Happy Valentine’s Day,
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Who is your secret admirer?

Saint Valentine’s Day. A celebration of love and adoration. A day when many people around the world receive gifts and cards from loved ones, and occasionally, from a secret admirer.

But what if that person unknown to you had more sinister reasons to be watching you from afar? A hacker monitoring you, collecting intelligence into your business operations before breaching your systems and holding you to ransom. This is the reality for many businesses who fall victim to cyberattacks. Sometimes the approach is targeted and sometimes opportunistic, but almost always devastating to a business.

Here’s a reminder that threat actors operate at all times, even when love is in the air.

These simple steps will help keep your business protected:

• Cyber awareness training for all staff
• Identifying potential phishing attempts
• Up-to-date backups of core systems
• Installing endpoint protection and anti-malware across all devices
• Understanding and filtering remote worker traffic in your logs