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How Penetration Testing Showed Me What’s Missing in Security

December 1, 2022

It’s critical to change employee training about cybersecurity. AI platforms can help address the technical aspects of security concerns, as well as the human ones. This can be done through extensive employee training, specifically catered to determine what points need extra attention.

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Report Shows Appalling State of Employee Awareness of Common Cyber Security Risks

October 25, 2021

KnowBe4's State of Privacy and Security Report found that employee awareness of cybersecurity best practices is so appalling that most workers cannot identify common security risks.

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Cyber Security Insights

Ransomware: From Minor Annoyance to a Significant Global Threat

August 17, 2021

Ransomware has quickly grown from an annoyance to a life-threatening problem plaguing organizations in all industries. Organizations should address the two most common attack vectors, open RDP on the internet and the human factor.

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You Are the Weakest Link, Goodbye!

August 16, 2021

Employees are continuously deemed the “weak link” in any organizational cybersecurity simply because convenience is nearly always chosen over security. How can we shift this dynamic?

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What To Do When Your Organization Become the Victim of a Phishing Attack

July 20, 2021

Knowing the common manipulative tactics – exploiting every emotional hot button (anxiety, uncertainty, urgency) – used in phishing is the first step to understanding how to identify and deflect them; and it requires a repetitive process.

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ISF Proposal for “Human-Centered Security” Focuses Security Awareness on People’s Interactions With Technology

December 7, 2020

The Information Society Forum (ISF) believes that human-centered security is the way forward. Security awareness thus must stay in tune with expected patterns of behavior and psychological realities.

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Cyber Security Insights

Cyber Security Goes Beyond the IT Department, and Across the Whole Organisation

June 25, 2020

Security awareness trainings and regular cyber attack simulations can help build a solid cyber security culture that stretches to every corner of the company.

Security Awareness

How Penetration Testing Showed Me What’s Missing in Security

Report Shows Appalling State of Employee Awareness of Common Cyber Security Risks

Ransomware: From Minor Annoyance to a Significant Global Threat

You Are the Weakest Link, Goodbye!

What To Do When Your Organization Become the Victim of a Phishing Attack

ISF Proposal for “Human-Centered Security” Focuses Security Awareness on People’s Interactions With Technology

Cyber Security Goes Beyond the IT Department, and Across the Whole Organisation

New CISA Report Ties Recent Cyber Attacks on Critical Infrastructure to Russian Intelligence Unit

Mitigating Election Disinformation

July’s Disney Data Breach Included Financial and Strategy Secrets, Cruise Passenger and Staff PII

Avis Car Rental Suffers a Data Breach Impacting Nearly 300,000 Customers