Did you know that small businesses experience cyber incidents at roughly the same rate as drivers experience car accidents? Though most of us would never go without auto insurance, a majority of small businesses don’t have cyber liability insurance coverage. According to the 2018 Small Business Cyber Insurance and Security...
Did you know that more than 50 percent of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) experienced a cyber-attack in the previous year? Cybercriminals tend to be opportunistic. They target the unprepared. Unfortunately, far too many SMBs don’t have a plan to prevent or respond to cyber-attacks. SMBs...
It looks like 2018 is going to be a record year for data breaches…in a bad way. Gemalto, a global digital security provider, released its Breach Level Index for the first half of 2018. It revealed a mix of good, bad and ugly. When compared...
Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks are sophisticated scams that commonly use social engineering, phishing and spoofing to compromise legitimate business e-mail accounts. In 2017, the FBI reported receiving 15,690 BEC complaints with BEC losses topping $675 million. The FBI warns small, medium and large businesses...
An inconvenient truth. That’s how a growing number of us view data security breaches. There are victims and soon-to-be-victims. However, despite the seemingly endless stream of data breaches, organizations cannot afford to take a passive approach to data security and cyber threats. Just ask Yahoo! In...
It has gotten to the point where we can barely keep up with all the data security breaches. We are no longer surprised to hear that another data breach exposed the sensitive personal information exposed of thousands (or millions!) of people. What’s worse is that many of...
What’s worse than filing your taxes? Finding out that your return was already filed and your refund check was already cashed. Yep, that’s definitely worse. Unfortunately, tax season has become the time of year when many first discover that their identities have been stolen. According to...
Cyber threats and data security remain a big concern for individuals and businesses alike. But sometimes, the most effective cybersecurity comes down to the little things, like using strong passwords, installing security updates and keeping your car’s key fob in the freezer. Wait, what? It’s true....
Did you know that there will be nearly 21 billion devices connected to the Internet by 2020? According to Gartner, an information technology research company, 5.5 million new devices are connecting every day. This rapidly growing network of Internet-enabled physical devices capable connecting, communicating and identifying...