[Jacob Mannon]

One of the most common vulnerabilities faced by companies today are that of phishing attempts. Phishing is when an attacker sends what appears to be a credible email in the attempt to gain personal information about you or your company. Vishing is similar but is through phone calls instead of email. My company has a warning that pops up for every email that doesn’t come from within the organization to give you a heads up so that we pay attention to whatever email we are reading. If the email does seem like it is a phishing email, we can mark it as phishing and the I.T. department takes it from there. Another big issue is that of hackers. Hackers are individuals with cyber security skills that will break into a company’s systems to attempt some type of damage to the organization. We can try to mitigate this with firewalls, proxy servers, and proper authentication for access to company computers. Even then, it is not always full proof.

-Jacob Mannon.