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Despite the best technology defenses (next-gen firewalls and antivirus, advanced threat protection, mail washing,\u00a0 web filtering, regular patching) infections and security events can still occur due to what is often the biggest risk \u2013 your staff.<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Whilst attacks that use \u201csocial engineering\u201d have been around for a long time, they are now common-place and every business will be targeted.<\/p>\n Attacks such as “Spear phishing” uses spoofed emails purporting to be from the CEO to convince a finance person to transfer money to an unintended recipient. They often know a lot about your company (e.g. who your key staff are, and if they are out of the country) and can be very convincing.<\/strong> As they are plain text, they cannot be blocked by technology.<\/strong><\/p>\n Another common attack involves harvesting information and then sending very realistic invoices<\/strong> to your customers with a different bank account number.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Regularly training of staff on good security practices, and updating them on the latest security threats, can help mitigate the danger of security risks<\/strong> impacting your business. We have done this training for other clients<\/strong> via short presentations, e-Learning tools or via internal marketing campaigns using posters and email newsletters.<\/p>\n The other big thing that was a \u201cnice to have\u201d and is now a \u201cmust have\u201d is two factor authentication for cloud services.<\/strong> This means that staff need to authenticate using a username and password, and then also approve the login using a mobile device. This is the best way to prevent hackers<\/strong> around the world from gaining access to your staff\u2019s accounts.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/black-and-white-chain-iron-86733-scaled.jpg” title_text=”black-and-white-chain-iron-86733″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”32px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”4_4″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well meaning mistakes that could cost you Despite the best technology defenses (next-gen firewalls and antivirus, advanced threat protection, mail washing,\u00a0 web filtering, regular patching) infections and security events can still occur due to what is often the biggest risk \u2013 your staff.Social Engineering Protection Whilst attacks that use \u201csocial engineering\u201d have been around for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-firms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Social Engineering Protection<\/h2>\n
It is no longer realistic to say \u201cit won\u2019t happen to me\u201d.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Mitigating Risks<\/h2>\n
That’s why supporting your staff is at the centre of a Kinetics KARE Foundation IT Support plan<\/a>.<\/h2>\n