Contact center agents, security teams, and even consumers themselves must strengthen their defences and understand their liabilities. The higher our collective “Fraud IQ” grows, the happier and safer honest people will be.
Cyber Security
Cyber criminals, state-sponsored hackers and even the occasional disgruntled employee are constantly looking to gain unauthorized access for a variety of purposes: theft of money, cyber espionage, personal information for sale or for use in scams, and damage to critical infrastructure for just a few of the most common.
So how does an organization mitigate an entire world full of continual cyber attacks? Just as buildings have a number of necessary elements of physical security: access control, cameras, alarms and so on; there are similar key elements of cyber security that are absolutely vital for just about any modern business.
It starts with identifying and closing the most common doors that attackers use. For example, phishing attacks on employees are far and away the most common initial point of entry. The breach of even a low-level employee account can quickly turn into an escalation in access privileges and the ability to reach sensitive information. This is also true of smart devices, which are generally more poorly secured than computers and phones.
With number of cyberattacks climbing, having a cyber insurance with the appropriate coverage can make a difference between a company surviving an incident and shutting down because of it.
DOJ seized 94,000 Bitcoins from a New York couple accused of laundering 119,754 Bitcoins from the 2016 Bitfinex cryptocurrency theft currently valued at $4.5 billion.
Meeting regulatory and legal compliance standards is not enough for cybersecurity today, effective data security requires companies to have a proactive mindset to challenge, enhance and improve.
To prevent a true calamity, we need to bolster our cyber resilience by evolving our approaches and responses to cyber threats, be they ransomware or state-sponsored attacks, by using extensive scenario planning and wargaming.
Microsoft Azure cloud container vulnerability allows an attacker to escape their container and compromise other user's containers on the same cloud services by executing malicious code.
The new FDA terms will have manufacturers submit a plan with new applications that demonstrates how they will monitor, identify and address cybersecurity issues, along with "reasonable assurances" that the medical devices are protected from cyber attacks.
According to Moody’s report, organizations tend to have upped their cybersecurity investments across the board, but with a strong preference for basic measures and cyber insurance.
The only way to keep a company’s defense up-to-date against ransomware attacks is with constant proactive activity from well-engineered cybersecurity teams.
The only way to truly understand and react appropriately to a security event is with context. Without context in detection and response, alerts become noise. Context lends a level of intelligence that aids in proper, proactive response.










