If your organisation has decided to migrate to Microsoft Office 365 while you’ll likely benefit from its cloud collaboration capabilities, you might want to ask more about what Office 365 means for security, compliance and e-discovery. It sounds hard to turn down the promise of advanced threat protection, data protection and an online archive designed ...
Malicious emails exploit people, not code. Dramatic shifts in the threat landscape that started in 2015 continued throughout 2016 and into 2017. While exploit kits continue to drop as a percentage of malicious URL messages, over 90% of these links now lead to other sites, such as credential phishing pages. At the same time, ransomware ...
The headline story of 2016 threat landscape was the explosive growth of ransomware and the massive email campaigns that delivered it to organisations of all sizes around the world. These attacks added up to billions of dollars in direct financial losses. Cyber criminals relied less on automated attacks and exploits, shifting instead to social engineering. ...
Even in the age of electronic communication, companies and authorities are subject to extensive legal requirements for archiving, which are generally derived from commercial and tax law, but also from many special regulations. As a result, a variety of data, e-mails and electronic documents must be archived in order to meet the legal requirements. Archiving ...
Ransomware attackers collected more than $209 million from victims during the first three months of 2016 alone, with the volume of attacks 10 times higher than all of 2015. In addition to the ransom itself, these attacks can exact a heavy cost: business disruption, remediation costs, and a diminished brand. Ransomware is an old threat ...
Falling for an impostor’s email is easier than you might think. Imagine this scenario: You work for a large company that has been involved in acquisitions. Your job is to pay the bills. One morning, you get an email from your CEO who’s travelling. He wants you to do a wire transfer so that he ...
As clearly evidenced by the daily headlines about security breaches, traditional defense tools are failing to protect enterprises from advanced targeted attacks. A deeper understanding of these attacks and how cybercriminals approach them is key to ensuring your organization is protected. Understanding the Cyber Kill Chain model and how attackers use the cycle of compromise, ...
As data grows and organizations become more vast, the risk of sensitive data being breached increases at an alarming pace. With data breaches making the headlines more than ever, organizations are forced to consider the safety of their data, the policies they have in place to protect it, and the strategies and tools at their ...
Proofpoint security researchers have published an analysis that exposes the inner workings of a cybercrime operation targeting online banking credentials for banks in the United States and Europe. This Proofpoint research report provides a detailed and rarely seen inside view of the infrastructure, tools and techniques that enabled this cybercrime group to infect over 500,000 ...
The Human Factor report documents the results of a wide-ranging study that provides new insight into the ways attackers exploit end-users’ psychology to circumvent IT security. The report reveals that staff clicks on malicious links twice as much as executives. More than 1 in 15 people click at least a month after it first appears ...