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24th November 2020

Free Cybersecurity Training: Good, but not Great.

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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Student dropping a mercury thermometer in front of a teacher.
19th November 2020

Three Keys to a Great Internal Audit

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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Mac OS change password box. Password hint field reads "What is your cat's name?"
12th November 2020

Password Hints: Could your ex guess your password?

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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10th November 2020

Announcing the First vCISO Cybersecurity Scholarship Winner!

UPDATE (January 2021): The information presented in this article is out-of-date for the round of scholarship applications taking place in 2021.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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Bowl of alphabet soup with letters reading CSA STAR and other security standards
5th November 2020

How to be a CSA STAR

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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