Tales From The Road: Keeping a Business Operational After a Ransomware Attack
05.19.20Tips for a fast recovery after a ransomware attack, and how to mitigate the impact of such an attack with improved data backup.
05.19.2005.19.20Author: Bethany Kozal
05.19.20
Tales From The Road: How the landscaper stole all your data
04.22.20How We Compromised a Major Corporate Network During a Physical Pen Test Here’s a “pro tip” for any company out there using armed guards to protect their facility: If you’re not properly segmenting your network, those armed guards can’t do anything to stop an attacker from compromising your company’s private data. We recently conducted a… Read more »
MSP Notice: Increase in Brute Force Attempts
12.10.19Significant Volume of Brute Force Attempts Against Ingress Authentication Sources In the past 72 hours there has been a significant volume of brute force attempts against various ingress authentication sources (like o365 or VPN solutions). We have seen this across all of our customers and that this activity is both typical for this time of… Read more »
What’s in Your [Security] Wallet?
04.11.18No, this blog post isn’t about the credit cards or identity theft. It’s about the tools that, as a security professional, you should keep stored in your “security wallet.” Like any tradecraft, security professionals should have a set of tools, in this case, applications, websites, and resources, that they keep on-hand. These items become your… Read more »
Third-Party Vendor Relationships are Risky Business
03.20.18A version of this blog is also posted on the MIST InfoSec Insider site: https://misti.com/infosec-insider-search. We’re surrounded by networks, many not our own. It’s next to impossible to run a business today without network interconnectivity. Even the smallest mom-and-pop shop has a website and hosting provider that connect to at least one computer holding client… Read more »
October Is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
10.10.16Can you believe it’s already October? We have to wait until the 31st to celebrate Halloween, but October 1st kicked off “National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM)”. National Cybersecurity Alliance, in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security, runs this annual campaign in an effort to “engage and educate public and private sector partners through events… Read more »
Not Being Complacent with Compliancy
10.30.12For those of you that know me, or have heard me speak before at an event, you know then how I like to tell stories to relay messages. One of the stories that I often tell is one about a client that I like to call my Model Client. The story dates back a good ten… Read more »
Security That Works, Even on a Budget – Part 2 – Malware
10.22.12Read part 2 of our “Security on a Budget” series, where we discuss malware and how to secure against it affordably.
