Posts by Robert Sarkes
How to Defend Against Reply-Chain Phishing When It’s Hard to Spot
Just about everyone is now familiar with the term “phishing.” These are messages that employ social engineering tactics to trick people into doing things, such as clicking on malicious links, downloading dangerous attachments, or sending passwords or other personal details. Phishing is unfortunately very common. Last year, 83% of organizations experienced phishing attacks coming through…
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Steps to Take After Your Work Laptop/Phone Go Missing to Reduce Risk
Something that can immediately make your stomach tie into knots is when you realize your smartphone or laptop has gone missing. Unfortunately, the same thing that makes mobile devices so popular, the fact that you can take them anywhere, also makes them more likely to be lost or stolen. About 70 million smartphones are lost…
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SMS Phishing is Becoming More Dangerous! (What to Look For)
The type of phishing that most people are familiar with comes in via email. It may be disguised as an email from a company you do business with or from someone in your organization. Phishing is the #1 threat to cybersecurity because it’s used to deliver just about every type of cyberattack. Ransomware, viruses, credential…
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How To Improve Security With Application Whitelisting
Traditional network protections have included stopping threats that are known. Legacy antivirus programs use a signature database of identified malware that is then used to match with incoming file attachments. Legacy firewalls would do a similar thing where the threats were cataloged in a database, then when an unknown application is spotted, it is matched…
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5 Employee Training Mistakes That Increase the Risk of a Breach
If you asked your employees to identify the main areas of an email to check for phishing, how would they score? Do they know the tenants of good password security? Employee security awareness training is a vital piece of your IT security strategy. Just as important as your firewall or anti-malware software. Employees are on…
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What Two Vital Components Are Often Missing from Backup & Recovery Plans?
Data loss from poor disaster recovery planning is all too common. Companies think that if they have installed a backup app on their PCs then they’re good to go should they suffer a hard drive crash or ransomware attack. But recovering quickly from a data loss incident takes more than just backing up data. You…
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4 Most Frequent Mobile Device Attacks & How to Protect Against Them
Mobile devices now conduct a majority of the online searches and account for about 60% of all the endpoints in a typical company. Smartphones and tablets have become a “go-to” for quick and easy access to both personal and business computing. Business apps make work accessible from mobile devices, and as tablet and phone screen…
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New Trends in Cloud Data Storage to Be On the Lookout For
It’s estimated that in 2021, at least half of all company data was stored in the cloud. This is an increase of 15% from just five years earlier. Cloud storage was one of the very first cloud services to be adopted widely, and it has become a necessity for most people. We use the cloud…
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4 Core Elements of Cloud Security to Incorporate in Your IT Strategy
Over the last decade, there has been a major shift in how companies work and where they store their data. At the beginning of the technology age, much of the software a company used was installed on hard drives of computers and servers that were kept on site. Data was similarly stored using offline methods,…
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How Can We Monitor Remote Team Performance Without Being Invasive?
Companies in Silicon Valley and the rest of the world are beginning to settle into the new normal – the hybrid working environment. You’ve undoubtedly heard the term “hybrid” being used to describe the new world of work quite often over the last several months. The pandemic significantly accelerated the move to a work-from-home environment…
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