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Securing your network against cyber threats can be challenging – but taking care of the basics can go a long way towards keeping hackers out 🙏🏻

📍 Remote work is making easy targets for hackers
For many businesses, hybrid and remote working has become the norm in recent years and organisations have shifted towards cloud-based applications and services to enable this ☝🏻

But while this shift has been effective for productivity and improving employee happiness, hybrid working also comes with additional cybersecurity risks that organisations might not be thinking about – and that's making life easier for cyber criminals 😔

"The main concern that remains for me around remote work is inadvertent exposure and public-facing applications," says Jamie Collier, senior threat intelligence advisor at Mandiant 🙌🏻

📍 Simple cybersecurity updates are being ignored
Applying security patches as quickly as possible is often said to be one of the best things to help protect networks from cyberattacks – but new vulnerabilities regularly appear, and many information security teams aren't keeping up ❗️

📍 Business email compromise attacks cost billions
Those risks potentially include data theft, malware attacks, ransomware and even nation-state backed cyber espionage. But one of the most significant cybersecurity threats is also one of the most simple attacks that cyber criminals can carry out: phishing 🧐

Phishing is used in several ways, from stealing sensitive information like bank details and passwords from individuals to being used as the opening stage in sophisticated cyberattacks targeting whole organisations 🤨

All it takes is a convincing email lure and a well-designed fake version of a real website, or any other online service that people use a login name and password to access, and data falls right into the hands of the attackers ☝🏻

*Image: Mandiant
Exposed and misconfigured services that cyber criminals can exploit for attacks as discovered across Mandiant customers' external assets from January to March 2022

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