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What is Tailgating? Definition, Examples & Prevention

IT Governance

For example, phishing is a type of social engineering, with the attacker appearing to be a legitimate person or organisation who is emailing the target. Tailgating attack examples In the most basic form of tailgating, the fraudster simply waits by a door until someone with legitimate access opens it, then follows them into the building.

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What is Vishing? Definition, Examples and Prevention

IT Governance

Examples of vishing HR scam In this scam, an organisation’s HR manager receives a phone call from someone claiming to be from the bank. You can reduce the chances that an employee will hand over confidential information or inadvertently infect your systems with IT Governance’s interactive training course.

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What is Smishing? Definition, Examples and Prevention

IT Governance

You can help educate your employees and bolster your organisation’s defences with our Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme. This 45-minute course was developed by experts and uses real-life examples that bring to life the threat of phishing and the techniques that cyber criminals use. Get started The post What is Smishing?

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What is Information Capture? Definition, Purpose, and Value

AIIM

AIIM's training offers this definition for Capture: Capture is the process of getting records (or documents) that you have created into some sort of information management system, and recording their existence in the system. The first step on this journey is to get all of your information into the information ecosystem.

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What is email spoofing? Definition and prevention tactics

IT Governance

An example of a spoofed email. Below is an example of what someone might see when they receive a spoofed email: There is nothing here that reveals the true nature of this message. In this example, the sender might register the email domain ‘conpamy.com’ – transposing the ‘n’ and the ‘m’. Get started.

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Security Training: Moving on from Nick Burns Through Better Communication

eSecurity Planet

A recent experience highlighted that security awareness training and most alerts to users about unsafe practices may be making the error of being too general. Security awareness training should incorporate tailored alerts and customized training or education to help users become more aware. My takeaways from the experience?

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GDPR: How the definition of personal data has changed

IT Governance

With the Regulation expanding the definition of personal data, many organisations were uncertain as to what the new definition includes. The GDPR’s definition of personal data is also much broader than under the DPA 1998. The scope of personal data. What constitutes personal data?