Leader’s Guide to Cybersecurity Scams: Protecting Your Organization from Digital Threats

The cybersecurity landscape has fundamentally shifted. While you’ve been working to protect your organization from technical attacks on your systems, criminals have been perfecting social engineering tactics that bypass your firewalls entirely. They’re monitoring LinkedIn for new hires, scraping your website for board member information, and crafting personalized attacks that exploit the trust and urgency that make mission-driven work effective. 

The fact is that if your organization has a website or uses email, everyone in your organization is a potential target for online scams. But with the right information and preparation, you can limit your organization’s exposure to these threats and understand how to respond when they occur.

In this guide, you’ll learn:

• How to recognize and prevent impersonation scams.
• Why traditional two-factor authentication is no longer sufficient protection.
• Prevent social engineering attacks with practical verification protocols.
• Protect your leadership with board-specific cybersecurity strategies.
• Step-by-step incident response planning.
• Implementation roadmaps that respect your reality.