Book Coming Soon Cybersecurity for Small businesses

Free Laptop webcam cover with signup to email list* The Book is for small business owners and others which wish to shore up their Cybersecurity Cybersecurity needs to get a “vaccine shot” Currently we have 70% maximum doing right thing Another reason attacks are getting worse We need a new shift in thinking to make … Read more

How About A Cybersecurity Framework By NIST

NIST is the National Institute of Science and Technology and CSF is the Cybersecurity Framework.  There are manypdf’s (v1.1) on this topic, but the changes in versions are not my focus.  Although I did cover this a small bit in a post from 2014: https://oversitesentry.com/cybersecurity-framework-by-nistnational-institute-of-standards-and-technology/ at that point NIST had the major points but not … Read more

Cybersecurity – Where do we go from here?

Let’s list some of the problem areas: Ransomware Phishing Backups – Restore Remote Access Cloud Computing Awareness Issues – Training If you do not prepare for the future then it will create surprises when you least expect it   or the future may make changes in ways that you will not appreciate. An example of this … Read more

Security Psychology – or Risk Gambler?

  The human factor is always underappreciated in helping decide on what can be done with our Computer Security. “Security Mental Model: Cognitive map approach” Tahani Albalawi, Kambiz Ghanzinour and Austin Melton paper: The computer security community has developed formal methods for providing security properties to systems and organizations. However, the human role has often … Read more