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U.S. Senate Votes Could Put Your Data Privacy at Risk

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Data privacy is a concern for many Americans, but the U.S. Senate is on its way to putting your data at even higher risk of privacy issues. Current laws have broadband privacy rules in place that require Internet Service Providers to receive explicit consent from consumers before they can share or sell private information, such […]… Read More

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Understanding the Evolution of Network Security

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Network security has been around almost as long as we’ve had networks, and it is easy to trace the various elements of network security to the components of networking that they try to mitigate. Over the past 30-35 years or so, the expansion of networking, especially the increased reliance on the Internet both as an […]… Read More

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The Six Commandments of the GDPR

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Otherwise known as the measuring stick by which your GDPR compliance will be assessed, the six core principles of the GDPR are the basic foundations upon which the regulation was constructed. Unquestionable and pure in nature, they are rarely acknowledged for one simple reason: five of the six have no real application in helping you […]… Read More

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Celebrating the Pig: How to Engineer a Durable Security Culture

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Dashlane asked this question to over 2,000 people: “Would you give up sex for a year if it meant that you would not have to worry about ever getting hacked or getting your identity stolen?” Over 39 percent of respondents said “yes.” This has got to be a very frustrating response to more security experts […]… Read More

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5 Signs Your Cybersecurity Awareness Program Is Paying Off

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Not too long ago, a client of ours who had just released a dynamic new cybersecurity awareness course told me how blown away he was with the response they were getting. His inbox was full of compliments, and his colleagues wanted to duplicate his training success in their own departments. He recounted how employees stopped […]… Read More

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Scan the Entire RFC 1918 Private IP Space? Are You Crazy? Maybe Not . . .

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The private IP space defined by RFC 1918 contains almost 18 million IP addresses. A customer was interested in having me do host discovery on this entire space for their private IP space. This is interesting data for network owners because it: Increases awareness to the size of the network attack surface, such as the […]… Read More

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Ultra Secret Chat Using Wi-Fi Covert Channel

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“Covert Channel [Wikipedia]: a covert channel is a type of computer security attack that creates a capability to transfer information objects between processes that are not supposed to be allowed to communicate by the computer security policy.” Today, in a world where the hacking techniques are getting more and more sophisticated and security measures are […]… Read More

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The Sackcloth & Ashes of WordPress Security

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This is my first blog in an ongoing “It’s Not Rocket Science” series featuring articles on Information security. “Security is not an absolute, it’s a continuous process and should be managed as such. Security is about risk reduction, not risk elimination, and risk will never be zero. It’s about employing the appropriate security controls that […]… Read More

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5 Lessons Lock Picking Can Teach You About Cyber Security

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Security is a complex and connected web. Though there are many different categories within the all-encompassing field of security, there are still certain lessons that translate across the disciplines. Physical security can largely be seen as a manifestation of the ethereal elements of cyber security. Both the digital and the physical worlds of security rely […]… Read More

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How to Protect Your E-commerce Business from Cyber Attacks

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Just as traditional brick-and-mortar businesses are targeted by anarchists during protests or times of unrest, e-commerce businesses are targeted by cyber criminals, except they don’t wait for particular season or reason. Whether small, medium or large, every business is, sadly, at the mercy of hackers who will exploit every opportunity they get to breach sensitive […]… Read More

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