Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have encountered increasing burdens over the last few years, from challenging economic conditions to a dramatically evolving cyber threat landscape. Today, 43% of cyber attacks are targeted at SMEs, and only 14% of targeted SMEs were prepared to handle such attacks. An astonishing 75% of those SMEs attacked could result in permanent closure if unable to recover data.

Organizations are tasked with the continuous challenge of having to keep up with advancing cyber threats and must change their security strategies for them to remain secure. Zero Trust Security is a response that demands identity validation from all users, devices, and networks, thus eliminating implicit trust altogether.

Disasters rarely strike with advanced notice. That’s especially true in the business world, where there’s no such thing as a business meteorologist to forecast potential threats that may beset a company’s personnel or assets. That’s where a Business Continuity Plan comes into play.

In the realm of cybersecurity, danger hides where we least expect it and threats never, ever, go out of style! Over the past few months, Trustwave SpiderLabs has seen a rising trend in threat actors employing PDF documents to gain initial access through email-borne attacks. Though the use of PDF files as a malicious vector is not a novel approach, it has become more popular as threat actors continue to experiment with techniques to bypass conventional security controls.