Dan Virgillito

Dan Virgillito is a blogger and content strategist with experience in cyber security, social media and tech news.

Articles from Dan Virgillito

BEC Attacks: How Fake Invoice Schemes Work

May 10, 2018

According to Agari's Business Email Compromise (BEC) Attack Trends Report, 96% of companies experienced BEC attacks in the second half of 2017, mainly becaus

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Pentesting for PCI DSS compliance: 6 key requirements

April 12, 2018

For any organization that processes, stores or transmits credit card data, penetration testing has been an obligation since 2013. That's when the compliance

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10 Steps to Detect Lateral Movement in a Data Breach

March 22, 2018

Many enterprises spend millions of dollars on solutions that promise to bolster their security. However, much less focus is placed on the ability to detect l

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Penetration Testing Methodology for Mobile Applications: 5 Key Steps

March 22, 2018

The astonishing growth in mobile technologies has introduced many new vulnerabilities. According to findings from Verizon's inaugural Mobile Security Index 2

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Broadpwn Wi-Fi Vulnerability: How to Detect & Mitigate

March 15, 2018

It can be easy to think our mobile devices are more secure than they are. However, that is just not the case. In the last three years, there have been dozens

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Top Ten Information Security Thought Leaders

February 18, 2018

Living in an information age can be daunting. Even if you manage to cut out the noise of social media, and the unceasing barrage of ads, there is still an el

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Top 10 Ways to Make Sure Your BYOD Program Is Secure

December 16, 2017

BYOD implementation has become the new standard within enterprise organizations, and there's no sign of things slowing down. According to Cisco, 69% of IT de

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Security Awareness for Sales Representatives

August 30, 2017

The performance of salespersons is usually measured in terms of revenue, not in terms of security awareness. As a result, most of their efforts are geared to

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How Hackers Use Fear and Urgency to Get Your Information

June 2, 2017

Your PayPal account is frozen. Provide documents or lose it. The IRS is saying there is an error on your tax return, click the link to resolve it. Your loved

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How Security Awareness Training Can Protect Small Businesses

March 29, 2017

Small businesses are progressively utilizing information technology in business processes, but aren't doing it securely. In essence, they do not believe adve

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Cyber Threat Assessment Template For Special Forces

June 9, 2015

The growing number of cyber threats highlight the risks that US critical infrastructure and Special Forces face. Once considered weak in nature compared to o

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Security Policy Template for Web Applications

April 2, 2015

Web applications are critical to the enterprise infrastructure. Companies rely on them to communicate with partners, clients, shareholders and others, as wel

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