Right Place, Right Time, Right Crypto

On the battlefield, communications are critical. Shooting, moving and communicating is what keeps you alive. Losing comms is not an option. If you can't talk to other units on the ground or air assets overhead, they might as well not be there.

Similarly, keeping your communications secure is vital to a successful operation. If the bad guys can hear your traffic or determine your location based on you radio frequency, you lose the advantage and are likely to get ambushed.

In business, your communications are just as important. If you can't send/receive calls, access your data or use the internet, your operations will likely grind to a halt.

When a business has their communications compromised, the same thing can happen. An attacker can gain critical information about how you conduct business, when you send money, who you trust and what your next moves will be.

We are seeing an explosion of attacks on businesses of all sizes, but especially small and medium business. These firms are not used to the volume on sophistication of attacks coming there way, and often we find that their communications have been breached for months (200+ days on average) before they become aware.

Attackers use this time to map you organization, learn where you rely on trust vs policy and determine how best to exploit their foothold in your environment. From there, they can launch any number of follow-on attacks, like sending out phishing emails to your customers, stealing intellectual property or holding critical systems for ransom.

On the battlefield, I was responsible for keeping my team's communications up and running, no matter the arena or situation. In business, I strive to find the holes in a business' communications security, consider how they might fail (or have already failed in the past) and determine which combination of systems, behaviors and policies would best close these gaps in security.

If you know of a business who needs to improve their communications security, give us a call. CloudHound knows how to keep you calm, cool and connected.

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