Dealerships collect a staggering amount of personal data. From just a single interaction (like an online form or in-person visit), you’re holding onto names, addresses, driver’s licenses, bank info, employment history, and credit scores. That’s before you even talk about service records or connected vehicle data. From financial information to identification records, the data you [...]
Why are dealerships facing more cyberattacks than ever before? We’re living in a world that runs on data — a whole lot of it. Every day, more than 400 billion gigabytes are created online. That’s roughly 1.7 megabytes per second, per person. Amazing? Yes. Dangerous? Also, yes. While we’re enjoying immediate access to pretty much [...]
Accounting just emailed you an invoice. You click the link, and your computer acts a little strange. It was probably nothing, just a random glitch… right? Two days later, your entire dealership network is down. It sounds like a nightmare, but it’s also just another Tuesday in auto retail cybersecurity. With nonstop emails, employees bouncing [...]
Over 90 percent of all successful cyberattacks begin with a phishing scam. That means your biggest cybersecurity risk isn’t an elite hacker breaking through your defenses — it’s someone at your dealership clicking the wrong link. One moment of panic or curiosity can open the door to ransomware, data theft, or a complete system shutdown. [...]
Have you ever caught yourself telling a story only to realize that about halfway through, you forgot to give all the context upfront? Sure, the story still makes sense, but it would have been much better had you given it the proper start. Long story short, we just had one of those moments. Being so [...]
It’s been a crazy year for the automotive industry. Over the summer, a ransomware incident affected thousands of dealers nationwide. In the aftermath of that incident, we noticed a dramatic spike in cyber-attacks targeting dealerships. If those threats weren’t enough, dealers in certain parts of the country were also affected by hurricanes Helene and Milton. [...]
A dealership employee, a password, and a phish all step into an email inbox. Sounds like the start of a bad joke doesn’t it? It’s just the beginning of a story heard all too often.
Many people believe that simply having a firewall is enough protection for their network. That just isn’t the case anymore. So, how does a proactive cybersecurity approach work?
