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What is Cybersecurity Architecture and Why is it Important?

Cybersecurity threats abound, and the pace of cybersecurity attacks is increasing steadily year after year. At the same time, consumers are also becoming more aware of cybersecurity harms, and demanding better performance from the companies with which they do business. Regulators hear that sentiment from consumers too, and are responding with ever more stringent rules for data privacy.

Top 7 Vulnerability Mitigation Strategies

Discover the best vulnerability mitigation strategies to help protect your business from potential threats with this guide from the team at Reciprocity. 2021 (and every year leading up to it) was the worst year on record for cybersecurity. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, cybercrime as a whole has increased by 600 percent.

How Compliance Can Strengthen Your Risk Posture

In the age of digital business, protecting your organization’s digital assets from cyber threats and reducing your cyber risk exposure has never been more important – or more complicated. At the same time, most organizations are also required to comply with numerous industry and government regulations that dictate standards for data privacy and IT security.

The Imperative of Managing Cyber Risk in Business Context

People have long used mission statements, declarations and manifestos to publicly convey the intentions, motives or views of its issuer. While the historical political landscape has long used these actions to challenge and provoke, they are also advertisements to gain attention and to spark action.

Driving Business Results with a Strategic Approach to Risk - and with ZenRisk

Every business activity involves risk, so simply viewing and measuring risk at a high level isn’t enough. InfoSec teams also need to identify and categorize risks as they relate to individual business activities and the context around them. Managing risk is all about delivering insights so that key stakeholders – including executives and the board – can better understand their IT risk posture and use that knowledge to make better business decisions. But where to start?

Building a risk management program? Start with compliance - and Reciprocity ZenComply.

Businesses are constantly adapting to changing circumstances. Yet, many are strapped for resources and view compliance as nothing more than a checklist of requirements to satisfy regulators or auditors which could short-change their business. At the same time, the pandemic has highlighted the necessity of risk management for every organization, and exposed the gaps that exist in many governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) programs today.

What is a Brute Force Attack: How it Works and How to Prevent it

Brute force attacks are nothing new in cybersecurity. As far back as 2015 (eons ago, in technology terms) the global coffee chain Dunkin’ Donuts suffered a brute force attack that targeted nearly 20,000 of its customers. In this attack, cyber attackers used brute force to get unauthorized access to the accounts of more than 19,000 users and steal their money. Following the incident, Dunkin’ Donuts was slapped with a lawsuit, where it ended up paying more than $500,000 dollars in a settlement.