Not all Insider threats are malicious in nature, some problems are just laziness, incompetence, not paying attention, or just plain mistakes. How does Murphy’s law for Cybersecurity work again? Social engineering is when a someone (usually an evil criminal hacker) tries to trick you by using your good intentions of going about your business … Read more
How can it be that upgrading software and hardware is too hard? Or is it that the reboot is too hard? We don’t actually want to reboot do we? I know some people who deliberately do not reboot their computers until forced to do so by power outage or other dramatic events. Or is it … Read more
I wish I could say that this post would be something new – like buy “xyz” product and perform handstands or something and all your problems are solved. Unfortunately The Equifax breach likely happened due to unpatched systems. As even Equifax itself admitted¹: So as we discuss this problem many times, how can a … Read more
Mr. Business owner/manager if you do not take Cybersecurity seriously then it will bite you but how exactly? Spend money on cybersecurity or you will eventually get attacked… I know that is hard to understand fully As discussed before The Psychology of Security (Oversitesentry post from 8/22/14) Believe it or not on a regular basis … Read more
When we say We need to be more secure in cyberland, does that mean small business needs to change what they do to be more secure? ISACA says we need governance: Governance and management for Enterprise business should use the COBIT 5 principles Principle 1: Meet stakeholder needs Principle 2: Covering the enterprise from end-to-end … Read more