Go Phish: 11 Ways To Avoid The Bait

You’ve probably heard the adage “work smarter, not harder”. Here at BAI Security, we believe in both. When phishing attacks are clouding your email waters, it can feel daunting to keep your team abreast, particularly when hackers are brewing a perfect storm of social engineering and scam tactics to obtain your company’s credentials. In the… Continue reading Go Phish: 11 Ways To Avoid The Bait

Save Now, Pay Later: The True Cost of a Data Breach

What is the real cost of a data breach? To your organization, that can mean a number of things. A data breach costs you in the value of the data lost, as well as its consequences to your operations. There are also possible ransomware pay-offs, not to mention significant time and effort in incident response… Continue reading Save Now, Pay Later: The True Cost of a Data Breach

Email Scams: Big Problems, Simple Solutions

Ahh, email. It’s probably your first priority in the morning and your last look at end-of-day. You may get anywhere from tens to hundreds of emails a day: coworkers asking questions, supervisors making requests, automated messages requesting verification or login information. Everyone’s done it: skimming through your sky-high backlog, checking for actionable messages, ignoring minute… Continue reading Email Scams: Big Problems, Simple Solutions

Reduce Ransomware Risk: 6 Smart Steps

Devoted readers of our blog or any nightly newscast these days will know that ransomware attacks are a pressing concern for any industry with sensitive data, as well as supply chains and any organization reliant upon digital access for functionality… in other words, no one is immune to the threat of ransomware. Following the disastrous… Continue reading Reduce Ransomware Risk: 6 Smart Steps

Healthcare Horizons: The Future of TeleMed Security

A year ago, it was difficult to project to the end of the pandemic, much less beyond. Now, as organizations shift towards post-pandemic functionality, and administrations shuffle their priorities for the “next normal”, continued financial recovery amid an ecosystem of data protection, remote workers, and incident response is looking more complex than ever—nowhere more so… Continue reading Healthcare Horizons: The Future of TeleMed Security

The Next Normal: Strengthening Security After COVID

As the world navigates its way down what everyone hopes is the end of the long, dark COVID-19 tunnel, organizational leaders are keen to bring their employees and businesses back into the full light of day. But after a year-plus of cyber-scrambling on both operational and defensive fronts, there’s no time to waste: Now is… Continue reading The Next Normal: Strengthening Security After COVID

Red Team Reformation: Rethinking Today’s RTA

As today’s organizations cautiously unclench from the past year’s COVID-driven operations and gradually resume some semblance of normalcy, there are aspects of business that will never be the same. New perspectives, workarounds, and efficiencies developed throughout the pandemic are likely here to stay—and so are elevated and complex cyber threats. That’s where IT security ears… Continue reading Red Team Reformation: Rethinking Today’s RTA

Top Tenets of Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability management presents a broad spectrum of opportunities to improve your digital protections, but to make the most of your management strategy, you need to know your network inside and out. What assets are hackers the most likely to go after? What functionalities are most at-risk during a cyberattack? And what can you do to… Continue reading Top Tenets of Vulnerability Management

Miss To Mischief: 3 Overlooked Risk Factors

While the best security defense is predicting where cybercriminals will strike next, those same cybercriminals are doing their best to strike where you’re not looking. Add to this the constantly changing security landscape, and it’s easy to miss the dark digital corners hackers are lurking in. So how are your IT security strategies supposed to… Continue reading Miss To Mischief: 3 Overlooked Risk Factors

Cybersecurity or IT Security? Let’s Get Physical

You’ve probably seen them used interchangeably, but distinctions between cybersecurity and IT security are important to understand to ensure accurate communication with stakeholders and vendors alike. While both involve keeping your data secure, cybersecurity refers to the prevention of unauthorized electronic access to that data, while IT security refers to protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and… Continue reading Cybersecurity or IT Security? Let’s Get Physical