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After reading the recent FBI report on the state of email related cybercrime in 2022, one statistic popped out at me, when correlating different parts of the report related to Business Email Compromise and Ransomware. 

Mother’s Day is all about getting the family together and celebrating the one person in the family that is often the glue holding things (typical family chaos) together. Better celebrated together; if at all possible. Better together.

We’ve had a few days of insightful discussions at the world’s largest legal IT security event, ILTA LegalSEC. Since many of you are not able to (or not in the right frame of mind to) travel to beautiful Baltimore to experience this event live, I thought I would dedicate this week’s Tech Essentials to sharing the top three FBI-special-agent speaker insights (from my perspective).

Remember that classic book from high school English class, Animal Farm by George Orwell? (This is when the teacher droned on about what an ‘allegory’ was 😊.) Even if you don’t remember, there’s a famous bit where one of the anthropomorphized sheep says, “four legs good, two legs baaad.” What he means is that you should trust the animal that is more sturdy—that sheep don’t teeter and wobble like those unruly two-legged humans.

Today, in fact, a few minutes ago, I received an email from a colleague’s assistant that said, “Good afternoon, earlier today you received an email for the upcoming Summit. Please do not use the information in the file that was at the link in that email. The file contains information some participants have deemed private.