During the summer months, when employees and customers are away on vacation, things usually slow down for businesses. But for cybercriminals, the opposite is true because they are busy taking advantage of minimal staffing levels in companies during the vacation period to launch complex attacks. The U.S. Federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), warns that the risk of being hit by a cyberattacks rises over the holidays and summer vacation-themed phishing attacks gain momentum.
Implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA) is undoubtedly the best way to protect your company and its data. However, when it comes to identity management, both users and administrators tend to demand a balance between efficiency, convenience, and security, all at the same time. It is a difficult challenge, but one that can be met. This is mainly because users may see MFA as a barrier that creates friction during use that can slow down productivity.
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) alerts are what happens when an EDR system decides that event data from an agent installed on an endpoint, or several endpoints, shows a potential threat. This doesn’t mean that every EDR alert is a malicious event in progress. Many are “false positives” or malicious behaviour that is actually not a threat.
Business email compromise (BEC) continues to be one of the fastest growing and most risky attack vectors for companies, as it has become a multimillion-dollar business that causes almost 80 times more losses than ransomware.
Windows 10, which is still the most widely deployed operating system on desktops, has announced end of support for October 14, 2025. The current version, 22H2, will be the last version of Windows 10, which means that Microsoft will stop providing support and security updates for that particular version and any vulnerabilities discovered after the EOL (End of Life) date will not be fixed by Microsoft, leaving your operating system, and that of your customers, exposed to security risks.
The debate surrounding the integration of best-of-breed versus a single-vendor security platform has been discussed for some years. On one side, we have niche solutions that offer a specialized approach to addressing cybersecurity challenges. On the other side, there are the potential benefits of a consolidated platform that promises seamless interoperability for an exponential improvement of security posture.