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Social Engineering: How Organizational Attackers Gain Influence

November 25, 2015 • Published by
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Social engineers play to people’s wants and needs, focusing on the mental triggers that can make a person do something. Learn what you can do to combat it.

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Building Confidence in Your Security Posture

November 9, 2015 • Published by
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Today’s unprecedented breach activity—and the high costs breached companies are paying as a result—are causing executive teams to sit up and take notice. Those responsible for organizational IT are finding themselves under increasing pressure to reinforce and report on a strong security posture to stakeholders.

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Yes, Phishing is Still a Big Problem

October 23, 2015 • Published by
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Phishing remains a top organizational security vulnerability because it involves the exploitation of human weakness. If you have humans at your workplace—and we all do!—then you are at risk.

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Social Engineering and Your Business

June 25, 2015 • Published by
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Last week’s news that the popular password manager LastPass had been breached sent many of its users into a panic, rushing to change their “master passwords.” The reality of the situation is, however, that the stolen master password data was well hashed, making it essentially useless to those on the outside. So there’s absolutely no worry then, right? Wrong.

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Eastern Europe: Closer Than You Think!

April 8, 2015 • Published by
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While your bank is doing all it can to keep cybercriminals from accessing your merchant account, your own staff could be undermining the bank’s efforts.

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Exploring Security Awareness Training Services

January 28, 2015 • Published by
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There are many product companies and service providers offering Security Awareness Training services. In fact, just today ControlScan announced its broadened Security Awareness Training Service. Of course when you have a plethora of options, it can be challenging to zero in on the right service provider.

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How to Quantify ROI from Security Training

January 23, 2015 • Published by
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How do you quantify ROI from Security Awareness Training of your employees? This is a question that every IT Security Manager has in his/her mind. Compliance mandates and government legislation exhort companies to roll out Security Awareness Training to employees, but is it worth the investment ?

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Why is Security Awareness Training Important?

December 5, 2014 • Published by
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Whether your business has 1, 101 or 1001 employees, each person must understand the role they play in protecting the organization’s informational assets, which often include sensitive employee and customer information.

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3 Key Lessons from Recent Healthcare Breaches

October 21, 2014 • Published by
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According to independent research by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), 259 Medical/Healthcare facilities experienced a data breach event between January 1 and October 14 of this year. That is a staggering number, given that ITRC reported a total of 28 events for the entirety of 2013.

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Data Security: Should We All Just Throw in the Towel?

October 20, 2014 • Published by
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Lately it seems we’ve been operating in a world of “another week, another breach.” The constant bombardment of news featuring our favorite brands getting hacked typically creates one of two reactions: “Yeah, but I’m a little shop, so that can’t happen to me” or “I might as well not bother trying to prevent the inevitable.”

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