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The 4 Questions You Need To Ask When Purchasing Cybersecurity Professional Services
A professional services engagement can be critical for companies looking to successfully implement cybersecurity. From solutions to vendors, new cybersecurity solutions contain a lot of complexity and variables, and many IT teams don’t have the time or capacity to handle them entirely themselves. That makes a professional services engagement a necessary investment, which means you need to ask firms the right questions to ensure everything goes smoothly and you maximize your value.
Protecting Your Intellectual Property From Cyberattacks: An Overview
Most businesses have something unique, like a product, process, innovation, code, ingredient, recipe, or idea. It’s their “special sauce” or “better mouse trap.” It sets them apart from the competition and will help them change or disrupt the world (hopefully for the good). It’s called “intellectual property,” and protecting it from bad cyber actors is critical.
How to Guard Against Ransomware on a Budget
Ransomware is malware that a bad cyber actor installs on your computer systems, encrypting essential files to hold your business hostage in exchange for money. Learn how to combat it!
Top 3 Cybersecurity Concerns For E-commerce Businesses During Online Shopping Season
The holiday season is here, which means time with friends and family, overpriced pumpkin-spiced lattes, and online shopping! If you’re an e-commerce vendor, what can put a wrinkle in your plans for online shopping domination? Two words: bad actors… or economic slowdown… or angry Swifties. But we at decodingCyber can’t help with the last two, but we can help with bad actors.
Remote Browser Isolation: Preventing Malicious Web Code from Entering Your Network
Remote browser isolation, or RBI, is a technology that uses logical or physical barriers to separate non-trusted web browsing from the corporate network.
5 Critical Cyber Risks that Can Threaten Business Profits
In today’s interconnected world, business leaders must confront the pervasive and detrimental risk of cyberattacks and data breaches. Yet the consequences of cyber incidents extend beyond compromising sensitive information — they can severely impact a company’s profitability.
5 Steps to Maximize AI in Business Projects: Avoiding Security and Regulatory Headaches
Companies across the globe have jumped on the artificial intelligence (AI) bandwagon and started developing products that incorporate AI or use AI tools to empower their current workforce.
Vulnerability Management: 5 Steps To Protect Your Business
In the most simplistic terms, vulnerability management is an element of cybersecurity that involves finding and remediating weaknesses in your computer systems to minimize ways hackers can negatively impact your business.
Incident Response Plan: How to Prepare for the Worst and Protect Your Business
Imagine learning that you’ve just experienced a cyber incident. A cyber incident might be one of your software vendors telling you they found your password on the dark web. Perhaps you log onto your computer only to see a ransomware message. Maybe you can’t log onto your computer — and no one at your company can. What should you do?
In the Crosshairs: 8 Ways to Engage Cybercriminals to Win the Cyber War
Many companies do cybersecurity wrong. They play defense with little to no thought of offense, allowing their weaknesses and vulnerabilities to be the focal point of their cyber strategy. Instead, they should build a program to engage the cybercriminal, allowing their strengths and resiliencies to guide their cyber strategy and win the cyber war.
In the Crosshairs: 4 Tips for Lessening the Likelihood of a Cyberattack
The vast majority of businesses live with the ongoing threat of a cyberattack. They possess money and data, which cybercriminals want to steal. Therefore, these businesses should do everything in their power to lessen the likelihood that an attack will be successful. But what does that look like?
In the Crosshairs: 4 Principles for Assessing the Likelihood of a Cyberattack
You’ll learn how to assess the likelihood of a cyberattack on your business. Our goal is to help you clearly and systematically consider how susceptible you are to an attack and act on that knowledge proactively and proactively.
Preparing For the Next Wave of Data Privacy Obligations
Some things just are better together. Peanut butter and jelly. Coffee and cream. Batman and Robin. Salt and pepper. Security and privacy.
10 Password Security Best Practices
Password security is one of the easiest, cheapest, and most effective ways to strengthen cybersecurity, reduce cyber risk, and decrease costs.
How the SBOM Executive Order Helps Improve Cybersecurity
In the wake of major cyberattacks, such as December 2021’s Log4Shell, Congress and federal agencies have ramped up requirements for transparency in software supply chains. Software vendors are facing new requirements, including providing a software bill of materials, or SBOM, which can help improve cybersecurity measures.
Demystifying GRC in Cybersecurity: Governance, Risk, and Compliance Explained
GRC helps you manage the Governance, Risk, and Compliance aspects of your business. By bringing visibility and control to your software, GRC has big implications for cybersecurity as well.
Advice for Leaders—Think Like Your Adversary
How do cyber bad actors, a.k.a., our adversaries, think? Easy, like the rest of us. Well, with a slightly different optic. If you're leading an organization, you are charged with staying one step ahead of your adversaries — your data, earnings, and business future depend on it.
Understanding and Mitigating Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risks
Protecting your company from cyber threats is hard enough — so why worry about anyone else? Because of supply chains. Because of Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 suppliers. Because you hire consultants and they hire subcontractors, every one of them is a potential vulnerability.
Building a Cybersecurity Team Structure: Best Practices
Every organization has a cybersecurity team. Some teams are big, some are small. Some invest a lot in protecting their companies, while others … take risks. It all depends.
5 Ways to Identify a Phishing Email
Phishing emails are all the rage with fraudsters! Why? Because they’re easy to make and deploy. And, unfortunately, they work. The real question is how you can identify phishing emails and stop them before they ruin your business.
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