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Managing Insider Threat
Cyber insider threat is a significant issue. It comes in multiple flavors – accidental and malicious and can be caused by IT or by general users. While relatively rare compared to ransomware, it is more common than you might think. Learn about the problem here. Audio Video
Cyber Insurance – Hard to Get, Harder to Keep
If you have tried to get cyber risk insurance recently, you know that it is a whole new world. After years of collecting premiums, insurance companies have had to write checks. A lot of checks. They don’t like that so much. As a result, premiums have gone up, coverage has gone down, underwriting has become…
Banking Social Engineering Scams are Alive and Well
The easiest way for hackers to steal your money is to get you to help them do it. We are seeing attacks where the victim gets a text message supposedly from their bank about a potentially fraudulent transaction and asking the victim if it is legitimate. If the victim answers, the hacker goes into high…
Draft Kings Attack Recommendations
Some users of the sports betting site Draft Kings discovered that they were locked out of their betting account and, more importantly, their bank accounts were drained. Learn how this happened and what you can do to minimize this risk. Note that this is attack is not limited to Draft Kings or sports book sites….
Technical Debt
Are you managing your technical debt? Do you even understand what technical debt is? Does your management and Board (if there is one) understand that unaddressed technical debt is like a bottle of nitroglycerin just waiting to be jarred in the wrong way. And we just saw a massive example (as in their technical debt…