It was Ott Biederman, an accountant for American organized crime back at the turn of the 19th century that originally issued the famous immortal line, “Nothing personal, its just business.” That is what ransomware is today – just business. While there are occasional ransomware attacks initiated by state-sponsored groups to bring down the operations of…

Businesses don’t often compare themselves to nations, but they have at least one important thing in common – the need to handle threats across multiple spheres or environments. Nations must be on constant alert to security threats from land, air, sea, space and – increasingly – cyberspace. Depending on the complexity of your cyber infrastructure,…

If given a choice between doing something that took a lot of time and effort for what you perceive as very little payoff or just skipping the task altogether, which would you choose? Although we’d all like to think we’d buckle down and do the work, the truth is that most people wouldn’t, particularly if…

Phishing Campaigns Are No Match For Analysts With These Skills Phishing campaigns are all too common these days. A look back at 2020 showed that 75% of companies globally suffered from an attack. In the United States, 74% of attacks were successful, a 14% increase from 2019, proving bad actors are getting smarter and using more…

Cyber security is a top concern for every company. As the CISO, leading the charge to keep your company secure from hackers and attacks falls squarely on your shoulders, but it’s certainly not a job you can do on your own. Security and the measures your company takes to remain as secure as possible are…

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from our vast experience in cybersecurity, it’s that cybercriminals don’t discriminate: for the most part they are not looking at location or even industry in their attacks, rather holes to climb through for a breach.   Like many target-driven professions (if we can call cybercrime a profession), cybercriminals look for the path of least…