July 2021 - Fractional CISO

27th July 2021

Congrats to Alexia Antoine! 2021 vCISO Cybersecurity Scholarship Recipient

Congratulations to Alexia Antoine of Texas on being awarded Fractional CISO’s 2021 vCISO Cybersecurity Scholarship! Read her cybersecurity journey in her own words here.

21st July 2021

Allowlist and blocklist are better terms for everyone, let’s use them.

Goodbye whitelist and blacklist, hello allowlist and blocklist! The problem with whitelist and blacklist. Whitelist and blacklist are a pair of very important tools and terms for cybersecurity. So it’s kind of a bummer that they’re bad. Why? Mostly because the terms aren’t nearly as clear as they could be. Whitelists and blacklists control who…

15th July 2021

Are You Taking on More Risk Than Necessary?

What a bakery stuck in the 1980s can tell us about approaching cybersecurity risk in the 2020s.

8th July 2021

Microsoft Office 365 email security defaults are bad, so fix them!

An email server with weak security settings is like a castle without a wall. The bad guys will walk right in! Unfortunately, Microsoft Office 365 email security leaves much to be desired. Frankly, their default settings are horrible! Email security is important because it is the most common attack vector for attackers looking to gain…

1st July 2021

All Businesses Need DDoS Protection

“I think someone is trying to put me out of business.” I recently received this message from a small business owner providing a cloud service. During their peak hours, someone was launching a DDoS attack against their servers, bringing their service to a halt. With the business’s customers experiencing service interruptions, they were thinking about…