What is Spamdexing? Spamdexing is a spam technique that you have likely encountered, but perhaps did not know there was a term for. Spamdexing, or SEO spam malware, refers to techniques employed by some web designers and web marketers aimed at fooling search engine indexing programs with the objective of ensuring that their website appears […]
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Web Skimming
What is Web Skimming? The term “skimming” has generally referred to the illicit financial accounting procedure of returning lower invoice totals than were actually collected, allowing criminals to “skim” money off the top of the invoice. Web skimming refers to a hacking technique that targets digital businesses by manipulating client-side web applications to steal their […]
What is Spear Phishing? Phishing and spear phishing cyberattacks are quite common. Phishing cyberattacks are undertaken by emailing very large numbers of recipients, often randomly, with the expectation that a small percentage of them will respond, enabling the cyberattacker to carry out their agenda which may be to install malware or to redirect the users […]
What is Payment Orchestration? Payment orchestration platforms (POPs), or payments orchestration layer (POL), are platforms that simplify the integration between websites and payment service providers (PSPs). POPs allow for your website to utilize just one platform to connect to multiple payment processors. By increasing the number of payment methods that you accept, you can increase […]
What is National Risk Management? The National Risk Management Center (NRMC) is the planning, analysis, and collaboration center within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), leading strategic risk reduction efforts for the nation1. Sources of strategic risk are widespread and include cyber and physical attacks, supply chain vulnerabilities, malicious exploits of emerging technology, nation-state […]
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Email Security
What is Email Security? Email security refers to the various procedures and techniques for protecting email accounts, content, and communication against loss, compromise, and unauthorized access. Cyberattackers often use email to spread malware, spam, and to conduct phishing attacks by using deceptive messages that persuade users to open attachments laden with malware, to click on […]
What are Location-Based Services? Location-based services (LBS) use real-time geolocation data from mobile devices to provide information, security, and/or entertainment. Using a mobile device, even powering it on, exposes location data.1 Mobile devices connect to cellular providers and networks, and when they do the cellular provider receives real-time location information. This information can be used […]
What are Data Centers? Data centers are physical facilities that organizations use to house their critical and proprietary assets. Data centers are designed to centralize an organization’s shared IT operations and equipment for the purposes of storing, processing, and disseminating applications and data. Data centers are essential to the continuity of daily operations, so their […]
What is Infrastructure Cybersecurity? The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) defines National Critical Functions (NCFs) as, “…functions of the government and the private sector so vital to the United States their disruption, corruption, or dysfunction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination thereof.”1 […]
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Enterprise AI
What is Enterprise AI? Artificial intelligence (AI) is the field of technology that enables machines to automatically perform tasks that would otherwise require human intelligence. AI can also encompass deep learning, which is capable of making connections and reaching meaning without relying on predefined algorithms, but instead learns from experience and uses raw data as […]