From the Department of Homeland Security website: “October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month which is an annual campaign to raise awareness about cybersecurity. We live in a world that is more connected than ever before. The Internet touches almost all aspects of everyone’s daily life, whether we realize it or not. National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) is designed to engage and educate public and private sector partners through events and ...
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You don’t need to be a journalist, freedom fighter, or living under an oppressive political regime to have the desire for some online privacy. Maybe you are trying to put the contents of your life back into the Pandora’s box you opened when you signed up on Facebook. Maybe you would like a little privacy in your online life.
Until recently most cybersecurity efforts focused on prevention, and this created the anti-malware software, firewall and perimeter defense industries. But the fact of the matter is that cyber-attackers are going fly right past your perimeter defense and get into your network via port 80 or 110, firewall ports that are open on every network for email and web browsing. our recommendation is to start managing the consequences of the inevitable security breach. ...
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