Cyber Defense eMagazine March Edition for 2022
The view from the Publisher’s desk is very encouraging, based on celebrating 10 years of growth and success at Cyber Defense Magazine! When our tiny team began our journey at Cyber Defense Media Group (CDMG) together in January 2012, we were happy to help smaller, lesser-known innovators of infosec, get their message out there and Rise Above the noise. Now, after 10 years, we’re even helping multi-billion-dollar companies and governments around the globe with our offices in DC, London, FL, NY and other locations in play, as we continue to scale, thanks to you – our readers, listeners, viewers and media partners. Beyond the magazine, in response to the demands of our markets, the scope of CDMG’s activities has grown into many media endeavors. They now include Cyber Defense Awards; Cyber Defense Conferences; Cyber Defense Professionals (job postings site being revamped); Cyber Defense TV, Radio, and Webinars; and Cyber Defense Ventures (partnering with investors). Please check them out and see how much more CDMG has to offer! Very respectfully and with much appreciation, Gary Miliefsky, Publisher
The view from the Publisher’s desk is very encouraging, based on celebrating 10 years of growth and success at Cyber Defense Magazine! When our tiny team began our journey at Cyber Defense Media Group (CDMG) together in January 2012, we were happy to help smaller, lesser-known innovators of infosec, get their message out there and Rise Above the noise. Now, after 10 years, we’re even helping multi-billion-dollar companies and governments around the globe with our offices in DC, London, FL, NY and other locations in play, as we continue to scale, thanks to you – our readers, listeners, viewers and media partners. Beyond the magazine, in response to the demands of our markets, the scope of CDMG’s activities has grown into many media endeavors. They now include Cyber Defense Awards; Cyber Defense Conferences; Cyber Defense Professionals (job postings site being revamped); Cyber Defense TV, Radio, and Webinars; and Cyber Defense Ventures (partnering with investors).
Please check them out and see how much more CDMG has to offer!
Very respectfully and with much appreciation,
Gary Miliefsky, Publisher
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Biggest <strong>Cyber</strong> Trend in <strong>2022</strong><br />
You Can’t Fix Stupid<br />
By Guy Rosefelt, CPO, Sang<strong>for</strong> Technologies<br />
Stop me if you have heard this one: a customer is working late at night, been a long day, and very tired.<br />
Customer needs to clear a few remaining emails including one from the CEO. Without thinking about it,<br />
customer opens the email from the CEO, barely skims it and opens the attached Word document. Just<br />
as the Word doc opens, customer realizes the email looks a bit odd and then it hits, it is a phishing email.<br />
Laptop infected.<br />
Sound familiar? That just happened to my customer yesterday. And he knows better but was tired and<br />
on autopilot. We spent an hour online trying to figure out how bad the infection was and if he should wipe<br />
out his system and reimage since he had just done a full backup the week be<strong>for</strong>e. We decided to err on<br />
the side of caution and wipe and restore.<br />
The moral of the story is anti-phishing will never be 100% successful. The best security products are only<br />
ninety-nine point something successful, but even at that rate with the number of emails received in an<br />
organization daily, a few are going to get through. And someone will click on one. My customer is normally<br />
very diligent, but he slipped. Worse, there are a few employees in every company that do not really check<br />
to see if emails are suspicious and will open them anyway.<br />
<strong>Cyber</strong> <strong>Defense</strong> <strong>eMagazine</strong> – <strong>March</strong> <strong>2022</strong> <strong>Edition</strong> 84<br />
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