There’s no real long-term goal for current security models When you consider current cybersecurity plans, you imagine it in the short term. Proactive architecture for immediate threats with roadmap considerations for, say, the next handful of years. But what about in the next five years? What...
Danger of scam-related crypto markets Several months previous I did a shotgun article discussing the scam-ridden antics of NFTs and general cryptocurrency. For one, crypto is threat-adjacent to ransomware and the go-to for demanded payments. As for NFTs, ever since their inception, they’ve been swarmed by...
Fred just quit unexpectedly! Now you’ve got to find a replacement. While you’re looking for someone to fill his position, it hasn’t yet dawned on you that Fred has a LOT of company data on his devices. He also still has access to some of his...
We rarely leave our smartphones, tablets, and laptops at home when we go on a trip. 74% of people get anxious about leaving their phones home when they go out anywhere, even to the grocery store. How are you going to post all those rad vaca shots...
Ransomware gang REvil creeping back in I’ve covered the happenings of REvil for a long while now, as the four readers out there may already know. With recent events, I've jumped back into the recent happenings concerning REvil. Back in October 2021, their operations took a...
Don’t ignore internal security evaluations In today’s climate of expanding attack surfaces and threats, preparing for them is essential for long-term IT health. An enterprise will take several steps to strengthen its security layer, and one way of doing such is with a security risk assessment....
CISA order to address VMware security threat CISA has been in the process of releasing guidelines for critical infrastructure networks. However, in mid-May 2022, a new emergency directive was issued. The directive is aimed at five specific VMware-based services, as CISA determines they are “unacceptable federal risk.” The...
Phishing is the number one method of attack delivery for everything from ransomware to credential theft. We are very aware of it coming by email, but other types of phishing have been growing rapidly. In recent years, phishing over social media has skyrocketed by 500%. There...
One area of cloud computing that is used widely, but often isn’t as flashy as the software side is cloud storage. Storing files in the cloud to make them easily accessible and shareable from anywhere was one of the very first uses of the cloud...
An unfair reality faces the modern small business: they’re outmatched and outgunned by enterprise-level IT/cybersecurity. That is to say, in a climate where the need for comprehensive IT and cybersec solutions is stronger than ever, SMBs are left struggling. By no fault of their own, SMBs...