It’s no secret that email is one of the most common ways that attackers gain a foothold on an organization’s network. Targeted spear-phishing campaigns use carefully designed messages that combine a sophisticated look and feel with appealing content to trick users into clicking on malicious messages. Awareness campaigns have their place, but the practical reality…

I recently spent time speaking with IT leaders at CDW’s Protect SummIT in Philadelphia and heard a common theme: Organizations across the U.S. are incredibly concerned about the threat posed by social engineering attacks. All too often, leaders I speak with tell me that their organizations had recently fallen victim to phishing attacks that requested…

Earlier this year, the CFO of a company I work with opened an urgent email from his boss, the CEO, who we’ll call Sally. The CEO was out on the golf course and forwarded a vendor inquiry to the CFO, who we’ll call Harry. In the message, the vendor asked Sally when it would receive…

Cybersecurity attacks are more organized than ever. The threats to organizations’ applications and data require IT professionals to be more focused than ever, too. The attention that organizations are paying to security was on display in August at the CDW Managing Risk Summit in Boston. The event brought IT leaders from across the U.S. together…

In April, the Center for Internet Security announced that Emotet arrived in the U.S. This malware represents a serious threat. It has largely targeted financial organizations in Europe, but other industries also have been infected. With Emotet’s recent arrival in the U.S., IT professionals should be aware of what this malware is, how it works…

The makers of endpoint security solutions must deal with a constantly changing threat landscape and new attack types, but ransomware has evolved beyond nearly any threat we’ve seen before. It’s the next generation of malicious code, and it’s pandemic. An organization that fails to establish a plan of defense against ransomware is essentially leaving its…