Security Breaches Archives - Foster Institute https://fosterinstitute.com/tag/security-breaches/ Cybersecurity Experts Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:36:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://fosterinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Favicon.png Security Breaches Archives - Foster Institute https://fosterinstitute.com/tag/security-breaches/ 32 32 Don’t Get Tricked https://fosterinstitute.com/dont-get-tricked/ Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:36:13 +0000 https://fosterinstitute.com/blog//?p=2141 Those sites that say you can look to see if someone is on AshleyMadison.com, they are probably scams. Those sites that say they will update you to Windows 10, they are scams. That email from your boss that says to quietly transfer money, they are scams too. Avoid getting viruses, keep your computer from being […]

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]]> Those sites that say you can look to see if someone is on AshleyMadison.com, they are probably scams. Those sites that say they will update you to Windows 10, they are scams. That email from your boss that says to quietly transfer money, they are scams too. Avoid getting viruses, keep your computer from being taken over as a zombie, protect your identity, keep your money, and protect your assets – don’t go there.

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]]> Security Breaches are Preventable https://fosterinstitute.com/security-breaches-are-preventable/ Wed, 22 Jul 2015 16:16:45 +0000 https://fosterinstitute.com/blog//?p=2129 After security breaches, in order for the victim companies to feel better, executives are often led to believe that and they choose to announce that, “There is nothing we could have done to prevent the breach anyway”. So, in their minds, they validate that it is ok they didn’t take any preventative actions beforehand. They […]

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]]> After security breaches, in order for the victim companies to feel better, executives are often led to believe that and they choose to announce that, “There is nothing we could have done to prevent the breach anyway”. So, in their minds, they validate that it is ok they didn’t take any preventative actions beforehand.

They may feel better, but the thought that they couldn’t have prevented it is nonsense. And, the executives may have been fed that nonsense by some company wanting to CYA.

Don’t be foolish. Go with the same energy and drive that you use to run the rest of your organization. Yes, there are important steps – often very inexpensive steps – that can vastly increase your company’s resilience to attacks.

This isn’t an advertisement – it needs to be a wake-up call to all executives: More than 90% of the companies we audit have at least one major security flaw of which they were unaware.

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