Is your company’s email providing a tempting route for cyber criminals to attack your business? Hackers continue to target businesses with phishing attacks. Once opened, these malicious email messages can hijack an entire company’s financial information and gain access to funds and personal information. Email is a business essential, but also an easy avenue for hackers to use and abuse. How can you keep your business secure?
The human factor
Businesses of all sizes face vulnerabilities via email. When email accounts are hacked and compromised, cyber criminals can gain access to information including user names, telephone numbers, birthdates, passwords, and unencrypted security questions.
Email is a common entry point for hackers because it’s an easy way to exploit the weak link in cybersecurity policies: humans. Employees rushing through their emails can easily click on a malicious link. No wonder that a recent survey reveals some 90% of cyber attacks initiate with email.1
Today, hackers are becoming more sophisticated than ever in their approach to email hacking. They’ve expanded from “phishing”—which tricks recipients into opening malicious email or clicking on bad links—to now “spear phishing.” This new approach relies on emails that appear to be from a trusted sender, such as the company’s CEO, a vendor, or the business’s bank, in order to fool recipients. Companies affected by these attacks lost productivity, money, and intellectual property.
Email do’s and don’ts
Don’t wait for your business to be victimized before you take action. Taking a few simple steps can help shore up any email vulnerabilities your business may have. Here are the do’s and don’ts to follow.
Better safe than sorry
Set and enforce strict email usage policies, enlist the right technology to protect your network, and you’ll be able to rest assured you’ve done all you can to keep your business safe from email-based attacks.
[1] Cloudmark, Survey Reveals Spear Phishing as a Top Security Concern to Enterprises
[2] HP Sure View integrated privacy screen is an optional feature that must be configured at purchase expected to be available Q2 2017.
[3] HP WorkWise smartphone app is available as a free download on the Apple Store and Google Play.
used with permission from HP Technology at Work
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