I will be one of the featured presenters at Patrick Boulay’s New Business Minnesota Startup Meetup on Wednesday March 23. The event runs from 3 pm to 5 pm, and there will be open networking following the speakers. You can register for this event on Meetup.
You can check out my article in the January edition of New Business Minnesota, titled Cyber Criminals Put Every Business at Risk here.
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How would you feel if, in order to gain access to a known terrorist’s house, the government passed a law that required every lock manufacturer to create a master key that would unlock every locked door anywhere? What if the police promised that they would only use the key on the one house? What if they promised to keep the key safe and secure so it could never get into the hands ...
A great product for quickly and easily adding web site filtering to your organization is OpenDNS Umbrella. OpenDNS was recently purchased by Cisco Systems. OpenDNS is another featured security product that is part of the Managed Services program here at CIT.
The way OpenDNS works is that all of your traffic to and from the Internet is run through the proxy server cloud at OpenDNS. In addition to protecting your ...
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AV-Test rated Bitdefender Endpoint Security 5.3 the best anti-virus software for Windows client business users in its December 2015 test. I mention this because this is the product that we deploy here at CIT for our managed service customers. They rated a nearly perfect score. Here are the particulars:
Try to imagine how much bad stuff we could keep off our computers and networks if we could figure out a way to filter incoming traffic from the Dark Web. Well maybe we can.
First, my apology in advance to my non-technical followers, this article may be a bit high level for the average user.
A post in Spiceworks from “Born2Frag” ...
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Keith Graham of SecureAuth was recently interviewed for a recent article on TechRepublic, and the subject of adaptive authentication came up. He defined adaptive authentication this way:
Continue Reading →“Adaptive authentication involves evaluating risk around the login process before the user even authenticates so that the system only steps up, or outright denies, the authentication when it deems a logon as a risk. Hence, ...
Here are the 25 most commonly used passwords for 2014. If your password is on this list, please understand that these passwords are among the first tried when automated password cracking software is used by a cyber-criminal. So if yours is here, change it now.
Passwords are becoming problematic for several reasons. The first, IMHO, is the use of email addresses as the user ...
Continue Reading →Thanks to mint.com for the following infographic. Credit card numbers are like social security numbers, different parts of the number tell a story. A credit card number, to be valid, has to conform to something called the Luhn algorithm. Basically, after doing some crazy math, the result needs to be divisible by 10.
The Singularity. Artificial Intelligence. Self-aware, self-actuating, and self-learning robots. What will our future be like when the machines become self-aware? Will it be the like the T-1000 from Terminator? Or more like Johnny 5 from Short Circuit? Or Andrew from Bicentennial Man? Here is a run-down of four different versions of our electronic and digital future.
A recent book by Martin Ford, Rise of Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future, examines a world in the all ...
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If you are in high school (or junior high) or college, attracted to technology, and looking for a career with a future, then you should give serious consideration to the field of Cybersecurity. A recent press release from Cybrary reveals the results of its Cyber Security Job Trends Survey for 2016. Cybrary surveyed 435 senior level technology professionals, and the results indicated a pressing need for more skilled ...