When managers look into cybersecurity, two common options come up: penetration testing and an outsourced Security Operations Center (SOC). Both are valuable, but they address risks in very different ways. To make a good business decision, it helps to look at the trade-offs in terms of organizational disruption, financial cost, and the risk of assuming …
When it comes to protecting your company’s data and systems, two common options are penetration testing (pen testing) and an outsourced Security Operations Center (SOC). Both play important roles in cybersecurity, but they work in very different ways and one offers far more ongoing protection than the other. Let’s break it down in simple terms. …
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Key insights from our BEC (Business Email Compromise) Study using 50K emails counterchecked with HaveIbeenPwned.com. Key Insights based on the chart above Business Emails are relatively safer Majority (20,924) are not compromised (Null) Still, 16,689 appear in external breaches and 5,856 in personal exposures. This suggests that while many business emails remain safe, …
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As a business leader, you’ve worked hard to build a great team. You have a fantastic IT person—or a small, dedicated IT department—that keeps your network running, your software updated, and your employees productive. When a problem arises, they fix it. You’re covered, right? This is one of the most common and dangerous misconceptions in …
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Understanding the source of Business email compromise is only the first step. The next challenge is quantifying the risk to an enterprise when employee email accounts appear in one, two, or even multiple breaches. A single exposure might reveal basic credentials, but repeated compromises across different platforms often provide attackers with a fuller picture—combining passwords, …
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