We looked long and hard at firewall options for our clients. Many were just too expensive to make sense for small and medium businesses. Many were more about hype than substance; if they had spent as much on their product as on their videos and marketing material,...
Your corporate insurance broker might have recommended penetration testing, or "Pen Testing", as a cybersecurity strategy for your business. What is "Pen Testing"? To answer that question, think of your computer systems as a large building. Buildings have doorways....
On December 9, cybercriminals began using a newly identified weakness in a commonly used system library called Log4J. You probably haven't heard of Log4J, nor should you. It is a library used to output log files so developers can solve problems. But the real problem...
A Tale of Two Messages I sent out two identical messages that arrived in the receiver's mailbox. The first (the one on the left) ended up in the recipient's Junk E-mail folder. When the recipient opened it using Gmail on an Android phone, they saw a very concerning...
SE Labs is a UK Based independent testing company. Its mission is to help "advance the effectiveness of computer security through innovative, detailed and intelligence-led testing, run with integrity." In early 2021, SE Labs tested 9 "Small Business Endpoint...
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There is an Indian proverb: "Trust grows at the rate of the coconut tree and falls with the speed of the coconut." When meeting for the first time with prospective customers, I always start out by asking them about their business. What's the key things that help them...
Yesterday, May 13, 2021, the Washington DC's Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) reported a massive internal data breach. It was the worst ever ransomware attack on a US police department. Thousands of documents were posted to the dark web on Thursday. Included in...
Star Wars fans recognize this greeting and celebrate it every May 4th. A post-incident assessment of Rogue One's breach of the Galactic Empire's datastore on the planet Scarif was recently conducted. It found a number of critical cyber weaknesses in Imperial Security....