12-Sep-2019
Checking reviews is a good start but there’s more to it. Not knowing the perspective of the review writer, a decision solely based or reviews would be erroneous. Since everyone has a different need, a purchase based on reviews may not satisfy certain specific needs ...
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Shortage of CyberSecurity professionals may be crippling! What can companies do until supply meets demand? For several years now, I have heard dozens of CyberSecurity expert speakers bemoan the fact that there simply are not enough professionals in the market with the needed CyberSecurity skills to meet the ever-increasing demand. Unfortunately this problem is not new and we may not see ...
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Are weak passwords putting your business at risk? Verizon recently released a startling study claiming that 63% of all data breaches resulted from weak or stolen passwords. There are endless flaws in passwords that greatly increase the risk of being hacked yet so many organizations fail to take recommended measures to keep their systems safe. While it stands to reason ...
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Who do you think may be the weakest link in the Cyber Security chain?… It could be you! Surprised, don’t be. At some point in everyone’s career we may all have been subject to a deception of some sort. In the Cyber Security world we refer to this personal deception as “Social Engineering”. Simply put, we are trusting and the ...
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If you are a government sub-contractor and not NIST 800-171 compliant by the end of 2017, you are at risk of losing your federal business. In 2015, the federal government issued the NIST 800-171 set of required standards. They require all entities who do business as subcontractors on any federal project to be fully compliant by the end of 2017 ...
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New vicious ransomware attack: You are NOT safe…let me repeat, this threat is looming over this country! Well the “bad guys” are at it again, and frankly there is no end in sight to threats putting our critical IT systems and infrastructure at risk. The Petya, or as some call it the Petwrap, ransomware virus is spreading at lightning speed across the globe. So far ...
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