Optimizing cloud spend is a priority for organizations of all sizes. Without proactive management, on-demand resources can unexpectedly inflate monthly bills, leading to unnecessary expenses. In a recent webinar, Access Point’s CIO Anthony Rivera and Director of Infrastructure Services Kevin Hartwig, shared their expertise on practical ways to control and reduce cloud costs. In this article, we share some of their insights.
Domain-based threats have become one of the most persistent and underestimated risks organizations face. From lookalike domains designed to deceive, to infrastructure missteps that invite attackers, the danger is real — and growing. During a recent webinar hosted by Access Point Consulting, we explored these threats, why they matter, and what you can do to protect your brand, customers, and employees.
How fraudsters exploit technology, from fake profiles to fraudulent domains, and what organizations can do to protect their brand and people.
LinkedIn is a powerful platform for building relationships and finding opportunities — and attackers know it. Increasingly, threat actors are creating spoofed LinkedIn profiles to target job seekers and employees, using the trust we place in professional networks against us.
The healthcare sector faced a staggering 156% increase in breached records in 2023. The concern goes beyond just alarming statistics: Breaches pose a direct risk to patient safety by disrupting essential healthcare services, including eligibility verification, prescription processing, and hospital discharge procedures.
Network administrators, security analysts, and software developers have a technical approach to risk management, whereas executives and a business’ board of directors have an economic one. The board of directors wants to know the monetary impact and responsibilities surrounding threats and risk management.
Email protocols and the system that allows us to communicate with electronic messaging have been around for decades. The original system built in the 1970s wasn’t created with spoofing and phishing in mind. Weak communication protocols between sender and receiver have led to numerous critical data breaches from email-based attacks. The success of attacks stems from the way email protocols work, but businesses can protect themselves using DMARC policies set up as DNS entries.
Whether you’re a healthcare provider or a third-party contractor storing protected health information (PHI), you likely wrestle with HIPAA compliance. HIPAA is one of the more strict compliance regulations and it’s difficult to navigate...
In the business world, particularly cybersecurity, organizations often struggle to respond efficiently and effectively to incidents. The lack of standardized processes can lead to chaos, delays, and significant impacts on business operations.
It’s not uncommon for large healthcare organizations to support patients via thousands of systems––servers, network hardware, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices particular to the medical practice. Healthcare organizations are primary targets for attackers and are required to follow strict regulations to stop data breaches. HIPAA violations are costly, and unpatched hardware leaves healthcare systems vulnerable to numerous threats including malware, ransomware, security bypasses, and possible remote code execution. Patching systems with the latest update is critical to data protection and risk management, and it keeps the company compliant with HIPAA guidelines.
With a countless number of reported ransomware attacks every month, it seems like the cybersecurity industry is losing its battle with cyber-criminals...
Healthcare weathered a massive increase in data breaches during 2023, with more records disclosed than in both 2021 and 2022 combined. HIPAA Journal reported that over 11 million medical records were disclosed in 2023, with most being data breaches from supply-chain vendor vulnerabilities and ransomware.
Your company may have best-of-breed security solutions by today’s standard, but it may not necessarily be enough to stop the thousands of new and emerging threats introduced every day. To maintain a strong security posture in today’s threat landscape, you need a way to proactively detect new threats so that you can create strategies to stop them.
