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There are numerous areas of business and enterprise risk that have been measured for years in a standardized fashion — these include financial risk, market risk, operational risk, legal risk, and even IT risk.

In a world where business is increasingly conducted on mobile devices, it is imperative that organizations offer mobile applications to serve their customer base. In fact, for many businesses, mobile applications are one of the primary channels used to interact with customers and to sell products and services.

Wondering how to leverage your remaining funds? As you decide how to use your end of year budget, ask yourself these questions.

As a security professional navigating the new challenges 2020 is bringing to cybersecurity, it’s critical to understand the ways your organization’s data could be exposed. Sensitive data is critical, safeguarded information. Different information can be considered sensitive depending on the industry, but in general it can be anything your organization, your employees, your customers, or your third parties would expect to be private and protected.Below, we’ve outlined five examples of sensitive data your organization likely handles—and a few key ways to protect it from evolving cyber threats.

You can’t reduce the cyber risks faced by your organization if you don’t know what you’re up against. That’s the purpose of a vulnerability probe.

The threat from malicious email represents one of the greatest risks to IT security. That threat continued unabated in 2020, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Research indicated that in 2020 the number of nefarious emails increased dramatically, reaching about 1.5 million malicious emails per day during one particularly intense three month period.

The majority of us have been through phishing training for our jobs, where the simplified best-practices for all employees are laid out. These usually include reporting to IT when you receive emails from suspicious accounts, those that contain links without a description or subject lines that don’t make sense, or content you’re not familiar with or normally asked for, among other questionable communication.

The majority of us have been through phishing training for our jobs, where the simplified best-practices for all employees are laid out. These usually include reporting to IT when you receive emails from suspicious accounts, those that contain links without a description or subject lines that don’t make sense, or content you’re not familiar with or normally asked for, among other questionable communication.

Given the recent security breaches and reported hacking attempts, it is increasingly important for companies to have a handle on their most sensitive data. Sensitive data can include employees’ personal information, customer information, trade secrets, and other types of data that would cause internal breaches to company information if obtained by a hacker. To identify your organizations’ sensitive data points, refer to our recent article highlighting 5 examples of sensitive data.

Working from home introduces significant cyber risk to any organization. However, recent events reveal that it’s not a case of “if” but “when” bad actors will exploit the rampant vulnerabilities on home networks.

Quantum computing has the ability to change the world, both for better and worse, and while it may be far off in the future, security teams need to start preparing for the new reality it will usher in.

This week, Microsoft ended support for the Windows 7 operating system. Among other implications, Microsoft will no longer issue security patches for the nine-year-old OS. Any organization relying on the OS moving forward could be susceptible to a security issue, attack or data breach unless they purchased extended support from Microsoft. 

Early in 2019, unknown threat actors attempted to hack the Australian federal Parliament’s computer network and the servers used by every politician, staffer, and security officer in Parliament House. Authorities believe there is a strong chance this could have been executed by a state-based actor.

Companies must build a “trust and verify” strategy when it comes to managing third party risk. Requesting documentation about a supplier’s security performance is good – but how can you verify it? How can you continuously review performance?

Cyber risk and regulatory compliance are two sides of the same coin in the Financial Services sector. Together, they spur Financial Services companies to take action to protect customers, their business and the global financial ecosystem from the malicious cyber attacks or the risk of critical system failures.