Cyberattacks have been Japan’s primary international concern since 2016, prompting more outcry among Japanese leaders and the public than other serious issues impacting the country, such as climate change. In response, the country has taken numerous proactive measures that have been incredibly successful in gaining the upper hand against cyber threats. A 2019 report by…
When it comes to internet security, we have been constantly warned in our professional and personal online activity: “Don’t trust anything!” When you think about it, we’ve become suspicious of: The integrity of websites and downloading from them. Receiving emails from addresses unknown to us. Email addresses we do know and checking properties. Clicking icons…
Over the 2020 holiday season, shoppers ditched the storefronts and took their business to online retailers — a trend that is likely to continue throughout this year. Amazon, one of the leading e-commerce organizations, is expected to achieve 51% of all U.S. e-commerce sales in 2021 — a 16% increase since 2016. Further, the number…
If you have ever worked in an office, then you know that paper is a major part of the daily routine. Be it invoices, orders, letters, or any other form of paperwork, businesses can’t do without receiving and sending pieces of paper… Or can they? Over the last decade especially, organizations of all kinds have…
In order to conduct business operations efficiently and effectively, organizations need to be able to transfer files to relevant parties. That includes transferring files internally between departments, such as Human Resources sending tax forms completed by a new hire to Finance, or sending and receiving files from external sources and third-parties. Many organizations rely on…
The email channel is one of the most essential components of effective corporate communication. Email is vital to keeping business flowing amongst colleagues, clients, vendors, and others. In fact, the total number of business and consumer emails sent and received per day exceeded 293 billion in 2019. This is forecasted to grow to more than…
Segmented off from the rest of the operating system, the sandbox is the place to poke, prod, and generally test suspicious incoming files in a relatively safe environment before allowing them to enter the rest of the system. Sandboxes provide one the most rudimentary forms of defense against file-borne malware. Like the security screening at…
Content Disarm and Reconstruction, Content Disarm and Reconstruct, and CDR are all terms used for a technology that can eliminate all file-borne threats. In this article, we provide an overview of what CDR is, how it’s used, the history and evolution of the technology, its pros and cons, and how a new technology—Positive Selection technology—takes…
To cybercriminals, credit card information is nice to have, and identity theft is a profitable industry – but the big money is in industrial espionage. Hackers are able to use their tricks to inveigle victims into granting them access to their computers, usually through spear-phishing campaigns aided by social engineering. And when hackers invade a…