CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 29, 2024

When you add multi-factor authentication (MFA) resets to the picture, that number is likely even higher. A Forrester study found that companies spend $87 per password reset (adjusted for inflation in 2024), which amounts to a whopping $795 per employee annually. But what happens when a user can’t access their authenticator app?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

And if they werent, multi-factor authentication (MFA), answers to security questions, and verbal passwords would solve the issue. Navigating IVR According to an analysis of call center deepfake attacks, a primary method favored by fraudsters is using voice deepfakes to successfully move through IVR-based authentication.

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Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Cybercriminals began to use social engineering techniques to trick people into giving up their personal information, and they developed new malware that could evade traditional security measures. This philosophy demands rigorous and continuous authentication and authorization procedures before granting access to any resources or systems.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2022

Password-based authentication is likely the most widely used method of authenticating users to online services. Password-based authentication is used because it is easy to understand and implement. They provide multifactor authentication (MFA) without the usual burden on the user. on a user’s other online accounts.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

If you are a CIO or CISO and haven’t yet read this article – Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer,’ you should and then share it with your entire company. It could save your company millions, and potentially much more. Two-factor authentication practices just won’t cut it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2024

In fact, Gartner estimates that by 2026, nearly one-third of enterprises will consider identity verification and authentication solutions unreliable due to AI-generated deepfakes. A prime example is the recent attack that injected an AI deepfake video feed to defraud a Hong Kong company for $25 million.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Regan emphasizes that training users to recognize common phishing indicators is essential as the conversation shifts into how users can counter phishing and social engineering tactics. Stronger multifactor authentication (MFA) methods and secure VPNs are critical components in defense.

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Network World

AUGUST 27, 2024

This collaboration is designed to help businesses tackle decarbonization challenges and accurately measure and report on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through comprehensive sustainability consulting and diagnostic assessment services, the companies said in a statement.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In fact, CIO has reported that it takes only a few minutes for experienced hackers to set up a social engineering attack against enterprises (and their managed service providers) that consider themselves to be secure and protected. Know that legitimate companies will never ask for passwords, personal, financial, or corporate information.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 17, 2022

Increasingly, customers want digital omnichannel experiences and companies are providing them. Knowing this, cybercriminals focus on exploiting weak authentication methods as part of their attacks. Customer loyalty has always started with a positive experience as evidenced by the old saying, “the customer is always right.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

While the group’s goals were unclear and differing – fluctuating between amusement, monetary gain, and notoriety – at various times, it again brought to the fore the persistent gaps in security at even the biggest and most informed companies. A quick Google search should settle it. It is impossible to know your adversaries.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Social engineering is how the bad guys get employees to say too much Image Credit: Alexandre Formagio. You are now a hacker that is trying to break into your company’s network because you understand the importance of information technology, want to get money from your company, or do something else that you really should not be doing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 7, 2024

Here are the key recommendations I provided: AI training implementation: Introduce AI training aligned with company policies and processes to empower employees with the necessary skills and awareness. I’ve heard of companies creating a separate set of policies for every transformative technology.

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GeekWire

MARCH 1, 2025

Nectar Social co-founders and sisters: CEO Misbah Uraizee, sitting, and CTO Farah Uraizee. The two founders have worked at multiple tech companies and simultaneously had jobs at Meta, in product management and engineering. They’re tapping those experiences for insights into social media engagement.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2023

From embedding malware or a phishing link in a document to manipulated or outright forged documents and other types of cyber fraud, the increase in document-related attacks cannot be ignored, especially if your company handles tax forms, business filings, or bank statements–the three types of most frequently manipulated documents.

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CTOvision

MAY 23, 2016

Employees are prime in giving the brand a human face and connect with the audience in a meaningful and authentic way. McKinsey and Company has defined big data as the $100 billion business. These individuals can simply be found through analyzing of data available such as, recent purchase, calls to customer service, and social media.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

Locksmith Panda seems more focused on Indonesia, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, with targeting that is more broad, extending to technology, gaming, and energy companies, as well as democracy activists.

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The Verge

JULY 12, 2021

Authenticated brand logos in Gmail, a security feature that was first announced last July , will be rolling out over the coming weeks, Google announced on Monday. Once these authenticated emails pass our other anti-abuse checks, Gmail will start displaying the logo in the existing avatar slot. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 9, 2022

In recent months, you may have noticed an uptick in two-factor and multi-factor authentication prompts, which are being used to verify consumer and business accounts. In the T-Mobile case, Lapsus$ members hacked into T-Mobile’s network in March 2022 by compromising employee accounts, either via phishing or another form of social engineering.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 31, 2022

A more recent phenomenon, the metaverse, will transform how businesses interact with customers, how work is done, what products and services companies offer, how they make and distribute them, and how they operate their organizations. The metaverse will require a digital foundation that enables trust and authenticity. Building trust.

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Vox

AUGUST 22, 2024

My Social Security number had been compromised in an alleged data breach. As many as 272 million Social Security numbers are floating around hacker forums after someone stole them from a Florida-based background check company called National Public Data , which is owned by an actor and retired sheriff’s deputy named Salvatore “Sal” Verini.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 18, 2024

Lets not forget, compliance must also evolve with human factors, such as remote work, changing company policies, and other factors. Verification and access control Effective identity management begins with a verification process to establish the authenticity of users and entities accessing critical systems and data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Identity attacks use social engineering, prompt-bombing, bribing employees for 2FA codes, and session hijacking (among many techniques) to get privileged access. Use FIDO2-Based MFA : FIDO2 (Fast Identity Online) is a strong authentication standard that provides secure and passwordless authentication.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 11, 2022

Digital transformation is changing everything about the way companies operate, and this includes the way they engage with customers. CIAM: Better for Companies, Better for Customers. The primary purpose of CIAM is to help organizations deliver a great experience to customers and to protect their user data.

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GeekWire

JUNE 27, 2023

(LinkedIn Photo) OwnTrail , a Seattle-based life-and-career social startup, is being acquired by Miami-based job search-and-apply platform Teal. The company will not take on OwnTrail’s three other full-time employees. Customers come from companies like Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, CNN, Zillow and Squarespace.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 22, 2022

Social media is allowing companies to show their creativity and personality to customers and the world like never before. Today, businesses have the ability to reach millions of people through social media—regularly and as creatively as they dare. How does AI boost social media? A staggering 4.62

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The attacks, in which criminals frequently leverage social engineering to impersonate company insiders, C-suite executives or trusted vendors to request urgent payments, can financially devastate organizations. Those who fail should undergo additional training.

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Phil Windley

AUGUST 12, 2020

Early Web companies had a problem: we needed to know things about people and there was no reliable way for them to tell us who they were. Fail to follow the company's terms of service? Our online relationships with ecommerce companies, social media providers, banks, and others are cold and impersonal, but also relatively efficient.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 25, 2024

and you’ll discover that the exploited vulnerability was a bush-league error — failing to institute multifactor authentication on exposed servers. The CIO so-what test Given Apple’s status as company with the world’s second-highest market capitalization and second-highest overall profitability it’s hard to be too critical.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 13, 2023

Research has long shown that diverse teams are more productive , more engaged, and the companies that create them are more profitable. And the murder of George Floyd — and the social unrest that followed — made it clear that taking a stand around social justice is necessary to recruitment, retention, and even the viability of your brand.

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GeekWire

APRIL 6, 2021

Now a new startup accelerator is using the platform to host a 13-company cohort for the first time. TF Labs is a Seattle-area startup studio and digital agency working with early stage companies and enterprises. The companies represent such verticals as FinTech, EdTech, Real Estate, VR/AR, Logistics, and CPG and Products.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Social engineering attacks have long been a threat to businesses worldwide, statistically comprising roughly 98% of cyberattacks worldwide. Given the much more psychologically focused and methodical ways that social engineering attacks can be conducted, it makes spotting them hard to do.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 18, 2022

Crypto.com suspended all withdrawals from the platform on Monday and is forcing users to reset two-factor authentication methods, according to tweets from the company. And while Crypto.com is claiming everyone’s money is “safe,” there were reports from users on social media that millions may have been lost to hackers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 29, 2022

Becoming a sustainable enterprise is no longer a “nice to have” priority – reducing a company’s carbon footprint and fighting climate change is now mainstream. Adopting sustainable innovation practices demands a change in the outlook and the organizational culture of the company, including the current services and practices.”

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And one of the most successful and increasingly prevalent ways of attack has come from social engineering, which is when criminals manipulate humans directly to gain access to confidential information. Social engineering is more sophisticated than ever, and its most advanced iteration is the topic of today's discussion: deepfakes.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 15, 2024

In what could be one of the largest data breaches in history, personal information of potentially billions of individuals may have been compromised in a hack of National Public Data (NPD), a Florida-based background check company. Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) wherever possible. According to a lawsuit filed in the U.S.

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Dataconomy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In an era dominated by digital communication, the role of executives in shaping a company’s online presence is more crucial than ever. Social media platforms have evolved beyond personal networking, transforming into powerful professional communication and brand-building tools. What a Social CEO is?

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