Does Outsourcing Make You More Secure?

Outsourcing is good, since we cannot specialize in everything we can focus on sales or inventory instead of mundane tasks. So what is important and what is mundane? That depends on your business…  most businesses are not a software company, so obtaining software needs by outsourcing may be smart.  Then the question is should you … Read more

Unknown Risks: Possible to Gauge?

Does the definition of unknown make measuring  risk also unknown? Let’s assume a cloud account has been created on Amazon Cloud(AWS – Amazon Web Services)  or elsewhere (Rackspace, Azure, or Google cloud) This cloud account will always be the Achilles heel of your Internet presence.  I.e. if someone gets a hold of he main account … Read more

Is There Cyber Risk? How to Assess Risk?

An interesting video from RSA Conference 2018: “There’s no such Thing as a Cyber-risk” So if you look at possible risk domains  Computer Security (or Cybersecurity is not on there. Operations: errors – fraud – talent – employee engagement – safety Service Availability: capacity, resiliency, data integrity, intentional disruption Product delivery: pre-executions – release executions … Read more

100% Cybersecurity is Impossible

Do you want to use the Internet? Computers? Tablets? Cellphones? There is no device created that is 100% secure with no risk. So now what? Risk management – is what we are supposed to do, where the risk of using something is lower than the value of using it. For example: using a computer for … Read more

Why Is It Cybersecurity Pros Make It Complicated?

We say things like: DO NOT CLICK ON Phishing emails!! But then Equifax creates www.experianidentityservice.co.uk ???  or creditexpert.co.uk/login/login Bsides in London earlier this year had a presentation by Meadow Ellis (@notameadow). Meadow makes a good point, as we as Cybersecurity professionals ask users to be careful what you click, and then  somebody in the company … Read more