Top Cybersecurity Risks On our social media, we counted down to the end of the year with a list of the twelve most common cybersecurity risks. It’s critically important for you and your staff to have an awareness of these potential pitfalls. Up to 95% of successful cybersecurity breaches are due to human error. Here’s Continue Reading
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Business Email Compromise: Don’t Fall Victim
This month, as ever, we are thankful for our clients and our stellar staff, who support them so effectively. Not every business is so fortunate as to have these resources at their disposal. We are pleased to be able to offer both cautionary tales and examples of what can be done to protect your business. Continue Reading
Maine Cyber Attacks, Not Just Halloween Horrors.
We’ve shared a lot of tech horror stories from around the globe these last few months. In honor of Halloween and Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we thought we’d make it even scarier, by sharing very serious attacks by cyber ghouls here at home, in the State of Maine. State Agency Data Breach Hackers exploited a vulnerability Continue Reading
Protecting Your Network with a Team-based Response
We recently shared a series of blog posts on protecting your network from phishing attacks specific to Impersonation Protection. We’d now like to spotlight incidents experienced by BTS clients, actions taken, and what precautions could help avoid such risks in the future. We share the first such case below: The Scenario BTS had just onboarded Continue Reading
Impersonation Protection: Municipal Cyber Attack
We wrap up our three-part series sharing real-world examples of impersonation fraud with a look at a municipal cyber attack. Below is an example of such an attack, along with explanations of the methods of attack and appropriate responses. Impersonation Protection is a cybersecurity solution designed to protect organizations from email-based impersonation attacks. These attacks Continue Reading
Impersonation Protection: Credit Union Cyber Attack
We continue our three-part series sharing real-world examples of impersonation fraud, along with explanations of the methods of attack and appropriate responses. Impersonation Protection is a cybersecurity solution designed to protect organizations from email-based impersonation attacks. These attacks typically involve cybercriminals pretending to be trusted individuals or entities using social-engineering tactics to deceive recipients into Continue Reading
Impersonation Protection: CEO Fraud
Impersonation Protection is a cybersecurity solution designed to protect organizations from email-based impersonation attacks. These attacks typically involve cybercriminals pretending to be trusted individuals or entities using social-engineering tactics to deceive recipients into taking harmful actions, such as revealing sensitive information, transferring funds, or clicking on malicious links. A robust cybersecurity plan uses AI-Based Comprehensive Continue Reading
Security Awareness. Are You Leaving the Door Open for Cyber Criminals?
We can think of your business network as a house containing many valuables. The keys to your kingdom, really. It is prudent to have excellent locks, a camera system, an alarm system and other theft deterrents. But if you open the door for a criminal, there’s not much all those systems can do for you. Continue Reading
Beyond the Firewall: Managed Risk, Detection and Response
There’s a misconception that a comprehensive firewall protocol is the one barrier you need to protect your business network. While it is true that this tool is critical to effective network security, there are many avenues through which malware and bad actors can access and corrupt your network. It’s important to be sure you are Continue Reading