RiverTrail Technology Blog

Corporate wire fraud routinely stems from a breakdown in operational procedures rather than a failure of firewall technology. Consider what happens if your billing department receives an email from a primary vendor requesting an immediate change to their banking routing numbers. The communication features flawless branding and a highly polished tone. Without rigorous validation processes, accounting personnel frequently accept these altered requests at face value, resulting in severe financial losses. Managing this risk requires a strategic combination of robust digital defenses and non-negotiable operational workflows.

Think of your employees as the front door to your business. You can have the most expensive deadbolt in the world—your firewall—but if your team keeps leaving the keys under the mat, the deadbolt doesn't matter.

Most security breaches aren't the result of a mastermind hacker bypassing your code; they happen because an employee was just trying to be productive. Here are the three most common accidental threats facing your business and how to fix them.

I was talking to some colleagues the other day about cybersecurity and its relationship with modern everyday scams, like phone scams and similar things. In my opinion, it’s worth bundling these two topics together, and we found some interesting statistics that we’d like to share.