Category: Cyber Security

It is quite a challenge to protect employees while they are working from home. Many IT teams find it difficult to pull this task off. As the organizations are following the government’s rules and shifting their offices to employees’ homes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, cyber attacks are increasing as well putting companies at more risks. Home security networks are less secure than the company networks which puts the employees working from home at a greater risk of falling for cyberattacks like phishing or business compromising emails. There already has…

Today the most common and dangerous email threats, phishing attacks are something that every modern organization in this day and age face at least once. Attackers are increasingly exploiting our reliance on email communication in this digital era. This is evident with the incident that nearly half of the said phishing attempts had been successful last year in 2020. However, what is the basis of phishing? IT security professionals must realize how such attacks function so they can guard expected victims from the end-users that phishing targets. Imagine the situation…

The internet has now become an inseparable part of every people and business. But every time a person (employee in general) opens any web browser, they potentially expose their organization to unknown threats and different types of malware, ranging from phishing threats to ransomware to Trojans and much more. It is, therefore, necessary for every organization to deploy a robust and stringent security system to combat such threats. This is where Browser Isolation comes into play. It plays a crucial role, as with it you can separate your web browsing…

Phishing is all about email fraud, which is a type of cyber-attack. A fraudulent person tricks the victims of such a crime into sharing their sensitive information such as passwords, financial information, and usernames. Phishing emails are one of the most popular ones and threatening online crimes that can target thousands of people at once. The advance form of this crime is Spear Phishing. It attacks a few targets using personalized emails. This personalization creates an assurance in the victim’s mind that the email is not a hoax. COVID 19…

Traditional passwords are cracked too easily nowadays. Hackers have tried a lot of different measures to steal the credentials and gain unauthorized access to private accounts by spear-phishing and pharming as well. According to Microsoft engineers in March 2020, there could have been a blockage by a multi-factor authentication solution (MFA) for 99.9% of the account compromise incidents they handle. What is Multi-factor Authentication Solution (MFA) A multi-factor authentication is a form of electronic authentication method that needs the user to offer two or more identity forms before they are allowed to…

There could be many things more threatening than just email hacking for small businesses. The worst could be someone having unauthorized access to your credit card ordering limitless pizzas, making racist comments from your account, or even making bomb threat calls. There are many lives that have become very unfortunate and have suffered the damages of a cybercrime. It has been proven that there are different cybersecurity layers in existence and if these are hacked, businesses could go bankrupt. Hence, small business managers must know about these layers to protect…

Cyber-criminals nowadays are going after your employees instead of your business systems. One of the leading reasons why there are data breaches around the world against organizations is due to the cyber-attacks that aim at individuals rather than the software. According to the experts, there are clear reasons behind this. It is quite easier to target people who are not that complex instead of targeting a much updated operating system or cloud system. These attackers follow the weakest chain. Threat to Businesses Some of the major challenges to businesses are…

Small Businesses face equal cybersecurity threats as large enterprises. A common myth for small businesses is the idea of security being so obscure that your business is considered too small a target. However, this is not the case. Attackers can target thousands of small businesses at once as they can increasingly automate attacks. Small businesses are often more targeted as they have less awareness of threats, less time and resources to invest in cybersecurity, and less stringent technological defenses. However, they are no less lucrative targets at the same time.…

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses are adopting work-from-home strategies so it is a given that cybersecurity is a trending issue. To target individuals and companies, cybercriminals are searching for opportunities to exploit coronavirus. Below are some ways in which businesses and employees can protect themselves online. Working from home is the new Normal As the world is trying to cope with the deadly COVID-19 and trying to find solutions to stop the spread of this pandemic, many of the common mass is trying to settle into a…