Articles on building and sustaining a cybersecurity culture where secure behavior becomes second nature across every level of an organization. Topics include leadership engagement, employee mindset shifts, and integrating security values into daily operations.
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A $4.24 Million Wake-Up Call IBM's 2021 Cost of a Data Breach Report found the average breach now costs $4.24 million — the highest in the report's 17-year history. But here's the number that keeps me up at night: 85% of breaches involved
In December 2020, FireEye disclosed one of the most sophisticated supply chain attacks in history — the SolarWinds breach. Threat actors compromised a trusted software update, slipping past automated defenses at over 18,000 organizations including multiple U.S. government agencies. But here's the detail that gets buried: investigators
The Breach That Started With a Single Slack Message In September 2022, a threat actor sent a series of social engineering messages to an Uber employee, eventually convincing them to approve a multi-factor authentication push notification. That single lapse gave the attacker access to internal systems, Slack channels, and admin
A Fortune 500 Company Got Breached by a Phone Call In September 2023, a threat actor called MGM Resorts' IT help desk, impersonated an employee found on LinkedIn, and convinced a technician to reset credentials. The result? Over $100 million in losses, days of operational chaos, and a stock
In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor social-engineered their way past the help desk with a single phone call. One conversation. No malware payload, no zero-day exploit, no sophisticated code. Just a human being who wasn't prepared for the moment. That'
The Breach That Started With a Single Slack Message In September 2022, a threat actor sent a social engineering message to an Uber employee, pretending to be IT support. The employee handed over credentials. Within hours, the attacker had access to internal systems, the company's HackerOne vulnerability reports,
The Breach That Started With a Single Slack Message In September 2022, a threat actor sent a push notification to an Uber contractor's phone — over and over, for more than an hour. The contractor eventually approved the multi-factor authentication request just to make it stop. That single moment
