Improve Cybersecurity – Let’s Teach More Infosec

We want to help the Cybersecurity labor shortage – What is the fastest way to teach more cyber aware people? It will require everyone to think a different way. learn the process of the hackers… (SVAPE&C)   http://www.fixvirus.com/svapec/   A specific regimen of educating yourself. Which certificate do you study and complete for? When a career … Read more

More Sophisticated Attacks = We Must UP CyberSecurity

This is the problem in all of these stories – somehow the client computer was infected. (how can we stop it in the best manner possible)?   There are plenty of stories streaming of the sophisticated nature of the Cyber criminals: http://www.csoonline.com/article/2892442/malware-cybercrime/the-cybercrime-economy-personified.html “The ready availability of free cybercrime applications invites participation in the cybercrime economy … Read more

Is Your Cyber Risk Manageable?

Have you done everything you could to manage the level of risk that you need to have? On Feb 4th I said  Risk Management failed us: http://oversitesentry.com/risk-management-does-not-work/ So how can I  help you understand the new level of cyber risk today? In the past it was good enough to run a firewall (which keeps out most … Read more

Block All Traffic From China improves your Defense

What if you could block all China originating traffic? As you see there was a Forbes Internet attack survey done for Q2 2014. China  was the top source of attack traffic (43% of global Internet attack traffic).  Image reference Link: http://www.statista.com/chart/2801/china-is-the-worlds-top-source-of-internet-attack-traffic/ . What if you could just block all this traffic? How could you do it? It … Read more

Federal Laws May Affect Cybersecurity Legal

Security Magazine has the story: http://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/86057-understanding-the-new-federal-cyber-laws The CEA(Cybersecurity Enhancement Act 2014) is the most significant of the December bills both in breadth and likely in significance. Where NIST(National Institute of Standards and Technology) has setup a Cybersecurity framework which is very flexible for companies to follow.  NIST Feb 12,2014 Cybersecurity Framework document. The interesting paragraph … Read more