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20th August 2020

Three Lessons From the Garmin Ransomware

Maybe you were wondering a couple of weeks ago, why your super-fit, never-misses-a-day-of-exercise neighbor had suddenly stopped leaving the house for his morning run. Had he finally decided to join the rest of us in late-night Netflix binging and unchecked consumption of Ben and Jerry’s Chubby-Hubby ice cream? Sadly, no. He stopped running, temporarily, because Garmin — the…

16th July 2020

COVID and Cyber Hygiene: Not That Different

“We are doing a good job with social distancing. We stay inside a bubble.” I’ve heard this kind of thing from many friends and neighbors recently regarding their COVID behavior. But I’m not exactly buying it. For many, the “bubble” — the small group of close friends and relatives we have each chosen to interact with freely…

15th July 2020

How Do You Pronounce CISO?

One of my clients pronounces it SIS-so. Another one spells out C-I-S-O. That got me thinking: why do I pronounce CISO, SEE-so? But before I answer that question, what exactly is a CISO and how can it benefit your organization? What Is a CISO? A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is a business leader focused…

13th July 2020

Fintech Virtual CISO Case Study

A North Carolina-based Fintech Provider needed to improve its cybersecurity. Find out how Fractional CISO helped them in our newly published case study! https://fractionalciso.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Fractional-CISO-Fintech-Virtual-CISO-Case-Study-July-2020.pdf To learn more about our Fintech Virtual CISO program check out this link.

1st July 2020

WhatsApp vs Signal vs Telegram Security in 2020

Have you ever been creeped out by an advertisement showing up in your social media feed about a product you recently mentioned in a chat? Not long ago, I was chatting with a friend on Facebook Messenger about which wireless earbuds to buy. Didn’t Google it. Didn’t say it out loud. Just casually discussed it…

23rd June 2020

Pro Tip: Exercise Caution with G Suite Marketplace Apps

G Suite Marketplace Apps are “applications that can be added to an entire domain or to individual G Suite accounts.” They integrate with the Admin console and make it easy to complete common tasks (mail merges, form publishing, password management, etc.) or connect to frequently used apps like Dropbox or Zoom. And, they have a…

18th June 2020

Managing Supply Chain Havoc

I have been an Amazon customer since 1999 and a Prime member for over a decade. Until recently, I have been pleased — thrilled, on occasion — by Amazon’s ability to deliver (literally) on its promise of fast and reliable service. Lately, however, and even though I continue to pay for two-day shipping through Prime, most things I have…

21st May 2020

How Secure Are Your Employees’ Home Networks?

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.”…

20th May 2020

Starting your cybersecurity program

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…

18th May 2020

FCISO

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…

14th May 2020

How to set up Threat Intelligence via Slack for Free

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…

7th May 2020

How to Gamify Your Incident Response Planning (And Make It Fun)

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…

1st May 2020

Correct Horse Battery Staple Review – Password Advice

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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