A phishing email is dangerous when it looks real. Business email compromise can be even more dangerous because sometimes the email is real. The criminal may be communicating from the actual account of your employee, vendor, executive, or business partner. That changes the problem completely. There may be no misspelled domain to spot. No suspicious-lookingContinue reading “Business Email Compromise: When the Email Is Real but the Person Behind It Isn’t”
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Why Browser-Saved Passwords Put Your Business at Risk
If your employees click “Save password” when a browser offers to remember a login, it may seem like a harmless convenience. For personal accounts, browser password storage can be useful. For a business, however, relying on browser-saved passwords as the primary credential-management system can create serious gaps in visibility, control, sharing, and employee offboarding. TheContinue reading “Why Browser-Saved Passwords Put Your Business at Risk”
The Real Cost of Weak Passwords for Small Businesses
A weak password can look like a small problem. Someone uses the same password for email and a few business applications. An employee saves a password in a browser. A former employee still knows an old login. Nothing has happened, so everyone moves on. That is exactly how password problems become business problems. The realContinue reading “The Real Cost of Weak Passwords for Small Businesses”