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How Phishing Emails Can Cost You $40,000

An infographic detailing how to prevent ransomware

To me, math is what makes the world work. If you think about it, just about everything involves math, especially when it comes to business. When I was going through my MBA program, I really underestimated the amount of math and calculations that you needed to perform for essentially e …

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Social Engineering - What You Need to Know

Black and red cartoon bugs attack code

For those of us in the Information Security world, we hear terms thrown around all the time that are often interchanged, confused, and sometimes misused. One of those terms is Social Engineering. On the surface, this is a confusing term that doesn't appear to have anything to do with …

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Social Engineering - Mitigating Your Risk

Social Engineering - Mitigating Your Risk

As we look into 2016 and what trends are going to take place this year in the world of Information Security, there is one thing that we can predict with significant confidence: Employees will remain the biggest threat to your Information Security Program and ultimately the safety of t …

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IT Security in 2016: What Comes Next?

A keyhole within a line of code

The last several years in IT Security have been full of surprises as well as the fulfillment of predictions that have been made. If you recall back to 2014, the famed credit card breaches that took place were predicted by most and ultimately held true to form. We had a rash of major b …

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