Elder Check-In: Keeping Your Parent Cyber-Safe
An important and sometimes dismissed aspect of cybersecurity is how we talk about it with our elders. They are a vulnerable sector of our communities -- and threat actors are well aware of this vulnerability.
Regularly Occurring IT Safety Meetings: They Work at Home Too
What if a simple, regular conversation about technology—at work and at home—could quietly strengthen cyber resilience, reduce risk, and help people feel more confident navigating the digital world?
What Is a “Safe” Amount of Screen Time? A Two-Part Answer to Consider
This is the first part in a new series by Beauceron team members talking about issues around digital life and cyber-safety from their personal experiences.
Inside Scattered Spider’s Web — and How to Escape It
On June 28, the FBI issued a warning that the cybercriminal group known as Scattered Spider is actively targeting the airline industry. This group, composed primarily of English-speaking young adults from the U.S. and U.K., is known for its sophisticated social engineering tactics and collaboration with ransomware-as-a-service syndicates.
Why Critical Thinking Matters When Using AI
Let’s face it — there’s a lot of information flying at us every day online. Critical thinking is how we make sense of it all. It means asking questions, looking at the facts, and thinking about different sides of every story. Critical thinking helps us understand what we believe and stay open to new ideas
It Can Happen to Anyone: Staying Safe from Cyber-Enabled Fraud in 2025
Welcome to 2025, where cyber-enabled fraud has become more persuasive, profitable, and devastating than ever before. Staying informed isn’t just smart—it’s an essential line of defense against criminals who prey on our hopes, fears, and compassion.
Protecting Yourself from Romance Scams
Romance scams are among the most psychologically manipulative forms of cyber fraud. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Americans reported over $1 billion in losses to romance scams in 2023, making it one of the costliest types of consumer fraud.
Here’s to a Cyber Secure 2025
2025 is here and there is no better time for some cyber-themed New Year’s resolutions! Here’s our top recommendations for you to start off the new year with greater security and enhanced privacy.
Beauceron Security’s 2024 Holiday Cyber Safety Guide
As holiday shoppers – with their friends and family in mind – gear up to hunt for the best deals in-store and online, criminals are once again ramping up their scams.
What You Need to Know About Financial Fraud
Financial fraud continues to be an easy means for criminals to make money from unsuspecting targets. As attacks continue to grow in volume, it is important that you are able to recognize the warning signs.
2024 Cybersecurity Predictions
The new year brings new and more sophisticated threats to prepare for. Advancements in technology and changes in the economic climate have provided ample opportunities for cybercriminals to fill their pockets. Keep reading to learn about our predictions for cybersecurity trends you’ll see this year.
How to Stay Cyber Safe During the Holidays
To help keep you cyber safe this holiday season, we’ve compiled some of the top holiday scams to look out for with recommendations on how to guard against them.
Phishing-as-a-Service: What You Need To Know To Stay Cyber-Safe
One of the newer forms of attack leverages Phishing-as-a-Service to steal credentials and take control of your accounts. Keep reading to learn more about this form of phishing and how to keep yourself safe.
Grandparent and Emergency Scams
In this blog, we’ll take a deep dive into the grandparent scam and explore how you can protect yourself and your family members from these types of threats.
How to Protect Yourself from ChatGPT Scams
In this blog, we’ll go over scams cybercriminals have crafted using ChatGPT and provide best practices on how to protect yourself and stay cyber safe online.
ChatGPT and Getting our Minds Around Artificial Intelligence
With so many competing headlines proclaiming AI as humanity’s next great technology savior while others prophesize it will be our doom, it can be hard to get a sense for where we’re at.
Here’s what we know.
Phishing Deep Dive: How to Effectively Phish Employees
Phishing is not about tricking employees into falling for your latest phishing simulation. Instead, phishing should be viewed as an opportunity to educate and prepare your employees to catch and report suspected phish. In this blog we’ll cover when employees are most susceptible to falling for phishing attacks and the 5 Rs of phishing to better ensure your phishing security awareness program will prepare employees to be your best first line of defense against cyber risk.
How to Implement Consequences and Rewards in Your Security Awareness Program
Your security awareness program can’t be based on just consequence or rewards – it needs to incorporate both. Understanding how to implement both consequences and rewards into your program can feel like a bit of a balancing act, so we’ve broken down how both work and can be easily incorporated into your existing security awareness program.
The Fundamentals of a Security Awareness Program
Whether you’re just getting started and don’t have a security awareness program in place, or you’re looking to build on to an existing program, for cybersecurity awareness month this year we’re bringing it back to the basics and covering the fundamentals of a security awareness program.
Protecting Company Data Out of Office
The loosening of pandemic related restrictions such as social distancing means that the occasional after work get together with colleagues is now back in order, and folks that haven’t seen each other in a long time are eager to celebrate. Employees who work with sensitive data are entrusted to keep that data safe and have a responsibility to safeguard that information. But what happens when they are invited out after work?