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When it comes to defending against phishing attacks, your employees are one of the best lines of defense. Phishing targets users directly and has been so effective because it’s easier to trick a user than to conduct a brute force attack to do things like obtaining user login credentials or planting malware in a system.

Mobile devices are now used more than PCs in many companies. While that may seem like a stretch, just imagine how many times you use a mobile app to check Slack or Teams or reply to an email message while on the go.

Ensuring that user passwords don’t fall into the wrong hands can be challenging. Users often use weak passwords because of all the passwords they must deal with. It’s estimated that people now have about 100 passwords on average to remember.

Social engineering is the main underlying tactic used for phishing of all types. Whether it’s email phishing attacks, social media phishing, “vishing” (phone scams), or another type of scam.

Phishing attacks continue to be a major driver of data breaches, ransomware, spyware, credential theft, and other types of online attacks. No matter how big or small your company is, it’s not immune to receiving phishing emails or having an employee accidentally click on one.  

Two terms that can sometimes be confused when it comes to enterprise IT security management are SIEM and SOC. Both are important for securing business data and operations, and one actually supports the other.

Having employees working remotely has become the norm for many businesses in Columbus and beyond. Even once the pandemic has subsided, this is a major shift in the workplace that is going to remain for most companies.

You may have noticed that ransomware has been in the news more often recently. There were high-profile attacks on Colonial Pipeline and JBS in May that resulted in higher gas and meat prices, for example.

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is one of the best ways to reduce your risk of cloud account compromise. Microsoft, which sees about 300 million fraudulent sign-in attempts per day on its cloud services, states that MFA is 99.9% effective at blocking them.

It seems that there is no end to the different areas of attack that businesses need to be prepared for. As soon as you shore up your network security against one type of attack, you find out that a new one is rising rapidly.