What Your MSP Doesn’t Know, Can Hurt You
18th November 2021
Last month, I flew down to Florida with my parents, brother, and our respective wives, to attend my cousin’s wedding. The trip down was uneventful and the wedding was terrific. But as the weekend was coming to a close, it occurred to me that I had not come up with any good stories for my…
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AWS CISO Stephen Schmidt and his “Cybersecurity Airbag” defense tools.
11th November 2021
AWS CISO Stephen Schmidt is a man that thousands of modern businesses should be paying attention to, but are likely not. He’s the Chief Information Security Officer of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the platform that untold thousands companies have built their core products on. When your business is so tightly linked to another company’s service,…
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Why you should use a Cloud Backup Service.
4th November 2021
Meet Tim. Tim is the head data security manager at a reasonably sized tech company and is responsible for managing hundreds of gigabytes of data every day. This data includes client analytics, supply chain management information, operational cost, business emails, essentially every piece of information that is critical to your business infrastructure. Knowing how important…
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Communicate Better with the Organizational Security Maturity Model
28th October 2021
Use the Organizational Security Maturity Model as a guide for meaningful discussions with your executive team and Board of Directors. Start with the embodied concepts to paint the bigger picture, then fill in details with the six key talking points to help leadership understand where the organization as a whole is now, and where they need it to be. Use the simplified version to keep maturity concepts fresh as you give the executive team and Board updates.
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Don’t Mess with your DNS!
21st October 2021
Plumbing is great when it works happily in the background. When it doesn’t, you better have someone like Kumar on speed dial. The same can be said for DNS (Domain Name System), the directory that tells Internet infrastructure how to route traffic.
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How to create an AWS Sandbox for your business.
14th October 2021
When I was a kid, my dad built a sandbox in the backyard for my brother and me to play in. We used it for a lot of things, like devising desert combat strategies for our green army men, and then finding creative ways to sacrifice them to our Return of the Jedi sand pit…
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How SOC as a Service can help Sarah in Operations
7th October 2021
Sarah in Operations has had a rough go of things lately. The new email gateway and security monitoring systems are doing a great job at catching threats and alerting her to problems. Except that they’re almost doing their job too well – there are far too many new alerts and tasks for her to keep…
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Plan now for a cyber attack… on your vendors!
15th September 2021
Were it an actual word (it isn’t), I would be known as an “audiobookaphile.” That is, someone who is enthusiastic about audiobooks. I listen to them a lot. I listen while driving, while shaving, while grocery shopping, and while doing things around the house. I even listen to them when my wife is adding things…
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