Five Tips to Prepare Your Employees for 2024’s IRS Tax Scams

Learn how to protect your business from IRS tax scams with these proactive tips for CISOs. Discover the latest tax scam threats, statistics, and expert advice to keep your employees safe from phishing emails and IRS impersonation. Stay ahead of cybercriminals with awareness campaigns, early tax filing, IP PINs, password protection, and more. Plus, get a bonus tip to safeguard your finance and HR personnel against CEO impersonation scams.
Data privacy: 4 online retailers that are spying on your employees during work hours

Online retailers are tracking your employees’ every move, collecting a vast amount of personal information that can be used for marketing purposes or even sold to third parties. See how this impacts your company’s data privacy.
How Cognitive Bias Affects CISOs and Other Cybersecurity Professionals

Cybersecurity professionals, including CISOs, are not immune to the pitfalls of cognitive bias. This article explores how these biases can lead to mistakes, such as falling for phishing scams, and provides tips for overcoming these biases. It also discusses the solitude of a leader in cybersecurity and how pressure can influence decision-making.
5 Reasons Why Your Cyber Security Training for Employees Falls Short

Discover the reasons behind ineffective employee cyber security training and how to transform it into an engaging and impactful program.
Recession and the Role of Cybersecurity

A looming recession increases risks of attacks and scams. Why you should take the pro-active route and turn cybersecurity into an investment, not a cost.
Case study: How a Man-in-the-middle attack caused over $700 million in losses!

Criminals exploited a patched vulnerability to deploy a man-in-the-middle attack to gain access to multiple databases of one of America’s biggest credit reporting agencies and steal the personal information of 147 million citizens
Cybersecurity Awareness Month Special: Cybersecurity by the Numbers

This cybersecurity awareness month, et a clear picture of the digital landscape with 2023’s most unsettling cybersecurity statistics: frequency of attacks, costs, contention time, most dominant threats, the role of employees, and much more.
Annual Cybersecurity Training vs. Year-Round Cyber Security Awareness: Which is Better?

I have worked for not one, but three Fortune 500 companies, and the approach to cybersecurity training is typically as follows: Once the training is over, you drag yourself back to the office, and by the time you’ve sat down, it feels like half of all that information is GONE! A Snapshot of Traditional Cybersecurity […]
The Evolution of the CISO

The article discusses the changing role of the CISO, highlighting the importance of balancing business strategy and cybersecurity, and exploring future trends in the profession.
CISOs know the rules of password management, employees often do not

Employees of clients who distribute Aware Force e-news have more questions about password management more than any other cybersecurity topic.