Keeping money and ideas safe from outsiders is relatively easy. But what happens when you have to keep them safe from insiders? Asset misappropriation is a type of fraud that employees commit in their organizations, usually taking advantage of their position. This makes it not only harder to prevent but also difficult to identify if you don’t have the right systems in place.

Business continuity is at the forefront of most systems and process design at Indusface. In a recent blog, we discussed how Indusface follows design-for-failure principles a powerful approach that enables us to deploy faster. In this blog, I will talk about the processes we have to ensure that our code and rule deployments do not cause widespread downtime to our protected assets.

It is possible for your credit to be frozen without your knowledge. A credit freeze stops creditors from accessing your credit report, which can prevent them from approving new loans in your name. Credit freezes do not expire, so to remove them, you must contact each of the three major credit bureaus: Experian, TransUnion and Equifax. Most people place credit freezes if they suspect their personal information or identity was stolen since credit freezes help protect from fraud.

Breakdancing is coming to the world stage while French citizens stage a creative protest with the hashtag “JeChieDansLaSeineLe23Juin.” We’ll leave the dirty research on that to you. Regardless, the ramp-up to the 2024 Paris Olympics is proving to be an exciting and controversial affair. However, the Olympic call isn’t reserved for top athletes and sports enthusiasts. It’s also a prime opportunity for scam artists and fraudsters to exploit an influx of tourists.

In the world of government-adjacent security and compliance, there are many different terms and acronyms you’ll encounter for the processes you have to perform. Often, these terms are interrelated in a single process, so you tend to learn them in clusters. One such cluster includes STIGs, SRGs, SCAP, and CCIs. What are these, what do they mean, and what do you need to do to utilize them properly? Let’s answer the most commonly asked questions.

A new phishing scam is leveraging trusted aspects of ecommerce to make their scams look legitimate. Perception Point has spotted a new level of credibility used by phishing scammers in which fake payment pages include the use of legitimate support chat. Spoofed payment pages resembling marketplace, like Etsy and Upwork, ask business owners to “claim” payments for products or services sold.

As expected, threat actors are taking advantage of the global IT outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update last Friday, SC Media reports. We've been covering this story and it looks like the campaigns have only continued.

The cybersecurity threat landscape is constantly evolving, requiring organizations to regularly evaluate their security stack to ensure it not only offers the highest level of protection, but is operated by a firm with a long track record of developing, implementing, and properly maintaining the highest quality security tools.

You’ve worked tirelessly to build your business, carefully assembling a team you trust. However, even the most successful companies face an unsettling reality—the risk and the impact of employee fraud. Occupational fraud costs businesses up to 5% of annual revenue, with $3.1B lost to fraud in 2024. Here, we discuss practical strategies for detecting and preventing employee fraud. We look at various types of fraud, red flags to watch for, and prevention tactics to protect your business.

Elastic Security has exceptionally powerful capabilities that surpass those of smaller vendors Elastic Security has achieved remarkable results in the recent AV-Comparatives Business Security Test, ranking in the top five with other notable security vendors. Elastic Security was identified as being in the larger end of the market and offers exceptionally powerful tools with capabilities that surpass those of smaller packages.