Eclipse IT, Inc. Blog

Imagine one of your employees receives a phone call from someone who sounds just like you. Would they be able to distinguish this deepfake from the genuine article? If you cannot answer this question with an emphatic “yes,” you have some work to do in preparing your team for modern cybersecurity standards.

In late February, data analytics company LexisNexis Legal & Professional suffered a data breach in which the threat actor responsible used an unpatched application to access the company’s Amazon Web Services infrastructure. While LexisNexis L&P claims the data leaked was minimal, this breach still serves as an important reminder of a critical security principle:

If a company as large as LexisNexis L&P can fall victim to such a simple vulnerability, what’s to say your business won’t?

Business cybersecurity is a constant concern, and attacks are becoming more sophisticated and frequent. Understanding the most common threats is the first step in protecting your company. Here are four of the most frequent ways businesses get attacked.

Today’s cyberthreats are invisible, they’re malicious, and they can bring a business to its knees. For many small businesses, cybersecurity feels like a distant problem—a concern for the corporate giants with sprawling server farms. Unfortunately, that’s a dangerous misconception. Every business, regardless of size, is on the front line.