest techniques used by hackers to gain private data is social engineering. This method uses human psychology to gather data rather than simply attacking a system. When you consider it, this approach is quite brilliant because it...

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Top 8 Phishing Scam Tactics and How to Identify Them

Phishing has been a common hacking method for over two decades now. You would think that everyone already knows how it works and how to avoid becoming a victim, right? Sadly, that is not the case for these Phishing Scam Tactics. There are more...

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Managed Endpoint Detection and Response: The best way to manage today’s...

Security used to be so simple for the average business. You installed anti-virus (AV) solutions, trained employees not to click on unknown links, and kept software and websites up to date. For a few low-risk companies, that may still be the case,...

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