On May 12, 2021, President Biden issued an executive order (EO) on improving the federal government’s approach to cybersecurity. Why should IT professionals care about this document? For one thing, the initiatives outlined in this EO will have impacts to the...
Something I like to say is that it isn’t if you’re ransomware, it’s when. Recently there have been many many ransomware stories in the news, something we’ve been saying for well, a while now. The shocking part is that people are beginning to...
In a previous post, we went through how the Rogue One team was able to get the Death Star plans to the Rebel Alliance, saving countless planets from destruction. But the Empire could have prevented this if they had thought to tighten the security on Scarif, where the...
Ransomware is one of those things that we see in the news constantly, but seem to think will never happen to us. According to Sophos’ The State of Ransomware, 51% of organizations were hit by ransomware last year. Those aren’t very good odds. If you were...
Ransomware attacks are unfortunately one of those things I find myself talking about over and over and over again. I like to say it isn’t a matter of if you get hit by ransomware, but when. Here are five simple tips to help you protect yourself from ransomware...
In February of 2020, Cisco released a multitude of patches related to Cisco CDP vulnerabilities. If you did not already know CDP stands for Cisco Discovery Protocol, and pretty much every Cisco product ever from switches to routers to phones to security cameras uses...
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