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With all the news and confusion around Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and Silvergate Bank, it’s critical to have a heightened awareness of any financial communication you may receive. Bad actors thrive in crisis and use many social engineering tactics to take advantage and profit. There will be scenarios where scammers will use email to impersonate someone in authority (your financial institution) in order to trick the recipient into disclosing… Read More

If you are a corporate officer, cybersecurity plays a critical role in protecting your company’s financial, operational, and reputational interests. Boards have a legal obligation to protect the assets of the company–which includes digital assets–so it’s essential to have a clear understanding of the cyber risks an organization faces to make informed decisions on how best to manage and mitigate those risks. Legal and regulatory requirements There are many laws… Read More

Over the past year, DataEndure’s TECH talks have covered a wide range of topics related to cybersecurity–from emerging industry trends, the economy, best practices, and more. Looking back at viewership across all our broadcasts, three features stood out distinctively from the rest–and not surprisingly, they are interrelated. With polymorphic malware responsible for many initial intrusions, it is understandable why viewers wanted more education on why their current antivirus/endpoint detection tools… Read More

For those of you who were around in the late 90s, the Managed Service Provider (MSP) concept was in its infancy. While the concept was simple–create and act as a centralized IT environment and offer it to multiple companies to leverage on a consumption basis–trusting the model, and therefore adoption, took time. Fast forward to today, and MSPs have become second nature.   MSPs are in a unique situation, able… Read More

The holidays are upon us, and while it’s prime time for shopping… it’s also prime time for cyber adversaries. The target-rich environment of email offers, social selling and digital payments provides perfect cover for bad guys. 93% of attacks continue to originate through email… even with all the tools and training available. And it only takes one click to create a ransomware situation. It’s easy to think of this as… Read More

Tech and security vendors galore hype AI… their “holy grail” message focusing on the transformational benefits of automation. Well, yes and no. In my experience at DataEndure, when Murphy’s law strikes–and it will–in the form of a data breach, ransomware, or outage… our clients aren’t reassured because they have automation in place–they are relieved because they have PEOPLE they know and trust responding with the level of urgency their situation… Read More