Category: Security

Phishing-Proof Your Workforce: Strategies to Stay Secure

Let’s face it—nobody likes being tricked, especially by someone lurking behind a screen, trying to steal sensitive company data or your employees’ personal information. 

Did you know? Phishing is the most common data breach vector, according to IBM’s Cost of Data Breach Report; representing 15% of all security breaches, costing companies an average $4.88 million. 

Phishing scams are believed to have begun in the mid-1990s following a hijacking of AOL email and instant messenger accounts; by the early 2000s, they had grown to target financial systems and commerce sites. 

With so much at stake, it’s fair to say that phishing is a whole-company, keep-your-eyes-open, no-clicking-on-that-sketchy-link kind of situation. The question is, how do you keep your team from falling for the bait? 

We’ve got six strategies to get you started… 

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Welcome to the Cybercrime Buffet: Hold the Phishing & Pig Butchering Scams

We don’t like playing this game, but we feel compelled to educate our clients as much as possible. So, imagine being lured into a seemingly innocent conversation online, only to end up financially gutted like a prize pig at the county fair. Welcome to the world of pig butchering scams. Add in your classic phishing schemes, and you’ve got a cyber buffet of tricks designed to steal your hard-earned cash and personal info.

The purpose of this blog post is to help you learn to sharpen your scam-spotting senses, keep your wallet (and dignity) intact.

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Here, Phishy-Phishy: How to Identify a Phishing Email or Message

No one likes to be duped, especially when it comes to giving up high stakes personal or financial information. Unfortunately, phishing emails aren’t going anywhere and the scammers sending them out are only getting savvier. 

In 2022, a whopping 300,497 phishing victims incurred a total loss of $52,089,159 just in the United States, to say nothing of a global tally. 

That’s why our team at Resolve I.T. wants to educate our clients on how to identify a phishing email and what to do about it when you spot one. Trust us, if you haven’t already, it’s only a matter of time before you find yourself on the end of a phishing line. 

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