Cybersecurity Hygiene - Building Blocks To Protect Your Attack Surface
Security Boulevard, April 18th, 2023
Cybersecurity breaches or ransomware-induced shutdowns can crush a company. Financial loss. Reputation damage. Legal penalties.
Legal penalties. Nobody wants to be responsible for any of these, but attacks are on the rise. The average corporate data breach in the U.S. costs $9.44 million, plus regulatory penalties.
And attackers are always looking for better weapons. To rip a true story from the headlines, a UK executive was bamboozled by an AI-generated call from-he thought-his CEO. The phone voice had the precise German accent and cadence of his boss. The executive dutifully followed instructions to wire $243,000 to a 'new supplier' in Eastern Europe.