Cyber Security Challenges

As we become more digitally connected, the more vulnerable we are becoming. Anything that is connected is a target. The number of breaches in 2018 reached staggering proportions. With a multitude of new attack vectors, 2019 promises to be worse. Here are 5 threats you need to know.

Social Engineering Attacks
Cyber-criminals are increasingly using sophisticated tools – including Artificial Intelligence – to troll the web for information that corporations and employees are inadvertently posting on their social media sites. This information will likely become a new threat vector in the new year where this information is exploited in phishing and spear-phishing attacks.

Questions you should be asking are:

What is our social media threat profile?
Who is monitoring it?
What tools are available for such monitoring?
What are our social media use policies? How do we implement them?
As corporations continue to harden their own perimeters and attack surfaces, criminals are increasingly looking at the vulnerable supply chain where risks are not completely understood. Increasingly, the vendors in that supply chain will be regarded as part of the company’s own vulnerability and risk profile. Criminals will increasingly exploit the supply chain to gain access to critical information about corporations.

Questions you should be asking are:

What sensitive information am I sharing with my vendors?
How do I assess the risk of each vendor?
What tools and services can I use to effectively control the threats posed by such a risk?


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