Cybercrime is a global crisis. By 2025, it’s projected to cost the world $10.5 trillion annually—a staggering jump from $3 trillion in 2015. To put that into perspective, if cybercrime were a country, it would have the third-largest economy in the world, right behind...
Friday afternoon. Almost closing time. It’s time to hit the happy hour train. The CEO of a fast-growing e-commerce company is heading out early—weekend plans, a much-needed break, the kids, some BBQ, and nothing but the Rolling Stones on the jukebox. Then, the phone...
Things start small and then escalate — that’s when most events occur. A butterfly flaps its wings in Tokyo; there’s a tornado in Orlando. And cyberattacks are no exception. It started with a single email. Apex Industries—a mid-sized manufacturing firm—was doing fine....
The Nightmare Scenario Hospitals Don’t Talk About — It started like any other Tuesday at a mid-sized Pennsylvania hospital. It was clean. Autumn was in the air. Patients lined up for morning check-ins, nurses prepped IV drips, and surgeons reviewed charts. Then, just...
Every 39 seconds — That’s how often a cyberattack occurs globally. By the time you finish this article, multiple attacks will have occurred — a vast majority of them hitting pay dirt. Each attempt is a threat to sensitive customer data, proprietary business systems,...
Do you know your organization’s IT capabilities inside and out? Are you aware of all its, well, quirks? We each have them. Biases, installed weakness, genetic predispositions, the offset of nature Vs. nurture. The good, the bad, and the ugly — do you know it? Can you...
In 2024 alone, cyberattacks cost businesses $8 trillion globally, with ransomware and phishing leading the charge. That’s Trillion with T. That’s $255K per second. $913 million per hour. It’s not a drop in the pond — but the equivalent of what nations make. The...
$4 million—that’s the average cost of a cyberattack on businesses in the U.S. The sort of wallop that can leave business on the mat. And if they are small, it’s a K.O. punch. For Mom and Pop, or Dick and Jayne companies, such a financial whammy is often too much —...
Choosing the right security tool can feel like navigating a minefield of jargon and marketing promises — and there are dozens out there. Too many to choose for. And each has their own “It”. For the sake of this article, we’ll focus on two: Microsoft Security...