Phishing Attacks - Do's and Don'ts to Protect Your Company
Our friends over a Rebyc Security recently wrote a post on phishing "Do's and Don'ts".
Roger A. Grimes recently wrote an article for CSO Online discussing the fact that organizations need to focus on the attacks they are likely to face rather than the attacks that are in the news. This is what we call "taking a risk-based approach" and we couldn't agree more. And for financial institutions, we wrote about this a while ago.
Roger talks more on technical threats and says every organization should focus on the following:
- Socially engineered malware
- Password phishing attacks
- Unpatched software
- Social media attacks
- Advanced persistent threats
Roger goes into detail on each one including countermeasures that you can employ to help prevent each of these.
Click below to read the full article at the author's website:
http://www.csoonline.com/article/2616316/data-protection/security-the-5-cyber-attacks-you-re-most-likely-to-face.html
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