Midwest Cyber Security Alliance

The vulnerable state of the world during the pandemic paved way for an aggressive onslaught of attacks, with around 39 percent of businesses experiencing a cybersecurity breach in the last twelve months. It's time to strengthen your network architecture.

Like many things in life, Cybersecurity is rife with blind spots: many see what they expect to see and miss what is staring them in the face until the blindspot is pointed out. The trick to catching cybersecurity threats is to eliminate blindspots by learning to spot them.

The pandemic pushed almost all companies to work remotely in 2020, and this shift can be directly linked to an increase in cybercrime... In the end, all it takes is one wrong click by an employee to infect a network.

No business is too small to be targeted. That’s why it’s essential for SMBs to make some changes and to take their security seriously in 2021.

The new findings underscore an ongoing struggle by social media platforms to keep cybercriminals from spreading the scams and hacking into verified accounts to do so, mainly on Twitter and YouTube.

For businesses to thrive in 2021 and beyond, they must adapt their business to a new, connected reality but what many businesses don’t understand are the risks inherent in this new always on, always ready business environment of 2021.

To address the upcoming changes to old and new security requirements, the next MCSA virtual meeting will offer an update on some familiar topics including the concept of reasonable controls and acceptable risk. Learn more and RSVP here: http://bit.ly/3dmGQBI

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German security firm Avira has been acquired by Investcorp at a $180M valuation. Read more here: https://tcrn.ch/3a2rgG6

Science Applications Wins Cybersecurity Deal From Texas DIR. Read more here: https://yhoo.it/2JWx0Xu

The unforeseen consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a hyper acceleration of this new remote reality, as workers are forced to work from home as much as possible.