Visibility, Awareness and Control
Cybersecurity risks are not always caused by sophisticated attacks or major system failures. In many cases, risk builds quietly through everyday habits, overlooked processes, and limited visibility into where data is stored or how users interact with systems.
As organisations continue to adopt AI tools, cloud platforms, and increasingly distributed ways of working, maintaining control over users, data, and business processes is becoming more challenging.
Why Security Awareness Training Can Fail
Most organisations, including Symetri, provide some form of cybersecurity awareness training, yet phishing attacks, credential theft, and accidental data exposure continue to succeed. The challenge is often not whether employees understand the risks, but whether they act safely when faced with a real-world situation.
Too often, security awareness programmes focus on completing training rather than changing behaviour. In practice, employees need simple, repeatable habits that help them make safe decisions under pressure.
Why It’s a Risk:
Generic content may not reflect the threats employees face every day
Users may understand the risks but still take unsafe actions when under pressure
What You Can Do:
Create simple rules employees can remember:
Reinforce that pausing to verify a request is always acceptable
Focus on creating safe default behaviours rather than simply increasing awareness
Protecting Accounts Payable From AI Fraud
AI-generated content is making impersonation attacks more convincing than ever. Fraudsters can now create realistic emails, documents, and even cloned voices that appear to come from trusted colleagues, suppliers, or senior leaders.
As a result, Accounts Payable teams are increasingly becoming a target for payment diversion scams and fraudulent financial requests.
Why It’s a Risk:
AI-generated emails and documents are becoming harder to distinguish from legitimate communications
Voice cloning technology can make verbal payment requests appear genuine
Traditional visual checks are no longer enough to verify authenticity
What You Can Do:
Implement out-of-band verification for payment changes and urgent requests
Require secondary verification for verbal approvals
Create a culture where employees feel comfortable pausing to verify requests
Do You Know Where Your Critical Data Actually Lives?
As businesses expand across cloud platforms, collaboration tools, and hybrid environments, critical data can quickly become fragmented across multiple locations. Without visibility and governance, organisations may struggle to protect sensitive information effectively.
Why It’s a Risk:
Sensitive data may be duplicated across unmanaged or unknown locations
Users may store files outside approved platforms for convenience
Lack of visibility increases compliance and security risks
What You Can Do:
Conduct regular data discovery and classification exercises
Define approved storage locations and governance policies
Use DLP and monitoring tools to identify and reduce data exposure
Vulnerabilities
Staying aware of newly disclosed vulnerabilities and active threats remains essential for reducing exposure and prioritising remediation.
Active Vulnerabilities & Security Advisories
- Ubiquiti Patches Three Maximum-Severity UniFi OS Vulnerabilities
Ubiquiti has released patches for three critical vulnerabilities affecting UniFi OS. Successful exploitation could allow attackers to compromise affected systems and gain elevated access. Organisations using UniFi infrastructure should ensure updates are applied promptly. - Microsoft Warns of New Defender Zero-Days Exploited in Attacks
Microsoft has disclosed active exploitation of previously unknown vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Defender. These flaws highlight the importance of maintaining current security updates and monitoring endpoint protection platforms for unusual activity. - Hackers Bypass SonicWall VPN MFA Due to Incomplete Patching
Researchers have identified attacks targeting SonicWall VPN appliances where incomplete patching allowed attackers to bypass MFA protections. This serves as a reminder that partial remediation can leave organisations exposed, even when security controls are in place. - Cisco Warns of New Critical SD-WAN Flaw Exploited in Zero-Day Attacks
Cisco has warned that a critical vulnerability affecting SD-WAN deployments is being actively exploited in zero-day attacks. Organisations should review affected devices and prioritise patching immediately. - Microsoft Edge Stores Passwords in Memory as Plain Text
Security researchers have highlighted that Microsoft Edge may temporarily store passwords in memory as plain text under certain circumstances. While this does not represent a direct vulnerability on its own, it reinforces the need for endpoint protection, privileged access controls, and strong device security practices.
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