The Datamax Thinking Blog

The good news? You don’t need to overhaul your entire IT system to stay safe. A few clear, consistent practices from this social engineering toolkit can make a massive difference.

What if the greatest threat to your business isn’t a technical flaw—but a human one?

Today’s cybercriminals don’t always need to break through firewalls or decode passwords to gain sensitive information. Instead, they manipulate the one element no security system can fully control... your people.

Multifactor authentication simply applies another "layer" to prove that you are who you say you are.

• Must use a mix of letters, numbers, and characters,
• Change your password every 30 days,
• Use a minimum of eight characters,
• then 12 characters,
• enforce a higher password history to prevent reuse
• etc., etc.

This is not a sophisticated scam. However, it is an effective and profitable one and it happens to an increasing number of companies across America each year around tax time.

Tax season is here. Are you safe? That seems like an odd question to ask; nevertheless, with the increasing sophistication of cybercriminals it must be considered and answered.