Chat GPT is an AI Chatbot developed by Open AI. Effectively it’s a simulated chatbot primarily designed for customer service; people use it for various other purposes too though. These range from writing essays to drafting business plans, to generating code. The AI chatbot can also hold conversational text interactions with users by employing Artificial Intelligence, and these exchanges can feel as natural as if you were having a chat with a real person.

1. Language Understanding: Chat GPT can comprehend and interpret the meaning of complex queries, even when they are presented in various forms or with incomplete information. It excels at understanding context and can generate responses that align with the given context.
2. Contextual Responses: One of the strengths of Chat GPT is its ability to generate responses that consider the broader context of the conversation. It can maintain a consistent dialogue flow and provide relevant information based on previous interactions.
3. Creative Writing: Chat GPT can assist with generating creative content, such as stories, poems, or scripts. By providing initial prompts or ideas, it can help users explore their imagination and produce unique written material.
4. Language Translation: Leveraging its language understanding capabilities, Chat GPT can also aid in translation tasks by converting text from one language to another while retaining context and meaning.

1. Virtual Assistants: Chat GPT can serve as the backbone of virtual assistants, enhancing their ability to understand and respond to user queries in a more natural and conversational manner.
2. Customer Support: By integrating Chat GPT into customer support systems, companies can automate responses to frequently asked questions, provide instant support, and alleviate customer concerns.
3. Content Generation: Chat GPT can assist writers, marketers, and content creators by generating drafts, brainstorming ideas, or providing creative suggestions.
4. Education and Learning: In the field of education, Chat GPT can act as a tutor, helping students with homework, answering academic questions, and providing explanations on various topics.

While Chat GPT is a powerful language model, it does have certain limitations that are important to be aware of. Here are some of the key limitations of Chat GPT:

• It does not fully understand the complexity of human language.
• Lack of knowledge for data and events after 2021
• Responses can sound like a machine and unnatural.
• It summarizes but does not cite sources.
• It cannot understand sarcasm and irony.
• It may focus on the wrong part of a question and not be able to shift.

Chat GPT represents a significant leap forward in the development of conversational AI and natural language processing. Its advanced language understanding capabilities, coupled with its potential applications, make it a powerful tool in various domains. However, it is essential to be aware of its limitations, address biases, and exercise caution to ensure responsible and ethical use. As the field of AI continues to evolve, Chat GPT promises to shape the way we interact with technology and opens up exciting possibilities for the future.

Create an OpenAI account.

1. Go to chat.OpenAi.com and register for an account with an email address, or a Google or Microsoft account. You need to create an account on the OpenAI website to log in and access ChatGPT.
2. Once you have created an account with ChatGPT, it’s time to get started and ask the language model any burning questions you may have and see what kind of answers you can get.

Business Email Compromise (BEC) is a type of cybercrime in which the hacker impersonates a trusted person (CEO, CFO, Vendor, etc.) or company, gains access to an organization’s email system, and targets employees who have the ability to approve important requests. From there, the hacker posing as the trusted person sends phishing emails that convince the recipient to make all sorts of costly mistakes.

• Access an online banking account
• Be paid for phony invoices
• Order goods through a company’s merchant account
• Unlock corporate records and sensitive data
• Steal loyalty points
• Harvest customer data
• Make unauthorized purchases
• Extort money from you in exchange for your account credentials

Cybercriminals are using LinkedIn and social media to understand their targets beforehand. They’re clever, sophisticated, and relentless. What one employee might not fall for, a different employee will.

Each year the FBI publishes its Internet Crime Report. In 2021, Business Email Compromise (BEC) has become such a big problem that the FBI shared additional detail about this major phishing threat. Here are a few points they shared:

• Business Email Compromise is a scam targeting businesses (not individuals) working with foreign suppliers and/or businesses regularly performing wire transfer payments.
• In 2021, the IC3 received 19,954 Business Email Compromise (BEC)/Email Account Compromise (EAC) complaints with adjusted losses of nearly $2.4 billion.
• The average cost of a successful BEC attack in 2019 was $74,723.44. By 2021 that amount had grown by 61% to $120,073.84.
• Fraudulent wire transfers are often immediately transferred to cryptocurrency wallets and quickly dispersed, making recovery efforts more difficult.
• The IC3 has observed an emergence of newer BEC/EAC schemes that involve phishing emails and exploited virtual meetings. In those meetings, the fraudster would insert a still picture of the CEO with no audio, then claim their audio/video was not working correctly. They would instruct victims to send fraudulent wire transfers and then follow up using the executive’s compromised email to provide wiring instructions.

Understanding BEC and educating your employees that account takeovers and impersonations are common phishing scams can help combat them. However, you should also realize that battles of this magnitude cannot be fought alone.

There are two types of phishing that are key to fighting BEC and other types of email impersonation – stylometry and social graphing.

Stylometry: Much in the same way a high school teacher can spot a plagiarized term paper from an original, our solution gets to know her users so that she can keep an eye out for anyone trying to impersonate them with a phishing email or Account Takeover.

Social Graphing: A new concept in fighting phish, social graphing involves plotting out the various interconnections among different people, groups, and organizations within a network. As your users receive mail from legitimate senders, dynamic profiles and behavior models are built that help filter out and block impersonation attempts.

Our solution is a behavioral email security platform that blocks threats like BEC, uses stylometry, social graphing, and other intuitive technologies to signal out and stop account takeovers.

The average Business Email Compromise (BEC) attack will cost your company $120,073.84. If that’s outside of your budget, it’s time to call us!

Security remains one of the top concerns and most challenging responsibilities facing your small business. With rapid technology adoption and increased remote working, the threat level for SMBs is increasing. Over the past year there has been a 300% increase in Ransomeware and Cyber Attacks on Small and Medium-Sized Businesses. Even the smallest business are a target for a cybersecurity attack. Which is why we will be deploying the best protection to our clients with enterprise-grade endpoint security that’s cost-effective and easy to use.

Endpoint detection and response (EDR) is essentially a “Smart Anti-Virus” that replaces the classic Anti-Virus software with new and advanced features designed to protect your business from cybersecurity threats such as ransomeware.  We will be deploying this Next Generation of threat protection to all our clients, as it gathers and analyzes security threat-related information from computer workstations and other endpoints, with the goal of finding security breaches as they happen and automatically facilitates a quick response and remediation to discovered or potential threats. 

Protect your devices against ransomware and other cyberthreats with industry-leading Defender technologies like endpoint detection and response and threat and vulnerability management.

Defender for Business offers streamlined experiences that guide you to action with recommendations and insights into the security of your endpoints. No specialized knowledge is required, because Defender for Business offers wizard-driven configuration and default security policies that are designed to help protect your company’s devices from day one.

Get up and running quickly with easy,  wizard-based onboarding. Out-of-the box policies and automated investigation and remediation help automatically protect you against the latest threats, so you can focus on running your business.

Automatically investigate alerts to help address complex threats and Proactively guard against threats using human and AI analysis of trillions of signals. 

Today’s cybercriminals employ a variety of incredibly sophisticated techniques that elude even the most skeptical and well-trained eyes. This is where the technology excels. Through innovative computer vision, AI, and machine learning, it catches everything.

Parses every HTML email and reconstructs it to ensure no malicious content like JavaScript or cross-site scripting attacks make it through. This unique email defense is akin to Content Disarm and Reconstruct (CDR) for office documents

Renders every email and runs machine learning classifiers on the output. This unique and innovative approach allows our solution to see each email much like the human recipient, and to understand what brand, if any, originated the mail.

Maintains a sender profile for literally every single email sender it has encountered. This profile encodes aspects of the sender’s writing style, word choices, and punctuation usage, and provides a powerful tool for identifying account takeovers and other impersonations of individuals. No other system does anything like it.

Provides more than 75 types of guidance on the email that users receive, within their inbox, no plugins required. This turns real emails into teachable moments, coaching users on both potential threats and highlighting sensitive emails like payment requests.

Cyber Attacks are constantly on the rise and Cyber Criminals are always trying new ways to get access to your data. One of the most common ways is through Social Engineering. Whether it be via an Email or Phone call, Cyber Criminals have learned that the easiest way to infiltrate your network or gain access to your information is by you simply providing them what they need through Social Engineering.

Cyber Criminals will send emails that may look legitimate at a glance, but in fact they are spoofed emails that are designed to gain key information or get you to install malicious software by clicking on a link or opening an attachment.

The good news is there are ways to prevent this and below is a list of Red Flags to look out for: