What Am I Doing Wrong?

You may be asking yourself this question.  Cybersecurity seems like a hard thing, and maybe it is.  But there are some easy ways to vastly improve your cybersecurity program that are easy and inexpensive.  If you haven’t started  a cybersecurity program yet, you might just start here.

According to the 2013 Trustwave Global Security Report, the top four mistakes revealed by forensic audits are:

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Speaking At New Business Minnesota Startup Meetup

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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Creator of email dies at age 74

ray-tomlinson-colorWe are to the point now where the men and women who were involved with the beginnings of the Internet are starting to pass away.  Saturday, It was Ray Tomlinson, who invented email.  We was the one who decided to use the @ sign in the email address to separate the user name portion from the domain name portion of the ...

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Why The Government Can’t Be Trusted with Back Doors

backdoorHow 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 ...

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OpenDNS Umbrella – Web Filtering and Security for SMBs

OpenDNSA 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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Bitdefender Rated Best Business AV

bitdefenderAV-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:

  • 100% effective against zero-day malware out of 140 samples used
  • 100% detection of 14,658 pervalent malware samples
  • Bitdefender affected performance negliably, adding ...
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If Only We Could Block Traffic From the Dark Web…

penetration_testTry 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.

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Adaptive Authentication To The Rescue

password1Keith 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:

“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, ...

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