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Smishing: A Sneaky Cyber Threat Targeting Your Business Cyberthreats are constantly evolving. One such threat, often overlooked, is smishing. This insidious technique leverages SMS messages to trick unsuspecting individuals into divulging sensitive information. While it may seem less sophisticated than phishing emails, smishing attacks can be equally damaging to businesses. When you realize that cybercrime …

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Protecting Your Assets: Conducting a Comprehensive Physical Security Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Businesses face significant challenges posed by cybersecurity threats. While much of the focus traditionally rests on protecting digital assets from cyberattacks, these threats are not confined to the virtual realm. Cybersecurity risks now extend into the physical world, endangering critical infrastructure, hardware, and operations. …

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Ensuring Customer Data Security at Auto Dealerships As an auto dealership owner, ensuring the safety of the cars in your lot is a headache that comes with the territory. When you add customer data security, we’re already in migraine territory.  Not only does your business’ success depend on it, but the law requires you to …

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Mitigate Cyber Risks: A Comprehensive Guide to Insurance and Network Security Life as a business owner in the 21st century means living with the existential threat of cyber attacks. However, you still have everything you can to protect your business against threats to your network and data stored online. The best plans are those with …

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Risks and Mitigation of Social Engineering Attacks As active members of a community, we engage with others in different scenarios and for various purposes. However, not every social interaction has positive intentions or leads to beneficial outcomes. Sometimes, our friendliness, need for reciprocity, loyalty, curiosity, or trusting nature can be easily exploited. Unfortunately, it is …

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The Impact of Bait Attacks on Businesses Even with all the technological advancements in cybersecurity, old-school social engineering tactics like bait attacks, phishing, and pretexting remain the most prominent and devastating threats to business data security.  More than 95% of reported cyberattacks did not require any form of technical sophistication. In most cases, it was …

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Professional Services Cybersecurity: Why and How Professional Services Cybersecurity is crucial for professionals like CPAs, doctors, and attorneys due to the sensitive data they handle. This includes financial records, medical histories, and legal information, all of which are extremely important and confidential. This is why cybersecurity professional services have become their own niche in a …

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Minimizing the Impact of a Data Breach on your Business Data breaches pose a significant threat to organizations worldwide, and the impact of a data breach can be far reaching. They occur when unauthorized individuals access sensitive information, ranging from personal data like Social Security and bank account numbers to valuable corporate assets such as …

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