Excerpts from September 14, 2021, FBI Briefing and Panel Discussion. Organizer: Fortress Security Risk Management FBI Representative:Bryan P. Smith: Section Chief, FBI Cyber Criminal Section Full Webinar Replay Link: https://fortresssrm.com/webinar-cybersecurity-lessons-for-business-leaders/ …
Ransomware: To Pay or Not to Pay? That Is the Question
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Managed Patching: What Is It and Do You Need It?
Let’s be honest: applying software patches to computers, mobile devices, and servers is a hassle. Patching is something you know you should do but probably don’t because it requires a …
Endpoint Detection & Response Beats Antivirus. But Is It Enough?
Cybercrime used to be a problem only for large businesses, but those days are past. Small- and medium-sized businesses are attractive targets for cybercriminals, with SMBs accounting for 28% of …
What Football Can Teach Us About Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity and football have many things in common, and football can teach us a lot about how to approach cybersecurity. Football is a very adversarial sport. One side is trying …
Cyber Resiliency is Business Resiliency
Cyber resiliency is an organization’s ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse conditions, stresses, attacks, or compromises on cybersecurity resources. This standard definition of cyber resilience was …
Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercises: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know
Cybersecurity tabletop exercises are a planning technique designed to evaluate an organization’s incident response plan. Tabletop exercises engage Incident Response Team members and help them manage their response to a …
Planning a Merger or Acquisition? Cybersecurity is Step One
True story: It’s Monday morning, and today, Company X is going to announce a large acquisition, but as employees arrive to work, they find the company’s systems are locked. Even …
Healthcare Under Cyber-Attack: Prevention is the Best Medicine
The first known fatality resulting from a cyberattack was reported in September 2020. Ransomware hit a hospital in Düsseldorf, Germany, crashed its systems and forced it to turn away emergency …
Think Like a Hacker to Catch Them (If You Can)
The movie “Catch Me If You Can” is a great lesson in thinking like the enemy to protect yourself against them. It is based on the real-life story of a …
A Guide to Phishing Attacks
Phishing is an online scam where cyber criminals send messages that appear legitimate to get the recipient to click a link and enter confidential information. Once a phishing link is …
What Will a Data Breach Cost? 12 Things to Consider
Has your company or organization ever given serious, disciplined thought about what a data breach would cost if it happened to you? Your Chief Financial Officer can probably estimate, down …