During the pandemic, data breaches disproportionately affected smaller companies; they were targeted at twice the rate of larger businesses. Since the pandemic, those same smaller companies have been struggling with COVID-19 fallout ranging from supply and labor shortages to bouts of inflation. All those preoccupations have left them more vulnerable to ransomware attacks. Enemy at…

Every worker in a company has a part to play in pulling together to combat potential cyberattacks. Vigilance must extend well beyond the IT department, as employees themselves constitute a first-line defense in a firmwide effort to ward off breaches. Criminals hunt for customer information, financial records, trade secrets, and intellectual property data. As companies…

In 2020, the FBI reported 1.4 million cybercrime complaints, mostly identity theft, up from 651,000 in 2019. The Federal Trade Commission received 4.8 million cybercrime complaints in 2020, up from 3.3 million in 2019. According to the Internet Crime Report, the cost to victims was $6.9 billion in 2021. The time period reported in these…