Delivers actionable advice on recognizing and preventing phishing attacks, including email phishing, spear phishing, smishing, and vishing. Covers detection techniques, employee training approaches, email security tools, and real-world phishing examples to strengthen your defenses.
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The Receptionist Who Handed Over the Keys to the Kingdom In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor called the help desk, impersonated an employee found on LinkedIn, and convinced a staff member to reset credentials. No code was written. No zero-day exploit was deployed.
In February 2024, Change Healthcare suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted pharmacy operations across the entire United States for weeks. UnitedHealth Group eventually disclosed the breach may have affected up to 100 million individuals. If you still think the word "cyber" is just a vague buzzword tossed around
Most Organizations Read CISA's Advice — Then Ignore the Hard Parts In 2023, the City of Dallas got hit with Royal ransomware. Services went down. Police dispatch systems broke. Recovery took weeks and cost millions. The attack vector? The kind of basic intrusion that CISA cybersecurity guidelines have warned
A $4.88 Million Problem That Starts With One Email In 2024, the average cost of a data breach hit $4.88 million globally, according to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report. The number one initial attack vector? Phishing. Not sophisticated zero-day exploits. Not nation-state hackers tunneling
The Receptionist Who Stopped a Six-Figure Wire Fraud In 2023, a mid-size accounting firm in Ohio nearly lost $380,000 because a senior partner clicked a link in a spoofed email from a "client." The person who caught it wasn't a security analyst or an IT
In 2024, the average cost of a data breach hit $4.88 million globally, according to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report. The root cause in most cases wasn't some exotic zero-day exploit. It was the basics — unpatched systems, reused passwords, employees clicking phishing links.
One Email Cost This Company $37 Million In 2024, Orion Engineering — a mid-size firm with 200 employees — wired $37 million to what they believed was a trusted overseas supplier. The invoice looked legitimate. The email thread was real. The bank details were the only thing that had changed. By the
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 880,000 complaints with potential losses exceeding $12.5 billion — and small businesses absorbed a disproportionate share of that damage. I've worked with companies of 15 employees that lost six figures to a single business email
A $4.88 Million Question Most People Answer Wrong In 2024, the average cost of a data breach hit $4.88 million globally, according to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report. That number isn't abstract. It's real money drained from real organizations — many
A school district in Arizona lost $3.5 million in January 2024 after a single employee followed a spoofed email's wire transfer instructions. No malware. No sophisticated zero-day exploit. Just one person who didn't recognize a social engineering attack. That's why most computer security
