Alrighty y'all.
Got this idea from @Supa after reading his awesome thread about preventative measures. It also made me realize I have quite a collection of stories from my day-to-day in cybersecurity that are too good (or too painful) not to share.
So here's the first one and I'll try to post periodically in here. Mostly just a fun one for me.
Through what is known as Business Email Compromise (BEC), the attacker impersonated one of his vendors. Everything looked legitimate, so he sent the wire without thinking twice.
Feeling bad for the guy... I offered to come in, assess his Microsoft 365 environment, and implement security controls to help reduce the likelihood of this happening again.
My quote?
$1,800.
About 10% of what he'd just lost.
His response?
I understood where he was coming from. He'd just lost a significant amount of money... and that stings.
But it also reminded me of something I see all the time.
People often hesitate to invest in prevention after they've already paid far more for the consequences.
It's a bit like having someone break into your house and steal your safe, then deciding a security system is too expensive.
Almost like choosing hard... instead of easy.
Lesson learned:
The cost of prevention always feels expensive... until you compare it to the cost of recovery.
Got this idea from @Supa after reading his awesome thread about preventative measures. It also made me realize I have quite a collection of stories from my day-to-day in cybersecurity that are too good (or too painful) not to share.
So here's the first one and I'll try to post periodically in here. Mostly just a fun one for me.
Tale #1: The $18,000 Wire
I received a call from an individual who had just wired $18,000 to a scammer.Through what is known as Business Email Compromise (BEC), the attacker impersonated one of his vendors. Everything looked legitimate, so he sent the wire without thinking twice.
Feeling bad for the guy... I offered to come in, assess his Microsoft 365 environment, and implement security controls to help reduce the likelihood of this happening again.
My quote?
$1,800.
About 10% of what he'd just lost.
His response?
I understood where he was coming from. He'd just lost a significant amount of money... and that stings.
But it also reminded me of something I see all the time.
People often hesitate to invest in prevention after they've already paid far more for the consequences.
It's a bit like having someone break into your house and steal your safe, then deciding a security system is too expensive.
Almost like choosing hard... instead of easy.
Lesson learned:
The cost of prevention always feels expensive... until you compare it to the cost of recovery.
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