SIX 60 MINUTE CLASSES
Learn something new! Attend one, some or all.
I know many of the other speakers and this looks like a terrific lineup. Block out the day and get some valuable information you can ...
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There are four ways that a typical business user on a Microsoft Outlook/Exchange/Office 365 platform can utilize. While these may not be perfect, and all of them have issues, applying these solutions will help prevent your users for falling victim to phishing emails. These solutions are additive, and each additional solution deployed provides a further layer of protection.
Junk Mail Filter – Outlook comes with a built-in Junk Mail filter that, ...
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Security B-Sides 2017
Sat/Sun, Jun 24-25
Minneapolis Convention Center
1301 Second Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55403
Tickets: $20 cash at the door, starting at 8am
Security B-Sides is Minnesota’s grassroots Security and Technology Conference. This popular and economical event is filled with learning opportunities!!
Keynote Talks
I will be the featured speaker at an event sponsored by First State Bank and Trust of Bayport, MN. The date is Tuesday May 23rd, 2017 from 6:00 pm to 7:15 pm. The location is Phipps Center For the Arts,109 Locust Street, Hudson, WI 54016
Here is the EventBrite link
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There are a number of great frameworks for developing your cybersecurity plan. Two of our favorites are the NIST-CSF and the 20 CIS Controls. We have written about these excellent tools before here (CIS Controls) and here (NIST-CSF).
Back in December we received an email from Pete Herzog of ISECOM about a new, open-source methodology manual for cybersecurity ...
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On of the more hopeful presentations from the Cyber Security Summit was presented by Tony Sager from the Center for Internet Security. Titled “Making Best Practices Common Practices: The CIS Controls,” Tony provided us with a road map for implementing secure practices in our networks.
There are 20 CIS controls. Tony said that implementing the first 5 (20%) would reduce your risk by 80%. ...
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On Wednesday we looked at several of the important takeaways from this year’s Cyber Security Summit. Here are a few more.
A couple of weeks ago I attended the Minneapolis Cyber Security Summit 2016 at the J.W. Marriot Hotel in Bloomington Minnesota. There were two days of presentations on cybersecurity issues, and here are a few of the takeaways for small and medium sized business owners.
NIST has created a self assessment tool for companies and organization who are working through the NIST Cyber Security Framework (NIST-CSF). This tool is called the Baldridge Cybersecurity Excellence Bulder and is designed to help companies implement the principles of the CSF.
According to NIST, organizations can use the Baldrige Cybersecurity Excellence Builder to:
US-CERT sent out an announcement in September about a new video from the FTC for people whose personal information may have been breached in a cyber incident. There are tips on reporting, and how to recover with tools such as a credit freeze or fraud alert. There are many links on both the CERT and the FTC websites to ...