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Cybersecurity in a Cycle: Balancing Repair and Replacement for Optimal Security

Regularly updating your policies, software, and systems is crucial to your long-term cybersecurity efforts. However, failing to properly plan these updates can undermine your continuity plans and impede your business's productivity and profitability. As a cybersecurity specialist, you can balance repairs and replacements by creating a dynamic, adaptive strategy that accounts for industry trends and responds to emerging threats without causing unnecessary expenses to the company.

The Human Factor in Cybersecurity: Behavioral Insights and Mitigation Strategies

Whether it's clicking on a malicious link or being duped by social engineering tactics, people can unintentionally open the door to significant security breaches for organizations of all sizes. These mistakes aren’t inevitable or limited to any one role—they can happen to anyone, from top executives to customer service reps—but they are preventable with the right knowledge and constant vigilance in place.

2024 Cyber Resilience Research: Aligning Retail Cybersecurity with Business Priorities

New data illuminates how retail leaders can prioritize resilience. In today’s retail environment, businesses embrace dynamic computing and other technological innovations to enhance operations and customer experiences. However, as these advancements accelerate, so does the risk of cyber threats.

Here's How Phishing Messages Break Through Email Filters

Phishing is an email-borne malicious technique aimed at learning the sensitive credentials of users or spreading malware. This practice has been on the list of the top cyber threats to individuals and businesses for years. According to the latest Phishing Activity Trends Report by APWG, the total number of phishing attacks identified in Q1 2024 exceeded 963,000.

The Hidden Risks of Internet of Bodies (IoB): Cybersecurity in Healthcare Devices

The Internet of Bodies, or IoB, represents a groundbreaking shift in the healthcare industry, connecting vital health management devices like pacemakers, insulin pumps, and health monitors to the Internet. While these advancements come with many remarkable benefits, they also expose these essential devices to new cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

Cybersecurity Compliance as a Service: Your Ticket to Saving Money, Time, and Sanity with Cybersecurity Compliance

Maintaining Cybersecurity compliance is an arduous task, fraught with challenges. It's costly and time-consuming, and often, the complexity of regulations outpaces an organization's ability to manage them effectively.

Securing Networks: Evaluating Hardware Firewalls

In today's digital world, where digital threats loom large and data breaches are a constant concern, safeguarding your business network is vital. In the collection of cybersecurity tools at your disposal, hardware firewalls are a fundamental defense mechanism for organizations. This article delves into the pros and cons of hardware firewalls, examining their importance in network security, possible disadvantages, and factors to consider when implementing them.

How to Use Mailvelope for Encrypted Email on Gmail

In the previous blog we covered how to use PGP keys for encrypting and decrypting emails on desktop clients like Thunderbird and Outlook. Now, let's take a look on securing your emails without too much hassle using OpenPGP on webmail services like Gmail using the Mailvelope extension for Google Chrome.

Linux For Beginners

Welcome to the world of Linux! This blog will take you on a step-by-step journey on how to get familiar with Linux if you are a new user. By the end, you'll have an understanding of Linux and how to use it effectively. Linux is an open-source operating system that manages your computer's hardware and software resources. Unlike proprietary systems like Windows and macOS, Linux is free to use, modify, and distribute.

The State of Phishing-Resistant MFA

In our increasingly interconnected world, the specter of cybercrime looms larger than ever, casting a shadow over people, businesses, and governments alike. Among the slew of cyber threats bombarding entities daily, phishing attacks are a particularly pernicious menace. With each day, bad actors hone their techniques, leveraging the latest tools and psychological tactics to craft sophisticated phishing campaigns that are clever enough to defy all but the closest scrutiny.