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Security tips for savvy shoppers ahead of the holidays.

Remote desktop protocol, email vector, and VPN — the three most common methods of ransomware attack. However, virtually 100% of all attacks still rely on human vulnerability, not software vulnerability. Making security awareness training one of your most valuable shields against ransomware.

Fraudsters who perpetrate BEC and various other types of email scams are a serious and continuous threat to businesses today. In 2019, there were 26.2 billion dollars in reported losses from these kinds of malicious malware attacks.

Business Email Compromise, or BEC, is a type of scam that utilizes social engineering to trick companies into paying fraudulent invoices or giving up sensitive information that can be used for a future attack.

About 85% of threats involve some sort of human interaction, and about 50% of organizations have experienced a successful phishing attack. So, attacks are overwhelmingly focused on people.

Senior Security Awareness Training Strategist Gretel Egan dives deep into user awareness, vulnerability and resilience.

When everyone is feeling overwhelmed by taxes and afraid of doing something wrong, that’s when the phishing, smishing, and website impersonation reaches its height. How can we reassure and train our employees about tax-related scams?

When we’re looking ahead at 2021 in information governance and regulatory changes, what will define the cybersecurity industry?

Governance, AI, analytics, and regulation — 2020 sure changed a lot. Good data hygiene looks totally different now, as does so much in the regulatory financial services realm.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. If you’re a hacker, that is.