Data Breach Customer Relations - What you must NEVER Do

Data breaches have become an unfortunate fact of life. But just because data breaches happen every day doesn’t mean your own enterprise’s incident isn’t big news that should be handled with great care. During cyber incident response, one public relations misstep can multiply the damage significantly.

What are some bad behaviors you’re going to want to avoid? Find out HERE. 

Data Security - Five Common Mistakes

Even before the pandemic, data breaches were a common occurrence, with prominent companies suffering attacks that were regularly reported and analyzed. They have continued to surge, and data security is at the top of every organization’s mind. 

Due to the changing threat landscape as a result of a hybrid-remote working model that has created a wider attack surface, threat actors are increasingly successful in gaining access to sensitive data, and organizations are still struggling to implement adequate data security practices to avoid breach. 

Many of these organizations still tend to make critical mistakes with regards to data security that, if left unaddressed, can lead to drastic consequences for the entire business.

Check out the five common mistakes we all make HERE.

Common Mistakes When Addressing Data Security

What is a cyber attack?

From virtual bank heists to semi-open attacks from nation-states, the last couple of years has been rough on IT security. 

A cyber attack is an attack launched from one or more computers against another computer, multiple computers or networks. Cyber attacks can be broken down into two broad types: attacks where the goal is to disable the target computer or knock it offline, or attacks where the goal is to get access to the target computer's data and perhaps gain admin privileges on it.

Josh Fruhlinger posting on CSO fills us in on cyber attacks using some of the major recent cyber attacks and analyses what we can learn from them.

Read his article - What is a cyber attack? Recent examples show disturbing trends