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Current Newsletters

  • May 2023 Newsletter

    May 2023 Gatekeepers: The guardians of data

  • April 2023 Newsletter

    April 2023 Internet of Hackable Things

  • March 2023 Newsletter

    March 2023 Security Awareness and Culture

  • February 2023 Newsletter

    February 2023 Understanding the insider threat

November 2019 Newsletter Malware, Phishing, and Other Lurking Threats

November 2019

November 2019 Newsletter

Security threats come from everywhere. Detecting those threats before they cause damage is paramount to an organization’s success.  Even though some threat detections require technical skills, the ultimate threat detection is you--the human firewall. This month’s newsletter addresses the who, what, and why of enterprise threat detection and highlights two major threats: BEC and ransomware

  1. ____________________ monitors internal processes, registry settings, file activity, and network activity. (Endpoint detection and response or EDR)
  2. When an attacker impersonates a supplier, they are carrying out what type of BEC? (Invoice scams)
  3. Fraudsters who use ransomware are looking for which of the following? (c)
    1. An organization’s financial information
    2. Personal information on CEOs
    3. Large amounts of money
    4. Employees’ email accounts
  4. If you receive an email from your boss requesting a money transfer, what should you do? (d)
    1. Fulfill the request immediately
    2. Reply to the email to confirm
    3. Vocally confirm the request
    4. Report the email
  5. Malware without _______________ is very rare. (human interaction)

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