Overview of Cybersecurity challenges : David Kennedy is in the above youtube video first 25 min and he has a good overview of where we are in Cybersecurity, a single employee can take down your company. It is not just the technical details, but also includes people learning best practices to defend from hacking … Read more
Why discuss backups and Disaster Recovery on a Cybersecurity topic? Because what is the worst thing that can happen to your computer data? Oh yes ransomware will encrypt data and the only way to unencrypt is to pay the criminals. Of course there is no guarantee that after you pay the criminals the unencryption will … Read more
The FUD techniques are certain to come up again and again as they are effective (to a degree). FUD is a marketing technique to sow fear into cost conscious customers that are thinking of going to a competitor. Pushing safety in numbers and other uncertainty creates FUD in the mind of potential customers. Thus it … Read more
There seem to be a few posts doing a bit of reflection: Internet Storm Center: “An occasional Look in the Rear View Mirror”, discusses that every so often look into what you can do to see if anything can be retired. At year end we look over the year and look into next year for … Read more
So what to make of the OneLogin Security Incident? So what to do when even the “experts” get hacked and potentially have lost confidence and your data. Unfortunately in this case it is usernames and passwords (potentially), as it is not obvious what was removed or accessed, as a lot of data is encrypted at … Read more