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Cyber Crime Report Finds Old Breaches Led to New Breaches How do you think your company fares in cybersecurity readiness? This question came to my mind today after reading two articles. The first was a Tech Target article that discussed what every company should know about cybersecurity readiness. One of the points in this piece […]

5 Security Steps to Protect Users from Ransomware A new variant of ransomware shows just how low and dirty malware developers are willing to get. Even the name is offensive. When Hitler-Ransomware (yes, that’s the name) infects a computer, it locks the screen with a picture of Hitler and the phrase, “This is Hitler-Ransonware” (sic) […]

5 Steps for Proactive Cyber Risk Management In January 2016, Forbes reported on the job prospects for those interested in a cybersecurity career: More than 209,000 cybersecurity jobs in the U.S. are unfilled, and postings are up 74 percent over the past five years, according to a 2015 analysis of numbers from the Bureau of […]

5 Security Steps to Protect Users from Ransomware I didn’t get to attend security conference Black Hat this year, but based on the highlights I’ve been seeing, ransomware is a major topic. I’m not surprised (and I’m sure my readers aren’t, either). As ComputerWeekly pointed out, ransomware is the security concern of the summer. I’d […]

Securing AD for Hybrid Cloud Environments A new study by Ponemon Institute and Gemalto has gone a long way in pinpointing the reasons why so many organizations struggle with cloud security. One of the findings in The 2016 Global Cloud Data Security Study is that our approach to cloud security doesn’t follow the organization’s regular […]

Scammers Go Phishing: Business Email Compromise on the Rise I’ve been following the coverage of the Wikileaks release of the DNC’s hacked emails, and I’m more interested in what isn’t being talked about. Was it embarrassing for the DNC? Well sure, just like it would be embarrassing for any of us to have our conversations […]

Health Care Data Breaches: 5 Tips for Protecting Sensitive Information We know that ransomware is a menace for just about everyone, but the health care industry has been hit unusually hard by this particular type of attack. In fact, according to Solutionary’s Security Engineering Research Team (SERT) Quarterly Threat Report for Q2 2016, the health […]

5 Steps for Proactive Cyber Risk Management Stephen Cobb from ESET wrote a blog post last week discussing the security of today’s computer-driven vehicles and the threat of malware infection. Cobb specifically talks about what is called jackware, which he described as: malicious software that seeks to take control of a device, the primary purpose […]

How to Minimize the Impact of BYOD and Improve Security Last week, I talked about Pokemon Go and security problems, one of which is a Google-related flaw for iOS users, which has been addressed and hopefully fixed. That’s the good news for iPhone users (and for BYOD security issues). The bad news is that there […]

When the Boss Leaves, What Data Is at Risk? I would think that the one area in the network infrastructure that is a security priority for IT and security administrators is privileged accounts that control access to servers, firewalls, applications, and so on. There is a reason why so few people in any organization hold […]

5 Steps for Proactive Cyber Risk Management We often talk about different threats as if they stand alone: insider threats, outside hackers, ransomware attacks, DDoS, and so on. But perhaps the time has come to change the dialogue a bit and admit that threats are multi-layered. Malicious actors on the outside depend on insiders to […]

How to Minimize the Impact of BYOD and Improve Security If you didn’t think your company needed to put a BYOD policy in place, the popularity of Pokemon GO may change your mind. The app has been available for a week, and, at least for now, users are spending more time per day playing the […]