by Terry Crowley | Jan 17, 2018 | InfoSec Strategies
As organizations of all sizes flock to public cloud environments like Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure, an incredible number (one report says up to 40%!) are failing to close the proverbial door behind them—and leaving huge volumes of sensitive data exposed to public...
by Jeremy Sporn | Sep 22, 2017 | InfoSec Strategies
What Happened? We now know the Equifax data breach, which impacts almost 60% of the US adult population, was preceded by another breach or series of breaches of unknown magnitude back in March. We also know the July mega breach exploited a flaw in third-party code...
by Jeremy Sporn | Jul 21, 2017 | InfoSec Strategies
The single most critical and effective measure for reducing cyber security risk is a robust patch management program that allows you to quickly and efficiently apply vendors’ software patches. Known vulnerabilities are a hacker’s favorite attack points, and many of...
by Jeremy Sporn | Jul 5, 2017 | Phishing
According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) 2016 Internet Crime Report, CEO fraud that spoofs senior executives ranks among the most prevalent and costly of all cyber attacks reported by businesses and individuals. Such crimes rose a staggering 270%...
by Chris Dorr | May 9, 2017 | Third Party Risk Management
As hacker monikers go, TheDarkOverlord (TDO) picked a pretty catchy one. Not much is known about this hacker yet (not even whether it’s an individual or a group, but I’m guessing the latter), but we do know a few things. They know what they’re doing. They’re an...
