In today's digital landscape, ensuring robust email security measures is paramount to safeguarding staff from potential cyber threats, shielding the organization's reputation, and ensuring the reliable delivery of emails. Despite being essential communication tools, most email platforms integrated into productivity suites like Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 aren't configured with the utmost security by default. Strengthening these aspects is vital to fortify defenses against evolving threats and maintain a secure and trustworthy communication environment. Check out our post about how to improve the security of your email provider.

Cyber Security News For January 2024

It's been over a year since the advent of ChatGPT, marking a significant shift in how people and organizations leverage technology. Organizations are increasingly leveraging AI-powered tools to streamline operations, as well as bolster productivity and creativity through AI-human collaboration, and to reduce repetitive tasks.

At RipRap Security, we help guide customers on establishing responsible AI usage guidelines. Based on our experience crafting AI-focused policies and security controls, we wanted to share some key elements pivotal for any organization's AI policy.

Email is a cornerstone of business communication, and accordingly, knowing how to protect and ensure reliability of these communications is crucial. Today, we're focusing on three pivotal tools in email security: SPF, DMARC, and DKIM. These acronyms represent technologies designed to authenticate email sources and ensure the integrity of email messages. They play a critical role in defending against common threats like spam, phishing, and email spoofing.

However, it's important to recognize that tools like SPF, DMARC, and DKIM aren't just shields against threats; they also play a role in ensuring your emails actually reach their intended recipients. They make them more trustworthy and more likely to land in the right inboxes. And by February 2024, Google and Yahoo will begin enforcing the use of these technologies for organizations that send a lot of email, so now’s a perfect time to check up on your email security, ensuring that your emails get to where they need to go.

Let’s explore how these tools work hand in hand to keep your emails safe and effectively delivered.

A new year brings new year’s resolutions. Maybe we try to eat a little healthier and hit the gym a little more often. Our team of hacker and cyber security engineers suggests you try something a bit different this year - make a resolution to improve your organization’s cyber security.

In this post, we’ll talk about a few initiatives that drastically improve security and lower your risk of cyber attacks.

October is Cyber Security Awareness Month and this year’s theme is “Secure Our World” In keeping with this year’s theme, we wanted to share our most frequently implemented quick security wins. Our intention is to help organizations and individuals alike take concrete steps to improve their security posture.

Recently, our team has been looking back through our projects over the last few years to identify trends and uncover interesting metrics. One of the key research areas was to understand why organizations have reached out to us to seek cyber security support.

We wanted to share the insights from our research in the hopes that it can help you understand when the time is right to engage a cyber security company for help.

Travel is still a big part of work these days, regardless if your organization is fully remote, hybrid, or in-office. We often get questions about what organizations can do to keep their employees, devices, and data safe while they are on the go so we wanted to share some of our top tips.

Our goal is to provide a set of actionable, totally free measures you can take to keep things secure on the road.

It’s never easy to let a member of your organization go. Employee departures, whether voluntary or involuntary, can pose serious cybersecurity risks to organizations. Failing to promptly address these risks can lead to data breaches, unauthorized access, and potential harm to the company's reputation. In this blog post, we will outline crucial cybersecurity considerations to keep in mind when an employee leaves your organization, along with five additional suggestions to enhance your security measures.

Greetings, fellow Star Wars fans! Cyber security is an important issue that affects everyone, even those living in a galaxy far, far away. So, let's explore three key cyber security lessons we can learn from the Star Wars universe!

As cybersecurity experts, we eagerly anticipate annual high-level reports from leading cybersecurity companies like IBM and Verizon. The global reach of these organizations enables them to offer valuable insights that inform our customers' cybersecurity strategies. At RipRap Security, we primarily support small-to-medium-sized organizations and nonprofits, but these reports provide excellent insight into techniques used against larger organizations across various industries, including government, critical infrastructure, and transportation.

In this post, we share key insights from the 2023 IBM report to help inform and educate readers.

In mid-April 2023, the RipRap Security team attended NTC23, the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference in Denver. We had an incredible time getting to meet people doing great things in their communities. Our team was also honored to present alongside our partner, 1% for the Planet, on their cyber security journey.

We learned so much and wanted to take some time to memorialize some highlights from the conference.

Earth Day is a time to reflect on the importance of protecting our planet and taking action to preserve its natural resources for future generations. At RipRap Security, we recognize the urgent need to address environmental issues and are excited to support environmental causes through our 1% for the Planet membership. Our 1% for the Planet membership is a commitment to accountability, partnership building, and doing better for people and planet.

Our team wanted to share a bit about our efforts throughout 2022 to improve the security of our partners and expand our dedication to environmental causes, as well as a bit of what's planned for 2023.