Cybersecurity

According to new data from Verizon in their 2022 Data Breach Incident Report, 20% of data breaches involved an actor internal to the organization. This represents a slight rise from 18% reported [...]

Regular readers of this blog are no doubt very familiar with the increasing threat of smishing along with multi-factor authentication (MFA) prompt bombing. In both attack vectors, bad actors are [...]

In the world of cybersecurity, our conversations often center around defending against attack strategies such as phishing or monitoring attack trends such as ransomware. But in the end, [...]

Although the term “smishing” was originally coined in 2016, the “SMS + phishing” identifier remains relatively unknown to the general public. According to data from [...]

According to the Department of Health and Human Services Ransomware Trends 2021 report and our own internal data, ransomware is on the rise. And according to research firm Cyber Security [...]

In their Q1 2022 IT Priorities and Benchmarks Survey, Gartner Peer Insights revealed that 67% of IT decision-makers list talent shortages as their largest business challenge. This difficulty in [...]

If you don’t spend every day in the IT trenches as we do, keeping up with the latest security threats, technologies, and protocols can seem overwhelming. Getting up to speed on cloud [...]

VPNs or Virtual Private Networks are a critical component of any security plan. A VPN leverages encryption to create a secure tunnel between endpoints or networks within a public network. This [...]

The WatchGuard Threat Lab team is a group of analytical, science-based threat experts who want to help you truly quantify the cyber threats your business faces. By statistically measuring the [...]

Gartner Research has released the latest Cybersecurity Quarterly Benchmarks. Data were collected between February 14 – March 20, 2022, across 361 tech decision-makers in cybersecurity. As [...]