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UPDATE (January 2021): The information presented in this article is out-of-date for the round of scholarship applications taking place in 2021.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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When SIMPLE Simply Isn’t
15th October 2020
Our company is growing. Last year at this time, we were, collectively, three humans and two plants. Today, we are five humans, four plants, and a dog, and are in search of two more humans (and maybe some cats). And so I sat down last month with Jon Bicknell, our terrific financial planner, to help…
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My Fintech Cybersecurity Journey – Out of the Bubble
30th September 2020
I’ll admit it – when I joined Fractional CISO earlier this year, I had no idea what it would really be like as a Virtual CISO. I knew that my new position — providing cybersecurity leadership to clients across all sorts of industries — would be very different than my previous eight years as a…
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Elon Musk: Cybersecurity’s Iron Man
17th September 2020
Earlier this week, while taking a break from home schooling (don’t ask), I happened to be browsing a list of the world’s billionaires. You can probably guess who’s leading the pack – Bezos, Gates and Zuckerberg, of course. But did you know that Tesla founder, Elon Musk, is consistently among the top five? I have…
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Pro Tip: Google Vault
25th August 2020
If you are a G Suite user and are concerned that important documents could accidentally be deleted or significantly edited, you’ll want to use Google Vault. Unlike Google Drive, which doesn’t protect against mass deletions or edits, Google Vault does! Set up is easy and it adds a layer of protection for your business-critical data. (Note that we…
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Three Lessons From the Garmin Ransomware
20th August 2020
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…
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COVID and Cyber Hygiene: Not That Different
16th July 2020
“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…
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How Do You Pronounce CISO?
15th July 2020
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…
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