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Email Server Vulnerability and Anti-Spam Protection Techniques

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The role of cyber security in modern business is hard to overstate. Almost all business processes are automated to a degree and thus need to be thoroughly protected from any potential tampering. Vendors use anti-malware and anti-reverse engineering techniques to protect their products, but they can’t possibly weed out every vulnerability. One particularly vulnerable area […]… Read More

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Everything US Citizens Need to Know about the Broadband Privacy Rules

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An ongoing source of havoc among American internet users, the new FCC broadband rules are still encountering extreme criticism. The majority of support for the rules comes from congressional officials, who overturned the previously existing broadband rules and thereby gave unjustified favor to internet service providers. The new FCC rules are killing net neutrality, and […]… Read More

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No One Cares About Digital Security… Until it Breaks

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I’m sure that everyone out there identifies with the title of this article in some way. We’ve all faced an issue where we were trying to get the attention of someone outside of the security field, so that they would pay attention to some sort of digital security issue. Basically, they were outside of the digital […]… Read More

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How to Choose a WordPress Security Plugin that’s Right for You

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There are currently 50,416 plugins available in the WordPress repository. Out of these, roughly seven percent are security-based plugins. At the same time, when you search Google for “WordPress security plugin,” 14,600,000 results come up. How can you choose a plugin from all these options? To answer that question, it’s important to understand what a […]… Read More

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The CISO Challenge

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Security concerns at firms continue to increase. It’s estimated that the cost of a single data breach is $4 million. Analysts estimate that cyber security attacks have caused the value of shares of publicly traded companies to drop by over $52 billion. The losses incurred by firms are only going into grow. Increasingly, bad actors […]… Read More

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The CISO Challenge

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Security concerns at firms continue to increase. It’s estimated that the cost of a single data breach is $4 million. Analysts estimate that cyber security attacks have caused the value of shares of publicly traded companies to drop by over $52 billion. The losses incurred by firms are only going into grow. Increasingly, bad actors […]… Read More

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Ransomware: Building Cyber Resilience

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In our first article, we defined a ransomware attack and its impact on non-profit organisations, and we made some recommendations for preventing such attacks. In this article, we look at ransomware in more depth to provide a better understanding of how to build cyber resilience. There is a growing threat to cyber-security in various dimensions […]… Read More

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Ransomware: Building Cyber Resilience

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In our first article, we defined a ransomware attack and its impact on non-profit organisations, and we made some recommendations for preventing such attacks. In this article, we look at ransomware in more depth to provide a better understanding of how to build cyber resilience. There is a growing threat to cyber-security in various dimensions […]… Read More

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For Your Eyes Only: Why Data Masking Needs to Be in Every Data Security Strategy

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Data security is rife with complexities. The threats against an organization’s data are massive and ever-evolving, and the consequences of a breach are devastating, sometimes crippling, for a business, so it’s unsurprising that there are dozens if not hundreds of factors to be taken into consideration when it comes to securing databases. That’s why it’s […]… Read More

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Book Review: Ghost in The Wires – Kevin Mitnick

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While attending the RSA show in February, I met Kevin (@KevinMitnick) and obtained a copy of The Art of Invisibility, which I immediately read. Due to the great many references to Kevin’s past, I thought it would be informative and worthwhile to read Ghost in the Wires. It’s also listed on the Tripwire 10 must-read […]… Read More

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