Tag: phishing
MSPs need to deliver better employee training due to the rise of spear phishing
For businesses and the MSPs that serve them, achieving effective IT security requires a strategy with several layers of defense. To thwart potential breaches, most organizations understand that – at a minimum – endpoint access should be tightly controlled, data...
Gone phishing
When you have ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, and polymorphic malware to battle, it’s easy to put phishing education on the back burner. In fact, a new study shows that 95 percent of IT professionals underestimate its impact and fail to adjust...
Stop blaming your employees for your lousy security
Seems like every week we hear a story blaming employees for being lax about security. They have bad passwords or they fall for phishing scams. They do all kinds of things that compromise your company’s security position, but here’s the...
How Google neutralized phishing attacks and what you can learn from them
Google announced a remarkable achievement this week — not one of its 85,000 employees has been the victim of a phishing attack since the beginning of 2017. Phishing refers to when a hacker sends an email that looks authentic for...