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Comprehensive Cybersecurity Risk Assessment for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

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In today\’s digital landscape, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face increasing cybersecurity risks that can have detrimental effects on their operations, finances, and reputation. To effectively protect their sensitive data and systems from cyber threats, SMBs must conduct comprehensive cybersecurity risk assessments.

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Living proof of scam prevention

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Chinese scammers Last week I wrote an article on how email needs to be checked on both inbound and outbound directions. To give an example I received an email from a scammer in China who uses a well known tactic of trying to lure me into registering my domains in China as \”they\” have seen

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Cybersecurity is Virtual Combat but very real

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I\’ve spent 6 years in the army, and the most important thing any soldier relies on is training. Be drilled to the core of your bones ensures that in highly stressful situations, and you do not get more stressful than in combat, you do not act impulsively or irrationally. As it is instinctively ingrained into

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Avoid endangering your customers?

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Getting emails which contain all sorts of malware, viruses and other nasty content is bad enough as it is. It significantly hinders productivity, can infect many parts of the organisation and will, in most cases, be a very costly exercise to recover from, both financially and from a reputational aspect. Now imagine that this has

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Cyber Hacks – Prevention Versus Cure

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Getting sick is a really nasty experience. Being forced to stay in bed because you cannot move an arm and a leg, your nose dripping constantly and a headache bouncing in your skull all day is the opposite of a pleasant experience. When you then take into account, you could\’ve prevented this by just taking

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Microsoft Identifies 38% Increase in BEC

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The sheer number of emails that currently travel the globe is astounding. Billions of emails are underway every single day and, I must add, the majority are simply legitimate ones. Herein lies the problem from a security perspective, psychological conditioning. Basically meaning that the brain is acting based on experience from previous engagements. Whenever you

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Australian law makes you a target

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As a privacy and security focussed person, I want to keep a minimal financial fingerprint in the digital world. I do not pay via credit or debit card directly, but always use a trusted payment gateway which have sufficient security frameworks in place. This way I can ensure that these numbers are not splurged over

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QUADSEC security solution package

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Individual solutions do not cut it in the real world. A holistic approach to cybersecurity needs to be addressed on multiple levels, and our QUADSEC security package covers a lot of this.

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Ever Expanding Defence Perimeter

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Even though companies would like to have employees return to the office after the pandemic, the norm of working-from-home or even working-from-anywhere is here to stay. This means that uncontrolled connectivity options are resulting in increasing attack-surfaces where home routers, public Wi-Fi spots, shared personal hotspots and more, are causing headaches for many businesses to

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Business Email Compromised? Or not?

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When it comes to Phishing attempts, email is the number 1 methodology to try and lure unsuspecting victims into traps that could result in various precarious scenarios with, most often, devastating consequences. It is therefore of the utmost importance to identify these attempts and prevent them from even reaching the email inbox of the recipient.

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