Secure UD Newsletter | August 2021
Understanding Social Engineering
98% of cyber attacks rely on social engineering, which makes it the number one method of attack. With this in mind, the best way to protect ourselves is to understand what social engineering is, how it works, and how to avoid it at work and at home.
Protect yourself by learning more about social engineering.
Ransomware is on the rise, again
Between 2019 and 2020 there was a 62% increase in ransomware attacks–and all indicators predict further increases this year.
Learn more about ransomware trends for 2021, and how to protect yourself.
Welcome back!
The new semester also brings with it new ways of working on and off campus. As some folks return to campus, others will be working from home, still others will be doing a combination of both. This can mean more devices to manage or perhaps traveling with your work devices in a way many have not done in the past.
However you are working, here are some things you should do and keep in mind.
What’s the CISO reading
In this new feature, we will be checking out what Andy Weisskopf, our Chief Information Security Officer, has checked out from the (virtual or physical) cyber security bookshelf:
The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report is a must read annual report. This year’s report analyzed 79,635 incidents, of which 29,207 met quality standards and 5,258 were confirmed data breaches, sampled from 88 countries around the world.
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth. I’m just starting this, but with the recent reporting on Pegasus, it feels all the more relevant to consider how the market in security and vulnerability is evolving and decentralizing.