Business Email Compromise Scams Remain a Billion-Dollar Problem - Guest: Ken Dunham, Optiv
08/14/19 • 30 min
Business email compromise (BEC) scams are not going away anytime soon. For such a relatively low-tech type of financial fraud, it has proved to be a high-yield and lucrative enterprise for scammers. But the prevention measures are not expensive and not technology dependent.
Listen as Ken Dunham;Senior Technical Director, Cyber Operations for Optiv discusses this growing issue, the process hackers use, the root cause and prevention recommendations you can use for cloud security when adopting the cloud and why transparency is so important.
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Business email compromise (BEC) scams are not going away anytime soon. For such a relatively low-tech type of financial fraud, it has proved to be a high-yield and lucrative enterprise for scammers. But the prevention measures are not expensive and not technology dependent.
Listen as Ken Dunham;Senior Technical Director, Cyber Operations for Optiv discusses this growing issue, the process hackers use, the root cause and prevention recommendations you can use for cloud security when adopting the cloud and why transparency is so important.
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