February 16, 2021
CYBERSECURITY IN 2020: LANDSCAPE, RANSOMWARE, AND KEEPING DATA SAFE
It’s difficult to find an industry that escaped the COVID-19 pandemic unabated. Many sectors were forced to drastically adapt on the fly to keep their companies profitable while prioritizing their employees’ safety. This led to a mass shift to working from home, which opened the door for cyberattacks on large and small businesses. For example, […]
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October 09, 2020
Cybersecurity Fundamentals: 5 Key Ways to Keep Hackers Out
With all the changes to organizational work-life and the increasing exposure to risks, you can never be too careful with your cybersecurity processes. When it comes to keeping your data and sensitive information safe, a reminder of some security fundamentals for risk mitigation is always in order as we can sometimes lose site of the […]
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August 25, 2020
Secure Remote Access: Empower Workforces & Protect Networks
The need for secure remote access continues to grow as we still battle the impact of Covid-19 on business operations. Without a real end in sight, we can no longer rely on our rapidly deployed solutions as long-term options without re-evaluating our security posture. When this unprecedented pandemic occurred, businesses had to adapt quickly to sustain operations. […]
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May 26, 2020
Managed Detection and Response
Network security solutions for most organizations, if we’re being honest, tend to look like my medicine cabinet. Full of vitamins, minerals, and supplements, but as soon as I get a headache, I can’t find the aspirin. Network security looks similar for most companies. The focus primarily stays on preventative measures and technologies rather than expanding […]
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March 04, 2020
Technological Impacts of Coronavirus: Is Your Environment Prepared?
You have probably heard of this interesting virus affecting people in other countries. However, have you considered the organizational impact Coronavirus may already have on your business today? What about when, not if, it proliferates in the United States? All major publications and news outlets – the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, […]
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October 25, 2019
Teachable Moments in IT
An article caught my eye this week. It involves the unfortunate circumstances in the city of Baltimore, but it’s a valuable lesson to any organization (link below). In short, a combination of ransomware and poorly managed backups wreaked havoc on the City of Baltimore. The unfortunate situation is a good reminder of how the best […]
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August 02, 2019
Avoiding the Capital One Breach: Defense in Depth
With the release of the criminal complaint in the recent Capital one breach we now have a better understanding of how Paige A. Thompson exfiltrated data from their cloud vendor. We don’t know all the details and can only make inferences based upon the information available. Deploying CloudGuard on AWSCase Study The complaint states that a GitHub file was […]
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July 30, 2019
VxWorks Vulnerabilities: More Exposure Than You Think
Six of the URGENT/11 bugs can be exploited to achieve remote code execution (RCE). At least one bug affects each version of the OS starting with 6.5, while others can lead to a denial of service (DoS) attack. Well, while this is something you may not have heard of it is the real time operating system […]
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July 23, 2019
Your Password Policy Should Challenge Hackers, Not Your Users
Any time a human is involved, the potential for weakened security increases. Password policies are necessary for cybersecurity compliance; however, burdensome password policies can result in bad user behavior like password transformation. SUBSCRIBE TO SAYERS BLOG REMEMBER WHEN – IBM published the startling statistic that human error was found to be involved in 95% of all security incidents in “2014 Cyber […]
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