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Look for typos. Check for a strange sender address. Be suspicious of anything that sounds "off." That's still the core of a lot of phishing awareness training, and it teaches your team to catch the scams that... Continue Reading

Ask a business owner to picture a cyberattack and you'll get the same image almost every time: someone on the other side of the world, hammering away at the firewall. It's one of the most persistent myths in... Continue Reading

Last year, phishing was the leading initial attack vector in data breaches worldwide, and most of the employees who clicked never saw it coming, because no one had ever shown them what a real lure looks like.... Continue Reading

I spent more than three decades running security and IT programs inside Fortune 500 companies — including director-level security roles at Campbell Soup and Motor Coach Industries — before founding... Continue Reading

An MSP just emailed you offering a free network security assessment, which could be great, but before you hand over credentials to your firewall, you deserve to know whether you're getting a genuine vulnerability... Continue Reading

Every new relationship with Argentum IT starts the same way: a 15-minute discovery call, before any contract, before any sales pitch. We ask what systems you depend on, what your team would actually do if they went... Continue Reading

Firewalls, endpoint protection, and email filters all operate at the network and device layer. Social engineering attacks like phishing, vishing, and pretexting are designed to bypass those controls entirely by... Continue Reading

Business disruptions rarely arrive with warning sirens — but they can still cost you revenue, customer trust, and hours of productivity before anyone knows what to do next. It's a Monday morning when the... Continue Reading

A healthcare practice owner gets a call from a "Microsoft tech" warning that their server is compromised, and by the time they realize it's a scam, an employee has already handed over their Microsoft 365... Continue Reading