Amy Cadagin

Amy Cadagin is Executive Director of the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group, a non-profit cybersecurity consortium focused on combating online abuse, including malware, spam, viruses, among other forms of exploitation. Since 2006, she’s played an integral role in facilitating collaboration between the largest names in technology around the industry’s most pressing challenges, developing cybersecurity best practices, and driving the growth and success of M3AAWG.

Bringing BEC home: How to protect against BEC attacks while remote

Amy Cadagin

September 3, 2020

In 2019, Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks – a long-standing cybersecurity threat – accounted for $1.7 billion in losses, with cybercriminals using new tactics and techniques to carry out existing attacks. As cybercrime spikes in the wake of COVID-19, BEC’s toll is expected to rise this year. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently issued a warning to businesses on the growing threat of BEC attacks using the pandemic as a backdrop for unusual requests like payments to a “new” vendor or a change of account information.

ON DEMAND: In this webinar, Regina Lester, Vice President of Security & Safety Operations at Toledo Zoo, will share her insights on implementing security technologies in the entertainment sector and the challenges all organizations face — large and small — when it comes to balancing budget and security.

Amy Cadagin

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Bringing BEC home: How to protect against BEC attacks while remote

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