Phishing scams related to COVID-19 were everywhere last year. Fortunately, those have dropped off significantly in...
Cyber Security
Watch for These Emotional Triggers in Phishing Messages
I received a note last week from Marco Van den Berg, CIO of the International Rice Research Institute. Marco had read...
Protect Your Organization Against These Common Phishing Attacks
Phishing. Yeah, we get it. We're supposed to educate our users on phishing attacks and how to prevent them. Today I'm...
Tune Azure MFA to Balance Security and User Experience
It is useful to remember that you can overcome objections to change if you understand how that change makes people...
How to Respond to the Kaseya Ransomware Attack
By now you have no doubt heard about the Kaseya ransomware attack. And you want to know: does it affect my...
Mobile Security is a Bigger Threat than Ever
According to the security software specialists at CheckPoint, mobile security has become a huge problem over the past...
Know Your Enemy: The State of Ransomware in 2021
I recently came across a report from the security firm Sophos, describing the state of ransomware in 2021. Here is a...
Manage Cybersecurity for What It Is: A Risk Problem
I read a Forbes article today with an interesting message: manage cybersecurity the way you would manage risk. I could...
5 Security Strategies for the New Hybrid Workplace
Businesses have had to make massive adjustments to the way they function over the past year. And the pandemic has most...
3 New Advanced Phishing Attacks to Look Out For
My colleagues and I have written about various phishing techniques over the past couple of years, and the clues to...
Make Your Security Policies Work for You
Do your security policies work for you? Or do you have a love-hate relationship with them? As in, people love to hate...
Patch Your Exchange Server Now. But Don’t Stop There.
As luck would have it, I was putting together a proposal last week to help a non-profit. The organization was coming...
Say Goodbye to Passwords With Microsoft’s Zero Trust Strategy
Well, we’ve survived a year in a pandemic and we’ve had to adapt the way we work in significant ways. At the same...
Investigate and Remediate Threats with Zero Trust
Congratulations! We have made it to the top of our Zero Trust stack. Today I am going to cover the steps you can take...
Secure Your Network with Zero Trust
We are closing in on the end of our Zero Trust journey. (For some of you, that cannot happen soon enough!) In this...
Use Zero Trust to Secure Your Infrastructure
Secure your infrastructure. If you have been reading my posts on installing a Zero Trust security framework… Thank...
Five Best Practices for Cloud Security
Cybersecurity practices for organizations using the cloud should be implemented differently than for those who do not....
More on Securing Your Phone
We wrote a post back in 2018 (seems like forever ago!) on securing your phone while traveling abroad (remember...