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Cybersecurity Awareness Month was established to provide resources to organizations and their employees to help them stay safer and more secure online. It is an opportunity to focus on four key behaviors: creating strong passwords and using a password manager, enabling multi-factor authentication, updating software, and recognizing and reporting scams . Each of these key behaviors are necessary to help keep organizations, their clients, and their employees secure. Safeguarding Digital Assets by Identifying, Avoiding, and Reporting Phishing Attempts Cyber criminals deploy scams to try to convince people to give their passwords, information, or money. Malicious emails are one of the primary methods for these cyber scams, and remain one of the top risks facing organizations, especially as advances in artificial intelligence give cyber criminals the ability to craft highly sophisticated and hard-to-identify phishing emails. No email filter can detect and catch all malicious emails, so some...

"It's the boogeyman… and he's been here all along."  – Laurie Strode,  Halloween  (1978) As Cybersecurity Awareness Month unfolds and Halloween looms, one of the m ost chilling threats haunting today's businesses isn't a hacker in a hoodie – it's shadow artificial intelligence (AI) . And it may be lurking in your company right now. What may seem like a harmless shortcut or even a helpful digital assistant can quietly morph into a ghost in your machine, undermining defenses, leaking data, and luring your organization into costly incidents, regulatory nightmares, and reputational damage. This month, as you check your locks and test your alarms, it's worth doing the same for your AI ecosystem. Let this alert serve as your survival playbook to help you detect, contain, and banish the risks of shadow AI – before it becomes the next potential headline that keeps you up at night. What Lurks in the Shadows – What Is Shadow AI? Shadow AI refers to the use of AI...