Cybersecurity Blog

Cybersecurity Keynote Speakers are in High Demand Cybersecurity is a critical issue for businesses and organizations of all sizes and industries and it is more important than ever to stay informed and educated on the latest threats and best practices for protecting sensitive information. One of the best ways to do this is by attending conferences and events where top...

Bad day for nation-state election meddling is a good day for voters Regardless of your political bent, today is a good day for democratic elections. No significant cyberattacks on the U.S. midterm elections materialized. Cybersecurity experts, government officials and local and national election offices were well prepared to defend the vote from cyber intrusions in the 2022 midterms. As a...

Security Awareness Training that Won't Put Your Peeps Asleep National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which takes place every year in October, is a lot like spring cleaning. It’s when we buckle down and finally get to that pile of papers we’ve been staring at all year. It's also when we learn to build new systems that prevent the pileup in the...

After the supreme court overturned Roe vs. Wade on June 24th, 2022, politics and privacy were turned upside down overnight. Politics aside, there are serious privacy implications as a result of the decision to end women’s constitutional right to abortion. Tech companies are at the forefront of making critical privacy decisions that could have legal, social, and political consequences no...

Would you send your newly licensed 16-year-old out to drive on the interstate without spending months teaching them safety skills and the rules of the road? I hope not! Even if their car had all of the latest safety technology - front and side airbags, auto-locking seatbelts, crash-warning sensors - and a low-deductible insurance policy, you still wouldn't take the...

Your remote workforce is only as strong as its weakest link — which, believe it or not, may be a public WiFi hotspot. Insecure networks have been at the forefront of a recent spike in business-impacting cyber attacks, namely among organizations that have deployed a remote workforce who accessed malicious WiFi networks or hacker-enabled hotspots. Have we become so dependent...

Every company is vulnerable to cyber attack — and I mean every company, small and large. Are you responsible for delivering half of the East Coast’s fuel supply? Vulnerable. Are you the largest beef supplier in the world? Yep, still vulnerable. The alarming surge in ransomware attacks has put a target on every company’s back, including massive organizations like Colonial...

Apple App Tracking Transparency is Finally Here! With the release of iOS 14.5, Apple has given us the most powerful privacy tool for users in many years - it's called App Tracking Transparency (ATT). The update also includes a lot of features that have Apple product users very excited, like new Siri voices and being able to open your iPhone...

Summary of the SolarWinds Hack Russian hackers inserted malicious code into a ubiquitous piece of network-management software (SolarWinds and other companies) used by a majority of governmental agencies, Fortune 500 companies and many cloud providers. The software potentially gives Russia an all-access pass into the data of breached organizations and their customers. Immediate Steps to Protect Your Network I would...

WhatsApp Privacy: Facebook's New "Data Use" Policy I have been getting a ton of questions on the privacy of your personal data that is sent through WhatsApp. Is Facebook, who owns WhatsApp, sharing everything you write, including all of your contacts, messages and behaviors? It’s not quite that simple, but neither is Facebook. Facebook announced a new WhatsApp privacy policy...