How Secure Are Your Employees’ Home Networks?
21st May 2020
Everyone: “Rob, why don’t you deposit checks from your phone?” Me, Pre-Pandemic: “Use the app on my phone? Are you crazy? The bank is right around the corner. It’s so easy to deposit checks there. If my phone were stolen, the attacker would have a leg up on getting my banking information. I feel safer at the bank.”…
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Starting your cybersecurity program
20th May 2020
How do you get your cybersecurity program started? We know of a lot of mid-sized companies that struggle with getting their cybersecurity program going. Before you hire cybersecurity experts there is significant progress that an organization can make on its own. Don’t believe me? Even when you hire an expert, you will need a team…
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FCISO
18th May 2020
Why when you search for FCISO doesn’t the Fractional CISO website come up? I’ll tell you why… Up until this point, we haven’t cared about the FCISO search term. However, now we are going to start using #FCISO for our LinkedIn hashtag so we do care about it. Fractional CISO provides FCISO services to its…
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How to set up Threat Intelligence via Slack for Free
14th May 2020
Are you finding it hard to keep up with new major cybersecurity vulnerabilities that could affect your environment? Unless cybersecurity is your full-time job, you’re probably not spending a lot of time wading through blog posts and listening to hours of podcasts just to keep up with every breaking story. Most of us really just…
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How to Gamify Your Incident Response Planning (And Make It Fun)
7th May 2020
Zombies are attacking the perimeter. They’ve made it past the outer defense wall and are trying to breach the inner wall. You’ve bolstered your gateway defenses, but the flood of zombies found a weakness. Their attack breaks through. What do you do? Roll for initiative. No, this isn’t one of those Dungeons and Dragons articles or…
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Correct Horse Battery Staple Review – Password Advice
1st May 2020
The “Correct Horse Battery Staple” piece at xkcd is still so popular! I guess if you want something to live on then make a comic about it… In the comic, you have an example of the type of password that we’ve been taught to create by IT systems over the past couple of decades (Tr0ub4dor&3)….
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