Author name: Talia Brooks

Can You Talk the Talk? Has your CISO, CIO or CTO ever answered a question with technical double-talk and you didn’t know enough about the jargon to be sure they were just channeling their inner nerd self or trying to avoid answering your question? And did you stop and ask them for more clarification, or [...]

Four Ways to Improve Your Cyber Awareness We live in a world where sharing too much data – or the wrong data – is like asking to be hacked. It’s bad online security practice, particularly as phishing is on the rise. But data sharing, whether it’s with social media companies or engaging in unsafe behaviors

What is BEC? BEC refers to an email scam that targets specific people in an organization to either steal money, data or other confidential employee information. These email impersonations rely heavily on social engineering tactics. How does BEC work? Email is today’s top threat vector, accounting for 90% of advanced threats, and the ever-growing threats are

Businesses are moving online and with terabytes of data It's 2019. Businesses are storing huge amounts of data. This has made cyber attacks an imminent event. And one of the most threatening pathways of a cyber attack is malware. Malware is a malicious software that affects businesses on a daily basis, and attacks are on

How to spot Black Friday scams This holiday shopping season, it’s your emails you should be checking twice. As the holiday shopping season heats up, consumers begin buying gifts and donating to charities, and so scammers get busy too. Year after year, as the technology makes it more convenient for us, it also makes it

Don't get hacked Phishing and stolen credentials are still among the primary threat methods in breaches, and as hackers grow more sophisticated, employees and consumers have to get smarter about the credentials they use to access digital applications. On the flip side, companies also have to focus on effectively securing access to the applications people

Preventing phishing attacks What is phishing? Phishing emails are a method of trying to gather personal information, typically using disguised email as a weapon. The goal is to trick the email recipient into believing that the message is something they want or need — a request from their bank, for instance, or a note from