Cybersecurity often shares many comparisons to military and borrows many concepts and terminology from the forces. For example, the Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain is borrowed from a military concept related to the structure of an attack consisting of target...
Do you secure your lawn? No, I don’t mean from the likes of “Dennis the Menace”, and hopefully you’ve never uttered the phrase “you darn kids get off my lawn!” But believe it or not, there are some similarities between caring for your lawn and cybersecurity....
Throughout life we are all given words of wisdom and advice that's intended to make our lives easier than our forefathers. Things like “work smarter, not harder”, “eat your vegetables”, “win or lose, try your best” and so on. One of my favorites that I was taught was...
Thanks to the recent Colonial Pipeline and JBS cyberattacks (and their subsequent impacts), you’re probably encountering the term ransomware more than you used to and it’s not hard to see why – the number of successful ransomware attacks is rising dramatically. The...
Claiming that the works of 16th century playwright could have anything to say about 21st century cyberthreats sounds ludicrous. But hear us out – Shakespeare’s play Henry V can teach us a thing or two about preventing email breaches. Consider Kenneth Branagh’s 1989...
As we kickoff a new year of 2021 and begin marching towards this year’s goals and objectives for success, I wanted to share thoughts and feedback around the ever-growing elephant in the room called cybersecurity. It has been a challenge for small businesses for many...
Gartner defines a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) as one that provides outsourced monitoring and management of security devices and systems. These security devices and systems may be one of many point solutions that offer features for firewall management,...
If you are a fan of Star Wars, Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman, motorcycles, or technology in general, I would highly recommend the new Apple TV series entitled 'Long Way Up'. This is a chronicled journey of two friends, Ewan and Charley, starting at the Southernmost...
It seems like no matter which direction you turn these days, the news includes headlines such as “huge ransomware attack”, or “massive data breach”, or “new regulations being enforced”. As if owning and running a business wasn’t challenging enough, you must now...