Free Cybersecurity Training: Good, but not Great.
24th November 2020
An employee at a company gets an email that looks like it’s from their boss, asking them to open a link or download an attachment for a project. The employee performs the task as requested, only to later discover their account was compromised! This employee was the victim of a social engineering phishing attack, where…
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Three Keys to a Great Internal Audit
19th November 2020
I don’t remember much about middle school. It was the 80s, though, and things were certainly different back then. We had real chalk boards (with erasers that needed periodic clapping), gender-separated gym classes, and junk food and soda in the vending machines. One memory, in particular, has stayed with me. It happened in science class…
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Password Hints: Could your ex guess your password?
12th November 2020
The first passwords I used as a kid all featured my first and favorite Pokémon, Mudkip. Sometimes I would include a number (mudkip96), or a number, uppercase, and a special character (Mudkip96!), but the passwords all featured my favorite fictional axolotl nonetheless. It was easy to remember and if I ever did forget, the password…
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Announcing the First vCISO Cybersecurity Scholarship Winner!
10th November 2020
UPDATE (January 2021): The information presented in this article is out-of-date for the round of scholarship applications taking place in 2021. For up-to-date information on the scholarship, please visit this page. The original article appears unaltered below. ~~~ The world gets a little more digital every day, opening more and more cyber vulnerabilities for bad…
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How to be a CSA STAR
5th November 2020
Cybersecurity standards, certifications, and frameworks read like so much alphabet soup: AICPA TSP SOC 2, CSA STAR, ISO/IEC 27001, NIST SP 800-53. What does it all mean? Is my food trying to tell me something? There are so many options with so many messy acronyms, it’s hard to keep track of them, remember what they…
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