{"id":4036,"date":"2026-07-22T02:26:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/boston-ma-1020\/?p=4036"},"modified":"2026-07-03T06:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:38:26","slug":"the-most-dangerous-risks-in-your-business-dont-swim-on-the-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/boston-ma-1020\/blog\/the-most-dangerous-risks-in-your-business-dont-swim-on-the-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Dangerous Risks in Your Business Don’t Swim on the Surface\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the surface, the water looks calm.<\/span><\/p>\n

That’s what makes Shark Week fascinating every year. The danger is never visible on the surface. It’s what’s already moving underneath.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cybercriminals operate the same way. The threats businesses face right now are designed to blend in with normal operations until the moment something breaks, money moves or systems go down.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the summer months, when schedules shift, employees travel and oversight gets thinner, cybercriminals know businesses are often paying less attention. It is not that summer creates new vulnerabilities out of nowhere. It is that the same vulnerabilities that exist year-round become easier to exploit when fewer people are watching closely, which is exactly the kind of gap solid<\/span> it support<\/span><\/a> is designed to close.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are three ways they’re circling right now.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fake Invoices and Vendor Impersonation<\/b><\/h2>\n

Attackers don’t need to hack anything. In many cases, they need to send just one believable email.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is called business email compromise (BEC) and it works by impersonating a vendor, supplier or executive your team already trusts.<\/span><\/p>\n

The email arrives looking completely normal, someone on your team pays the “vendor,” and by the time anyone realizes the request wasn’t legitimate, the damage is done.<\/span><\/p>\n

These attacks spike during vacation season for a simple reason. When the person who normally approves payments is out, requests get rerouted to people who don’t always know what normal looks like. Temporary stand-ins are less likely to question urgency and attackers know it.<\/span><\/p>\n

The fix is simple to implement: build a verification process for any financial request received via email. A quick confirmation call to a known number, not the number listed in the email, is enough to stop most of these before they go anywhere. Partnering with a managed<\/span> business cybersecurity<\/span><\/a> services team means having the right email filtering and threat detection controls in place before that fake invoice ever reaches your team.<\/span><\/p>\n

This kind of protection works best when it is layered. Email filtering catches a large share of these attempts before they land in an inbox at all. A clear internal verification policy catches most of what slips through the filter. And ongoing monitoring through<\/span> managed security services<\/span><\/a> helps identify unusual payment activity or account behavior before a mistaken payment becomes an unrecoverable loss.<\/span><\/p>\n

Phishing Attacks That Target Distracted Employees<\/b><\/h2>\n

Phishing works because it’s engineered around how people behave when they’re busy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cybercriminals design these moments deliberately. A distracted employee sees a password reset notification and clicks the link. Someone gets a text that looks like it came from IT. An email lands right before a meeting asking for urgent approval on a wire transfer. Nobody stops to verify because stopping feels like losing time.<\/span><\/p>\n

The most effective protection isn’t a software solution; it’s culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

Employees need to feel comfortable slowing down when something seems off:<\/span><\/p>\n