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Phishing and Ransomware

Understanding Spear Phishing: How to Stay Safe

Spear phishing is a type of cyber attack where an attacker sends emails or messages to specific individuals or organisations to steal sensitive information or gain unauthorised access to computer systems. Unlike regular phishing attacks that are generic and widespread, spear phishing targets a specific group of people, making it more sophisticated and harder to […]

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Preventing Data Breaches: Strategies for Mitigating Insider Threats

Insider threats are insidious and notoriously difficult to detect and prevent. One of the reasons for this is that you are dealing with colleagues, not “hackers in hoodies.” But insider threats are not always malicious; accidental insiders are as much a threat to data security as malicious employees out to cause harm. Risk advisors, Kroll, […]

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Best Practices for Delivering Effective Security Awareness Training For Your Finance Team

It is crucial to provide Security Awareness Training for your finance team to help them understand the risks associated with financial data and transactions and prevent potential security breaches. In December 2021, a hacker pretending to be the CEO of a French metallurgy company made a phone call to the company accountant and managed to trick the […]

Governance, Risk, Compliance GRC

7 GDPR Data Protection Principles: Best Practices for Compliance

The 7 GDPR principles provide a framework to ensure data privacy is respected, upheld, and meets GDPR requirements. General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, entered the business lexicon with a roar back in 2016. Since then, the GDPR has disrupted how businesses worldwide deal with consumer privacy. Understanding how to comply with GDPR has often […]

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How to Establish a Strong Cyber Security Culture in Your Organisation

In today’s world, data protection regulations, such as GDPR and DPA2018, play a crucial role in ensuring that data privacy and security are maintained. However, with the ever-changing nature of these regulations, compliance alone is not enough to protect your organisation from cyber threats. Building a strong cyber security culture can help your organisation tackle […]

Phishing and Ransomware

How to Avoid Social Engineering Attacks

Cyber Security Hub’s Mid-Year Market Report 2022 found that 75% of respondents cited social engineering and phishing as the top threat to their organisation. These results come in the wake of warnings from researchers such as Check Point Research about how AI-enabled technologies, such as ChatGPT, can be used to create convincing phishing emails. Social […]

Phishing and Ransomware

5 Common Phishing Emails

Phishing, in all its forms, from malicious emails to SMShing (text phishing) to social post phishing to Vishing (phone call phishing), is now part of the daily life of an organisation. However, phishing emails are by far the most common form of phishing. What Are Phishing Emails? Phishing emails are fraudulent messages sent by cybercriminals […]

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Using a Password Generator to Create Strong Passwords

Using a password generator to create a secure password is part of a broad approach to securing access to corporate apps, devices, and data. The password is synonymous with internet use, so much so that according to NordPass researchers, the average number of passwords each of us has to remember is 70-80. Even when biometrics […]

Cyber Security eLearning

Why Accessibility is Crucial in Security Awareness Training

For effective Security Awareness Training, accessibility must be considered, and courses designed to be inclusive and accessible. Accessibility is about making something available to everyone. To enforce this, technology firms are often mandated to build solutions that can meet the needs of all users, including those with disabilities. For example, the UK Government mandates that […]

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7 Step Guide to Crafting an Annual Cyber Security Awareness Program

It’s up to organisations to ensure their information security networks are secure from malicious actors. One of the best ways to defend against a data breach is by implementing a comprehensive security awareness program that educates users on key cyber threats. One of the most significant challenges in getting your workforce to take cyber security […]

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Can Good Cyber Security Training Cure a Bad Cyber Security Culture?

Cyber attacks are so common that they regularly make the national news. There are many reasons why scams and cybercrime have taken off. Still, the manipulation and social engineering of our employees and the software they use is a typical starting point for these attacks. Organisations worldwide work on building a culture of security to […]

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5 Reasons Security Awareness Training is Not Getting Results

With the UK coming top in the cybercrime density charts, at 4,783 victims per million people, companies need to ensure they are doing everything possible to protect the organisation. One of the most powerful ways to prove that Security Awareness Training works is when the program results show positive progress. If your Security Awareness Training results […]

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5 Ways to Improve Security Awareness Training in 2023

In 2022, the business world continued to deal with onslaughts of ransomware, scams, and data breaches. However, it wasn’t just high-profile enterprises that were attacked; healthcare, education, government, and small businesses were all victims of cyber attacks. In a 2022 report, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) showed a 25% increase (to 4.5 million) in fraud offences […]

Cyber Security eLearning

Battling eLearning Fatigue with Your Employees

As the workplace continues to become more reliant on to technology to function, employees are feeling the effects of the ongoing online training that is needed. With various departments and roles requiring users to complete education updates, employees are suffering from eLearning fatigue. While online training programs have many benefits, they can also lead to […]

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The 12 Scams of Christmas

Christmas time is a time of giving, but as far as cybercriminals are concerned, it is also the perfect time to take, take, take. Here are the MetaCompliance top 12 scams of Christmas with some advice on giving the scammers some “bah humbug!” Online Shopping Fraud Christmas shopping has moved online as Covid normalised online […]

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