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.
According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, cyber criminals unleash 4,000 ransomware attacks daily. Many of these threats target healthcare organizations where they have few staff to mitigate, contain, eradicate and investigate attacks. Ransomware is the most common method by which these devastating cyber attacks are carried out, leaving healthcare organizations with few options, often leading to negative impacts on productivity and revenue.
If you have ever shopped for cybersecurity insurance, you know that insurance costs depend on a number of factors including the size of your business, number of employees, your industry, and the type of data stored. Another perhaps more significant factor is your current cybersecurity posture, an increasingly objective measure of your susceptibility to malware, phishing, social engineering, or service interruption.
In October 2022, Medibank administrators became aware of suspicious activity on the corporate network environment. Investigations took place, and the initial investigation found that the suspicious traffic was from an external threat including ransomware.
Recently, it seems like hospitals and healthcare providers suffer from a data breach every month, many of them due to third-party vendor vulnerabilities. The healthcare industry suffered from another data breach on March 14 when a third-party vendor responsible for managed care administration announced that a hacker stole more than 4.2 million patient records, the biggest breach of 2023 at that time.
A recent US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) survey showed that eight out of ten organizations reported at least one person within their business fell victim to a phishing attack. CISA performed its own penetration test on organizations willing to be tested, and the results confirmed that most businesses are vulnerable to cyber-criminals using social engineering and phishing methods.
Ever since the SolarWinds hack in 2020, more businesses are aware of the risks third parties bring into their own enterprise environment.
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Most healthcare providers know that phishing, ransomware, social engineering, and malware are risks to patient data, but what they don’t know is that a majority of these threats begin with third-party vendor vulnerabilities.
Passwords are your first and most basic form of threat defense. They might not be the only way to protect data but are one important factor in layered cybersecurity. Passwords are also a primary target for an attacker...
The negative impact on patients after a data breach is more than identity theft and fraud. A recent report released by Cynerio...
