“Oh, an email from Microsoft? That looks important.” Once you’ve opened the email the situation looks even more dire. “My account has been compromised?!” The email presents an easy solution: Microsoft, the ever helpful and friendly company has stopped the malicious actor in their tracks, and only needs you to login to verify your account […]
IT professionals have many loves: cable management, acronyms, mechanical keyboards and buzzwords. Most of the time, your interaction with “IT stuff” comes in the form of buzzwords you hear. I don’t believe many of our readers would know that SCSI is pronounced “scuzzy,” but if I were you ask you about “the cloud” most of […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) created the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) to give businesses foundational structure and common language to address their own individual security needs. As larger businesses invest heavily in cybersecurity, bad guys are turning their focus to small business as they are perceived as easier targets. The NIST CSF is […]
Many of you reading this are probably asking yourselves a similar question: what is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is what is known as cryptocurrency. The concept is a relatively simple one, but the practical implementation is anything but. Essentially, the idea behind cryptocurrency is that it provides an anonymous method of payment for digital transactions. Computers generate […]
IT professionals have many loves: cable management, acronyms, mechanical keyboards and buzzwords. Most of the time, your interaction with “IT stuff” comes in the form of buzzwords you hear. I don’t believe many of our readers would know that SCSI is pronounced “scuzzy,” but if I were you ask you about “the cloud” most of […]
Technology has always been a dynamic market. Traditional focus has moved from a hardware/software to virtualization and the cloud but data has clearly been designated as the true prize and in the unpatrolled world of the Internet, it is up to you to secure it. You can have the fastest car in the lot but […]
“Oh, an email from Microsoft? That looks important.” Once you’ve opened the email the situation looks even more dire. “My account has been compromised?!” The email presents an easy solution: Microsoft, the ever helpful and friendly company has stopped the malicious actor in their tracks, and only needs you to login to verify your account […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) created the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) to give businesses foundational structure and common language to address their own individual security needs. As larger businesses invest heavily in cybersecurity, bad guys are turning their focus to small business as they are perceived as easier targets. The NIST CSF is […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) created the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) to give businesses foundational structure and common language to address their own individual security needs. In our previous article NIST – Achieving Alignment in Cybersecurity we established that some form of cybersecurity posture is necessary to simply do business in today’s environment. […]
In my previous article NIST – Achieving Alignment in Cybersecurity we discussed how the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) created the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) to give businesses foundational structure and common language to address their own individual security needs. We established that some form of cybersecurity posture is necessary to simply do business […]
