Secured Communications

04/28/2022

CPO Magazine - Protecting Your Intellectual Property: "This is an urgent imperative because in today’s fourth industrial revolution, ‘The Digital Age,’ all things produced digitally can be easily abused", especially in the current world climate. Read the article by Norman Willox, Secured Communications board member and information/cyber risk expert, about the critical importance of protecting intellectual property.

As the war in Ukraine intensifies and the risk of cyber-attacks from Russia grows, protecting intellectual property is both a national security issue, and also an economic one.

04/26/2022

Secured Communications is honored to welcome
Top Global Cybersecurity Expert Tom Patterson to its Board of Directors. Tom stated, “We are in a decade of change in the way we work and live, with new ways to compute, communicate, decision, and defend becoming critical success factors. While enterprises are increasing the security of their core infrastructures, it’s crucial that they also better secure the way they now use video conferencing, group messaging, and file sharing. Secured Communications’ Mercury Workspace is built from a core of advanced security and extended to meet the unified communications and collaboration (UCC) needs of today.”

For more information on Secured Communications and Mercury Workspace, visit: https://lnkd.in/gbhkJkW



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04/22/2022

Dark Reading: According to the Cyber Risk Index - 76% of global organizations expect to suffer a cyberattack in the next 12 months, over 80% say their organizations were hit with one or more successful cyberattack in the past 12 months, and 35% suffered seven or more attacks.

Study shows that more than 35% have suffered seven or more successful attacks.

04/21/2022

Threatpost Survey:

89% of organizations experienced 1 or more successful email breaches during the previous 12 months, translating into big-time costs;

A full 89 percent of organizations experienced one or more successful email breaches during the previous 12 months, translating into big-time costs.

04/21/2022

IT Pro: Eight hacking groups have reportedly pledged allegiance to the Russian government, according to latest findings from the US, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and UK cyber authorities. Critical infrastructure and government organisations are especially expected to be at risk.

Eight hacking groups have reportedly pledged allegiance to the Russian government, according to latest findings from the US, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and UK cyber authorities

04/19/2022

What is Mercury, what is MLS and why is it important to use in my daily business communications? Watch this short interview with Damien Fortune, COO of Secured Communications, as he shares how Mercury, the world's first to market and most complete MLS (messaging layer security) platform, is changing the way the world does business.

Mercury powered by Secured Communications is the impenetrable unified collaboration platform (file sharing (unlimited size), messaging, 2k video meetings and calls) trusted by counter terrorism / security professionals and companies worldwide.

Communicate with your team in confidence, with confidence. Every time. For more information, visit https://securedcommunications.com/.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf23edTdHkU

As the FIRST to market with next generation security, Messaging Layer Security (MLS), Mercury offers world class functionality, security and ease of use - al...

04/18/2022

DarkReading: The majority of companies — 63% — have suffered at least one breach in the past 12 months. The global average breach cost $2.4 million — a price tag that increases to $3.0 million for companies unprepared to respond to compromises.

Firms focus too narrowly on external attackers when it's insiders, third parties, and stolen assets that cause many breaches, new study shows.

04/12/2022

Securing and protecting intellectual property (IP) has always been critical for governments and businesses as it is an asset of tremendous value both from a security and an economic standpoint. Read more as Norman Willox, Secured Communications board member and information & cyber risk analysis senior level executive explores the challenges and solutions of protecting intellectual property.

https://theprofessionalsecurityofficer.com/as-russian-cyber-threats-grow-securing-intellectual-property-must-be-an-urgent-national-security-economic-priority-by-norman-willox

04/07/2022

TechRepublic: The scam was able to bypass Google and Microsoft’s email security filters after appearing to come from a legitimate email domain.

The scam was able to bypass Google and Microsoft’s email security filters after appearing to come from a legitimate email domain.

04/05/2022

Tired of having to pay for and understand multiple different communications platforms for your business (messaging, file sharing, meetings) that can make it costly, confusing and cumbersome for your team? Would you rather have a product that does everything you need, is the most secured and intuitive platform on the market AND saves you money?

Use Mercury, the all-in-one virtual office that allows your team to communicate using the world's first and most complete messaging layer security (MLS) with messaging, unlimited file size sharing, 2k video meetings, all in one platform. Learn more: https://securedcommunications.com/about.html

04/04/2022

https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-need-two-factor-authentication-but-some-types-are-safer-than-others-11648930708?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Issue:%202022-04-04%20Cybersecurity%20Dive%20%5Bissue:40829%5D&utm_term=Cybersecurity%20Dive

Security keys offer the highest level of protection, while authentication apps are more widely supported. Avoid text-message codes if you can.

04/04/2022

https://venturebeat.com/2022/03/31/gartner-lists-seven-cybersecurity-trends-for-2022/

Gartner's seven trends clearly indicate that, for enterprises and their CISOs, cybersecurity needs to be a business enabler first.