Cybersecurity Best Practices

Cybersecurity resources, best practices, and tips to help our clients protect their firms from increasing and evolving cyber threats, including ransomware attacks.

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Updated: Firms Encouraged to Remain Vigilant Due to Heightened Cybersecurity Concerns Over the Current Situation in Ukraine

In light of recent geopolitical issues with Russia and Ukraine, both the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre and the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have released guidance on action steps firms can take to bolster and protect their cyber programs.

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Regulatory Horizon 2022

Four Reasons to Attend Regulatory Horizon 2022 | Prepare for the Challenges of Tomorrow

On 8-10 March, we bring together a wealth of financial services industry experts at our virtual conference. Over 3 days and 10 sessions, they’ll examine a wide variety of governance risk and compliance hot topics and challenges. Learn more about why you should add this event to your calendar.

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Whaling Attacks: How to Respond When a C-Suite Executive is a Victim

Whaling will soon become one of the most prominent forms of cyberattacks, especially with firms that operate in remote and hybrid work environments. In this article, we describe: whaling attacks, their impact, how to prepare C-Suite executives to not fall victim to whaling attacks, and what to do if an executive is a victim.

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Cyber Insurance: Top Five Trends for 2022

The first blog post in a multi-part series on cybersecurity insurance produced by ACA Aponix’s Thought Leadership Team. The objective of this series is to provide clients with the highest quality insights and expertise on the changing and evolving cyber insurance marketplace.

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When Push Comes to Breach: Hackers Use Push Notifications to Bypass MFA

Multi-factor Authentication, while effective and widely accessible method of security, can be used in a cybercriminals’ ever-growing hacking portfolio. Hackers can now include the misappropriation of push notifications to bypass MFA—without needing access to a victim’s device.

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ACA and NSCP 2021 Cybersecurity Program Survey: Top 20 Findings

This report aims to highlight the top findings from the 2021 survey while also comparing results from years prior.

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