Be the hunter, not the prey.

There is very often a fallacy in the world of Cybersecurity that simply implementing various types and kinds of Security Technologies towards the lines of defenses of a business or a corporation will mean greater levels of protection.

While in theory this may be true, but reality often dictates the opposite of this.  For example, by simply deploying various Security tools, you are actually increasing the attack surface for the Cyber attacker.

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A new Ponemon report on SMB cyber security reveals the top challenges and threats facing global small and medium-sized businesses

If you think your company is too small to be hacked, think again. According to a new report on SMB cyber security by the Ponemon Institute and Keeper Security, 66% of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) around the world experienced a cyberattack in the past year. In the U.S., the situation is particularly dire, with 76% of SMBs having been attacked in the last 12 months – up from only 55% in 2016.

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Dark data doesn’t just cost organizations money; it also damages their cybersecurity and compliance postures

Server rooms filled with digital files may look neater than the paper file rooms of old, but they’re not necessarily more organized, and “dark data” lurks around every corner. Sixty percent of respondents to a survey by big data software vendor Splunk admitted that more than half of their organizations’ data is dark, and one-third put that figure at over 75%. (Not surprisingly, the majority also said that the phrase “data-driven” amounted to little more than lip service within their enterprises.)

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