Month: February 2025

When HIPAA was first introduced and even when it received a major overhaul in 2013, the cyber threat landscape was starkly different from what we face today. As a consequence, earlier, HIPAA focused on protecting patients’ privacy during digital transformation and cloud data backup, but it did not mainly ensure security.  In 2025, cyber threats…

Risks aren’t just unavoidable in business; they’re a regular companion. Risk is woven into the fabric of every decision and activity, whether it’s a potential data breach, a sudden shift in market dynamics, or even a lapse in regulatory compliance. The question is not whether they will happen but when—and how ready you will be…

Malware has evolved substantially since its humble beginnings as experimental pranks or minor exploits. In 2023, there were 6.06 billion documented malware attacks worldwide, a 10% rise over the previous year.  To put things in perspective; 90,000 new malware attacks happen every second and nearly 90% of all cyber threats are phishing or social engineering…

Gone are the days when companies could simply implement a firewall, add privacy policies to their websites, implement basic authentication controls, and call it a day. Today, GDPR reigns supreme, and no one, not even Meta or Google, is off its radar.  Over 247 fines have been issued in the last two years. And with…

82% incident rate. 10.3 Billion dollars in losses. 30% uptick in phishing attempts. Need we say more? Phishing is more prevalent and harmful than we think. Yet, our attempts to curb it stay limited to one-off training and tracking vanity metrics to gauge phishing resilience.  Enter the NIST Phish scale — a simple yet effective…