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Sending cybersecurity work offshore isn’t just a bad idea for individual organizations; it can be a security issue. Facing a severe shortage of qualified cybersecurity workers—the InfoSec unemployment rate is expected to be zero until at least 2021—ma… Continue reading The Danger in Outsourcing Cybersecurity to Foreign-Based Firms
In a sense, getting stung can be the key to taking notice — and maybe that’s a blessing in disguise. IT security is a topic often seen as solely the IT department’s concern. For management, the means taken to protect the compan… Continue reading What lessons can companies learn from getting breached?
Brute-force attacks can be IT security provider nightmares. Automated software allows would-be data thieves to make consecutive guesses–millions in just seconds–and, through trial and error, crack into passwords and other encrypted data. What can you … Continue reading Brute-Force Attacks: Fight Back with Education, Remote Support
Information security continues to challenge both large and small institutions alike. According to EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit association of IT leaders in higher education, information security remains the #1 issue in 2018 for the third year in a row. P… Continue reading Cybersecurity advice for Higher Education
I published an article today on the Oracle Cloud Security blog that takes a look at how approaches to information security must adapt to address the needs of the future state (of IT). For some organizations, it’s really the current state. But, I like t… Continue reading New World, New Rules: Securing the Future State
Sometimes the challenge with data breaches is to know they ever happened at all. Take these examples from the 2017 headlines: Company Breach Discovered Breach Occurred Verifone January 2017 mid-2016 Brooks Brothers May 2017 April 2016 – March 201… Continue reading How are Data Breaches Detected
Year over year, the same industry verticals seem to remain at the top of just about every analyst briefing, industry report, and infographic that are about security, threats, and attacks. Commonly, you repeatedly see Retail, Finance, Healthcare, a… Continue reading Why is the Education Sector a Target for Cyberattack?
In 2017, the IT community was primarily focused on mitigating external threats, such as cloud hacks and state-sponsored cyberattacks. However, many of this year’s data breaches—notably Equifax and Anthemwere actually the result of insider misuse or hum… Continue reading The Top 5 IT Security Trends for 2018
The ability to collect, manage and analyze logs of login events has always been a good source of troubleshooting and diagnostic information. Logons are the one common activity across nearly all attack patterns. They provide one of the clearest indicato… Continue reading Active Directory User Login History – Audit all Successful and Failed Logon Attempts
A few days ago, a news story broke saying that many of the UK’s political leaders have been publicly (and almost proudly) proclaiming their own particularly poor passwords habits on Twitter. MP Nadine Dorries admits she regularly shouts the quest… Continue reading UK politician password-sharing — maybe the security industry has been giving out the wrong advice?