OR Offline, No One Can Hear You Scream The Cloud! How convenient! Our email and files are always available, 100% of the time. The lowered costs of Dedicated Internet Access has afforded even small businesses redundant Internet connections from a phone carrier, cable company, wireless provider, or satellite. But what would happen to business and society as a […]
Read MoreOR My Other Car is a Police Call Box This three-part series covers the basics of cybersecurity for three different user levels. The final entry speaks to the administrators, the technical gurus that keep data flowing and businesses running. What wisdom can possibly be imparted upon such tech heads that they don’t already know? There is always more […]
Read MoreOR Grandma’s Got a Brand New Smart Bag This three-part series covers the basics of cybersecurity for three different user levels. The first is the novice technologist – those who wouldn’t use the technology if it wasn’t so darn convenient. The next category is the daily user – you check you phone when you wake up and […]
Read MoreOR No Hate Mail, Please – You Need To Hear This Julian Assange. Colonial Pipeline. Edward Snowden. What do they all have in common? All involved the compromise of weak passwords and little social engineering. I Know Your Password – Comedian Michael McIntyre nailed it. You’ve likely taken a capitalized dictionary word, added a number then an (!). If that resembles […]
Read MoreOR Live, Work, but Don’t Repeat I had to plug in my Serious Keyboard for this post. When the dust settles and some semblance of normal has returned, it is time to understand what happened, how it happened, and how to prevent or mitigate a repeat. However, many small to medium businesses are not so […]
Read MoreOR The Unintended Vice of Ignorance Part 2 – During the Attack – Who Dat? Who Dere? WARNING: Due the seriousness of the material, stickers have been added to lighten the mood. The phone rings on Saturday morning. Why, it’s Marvin from the office and he sounds nervous. He reports that a computer has a ransomware message on the […]
Read MoreOR, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Tape Part 1 – Intro and Prep Ransomware is probably the scariest and most disruptive thing an organization can face short of an IRS audit. Though you would be better off with the audit, as the typical ransom to release data is $233,000, not including […]
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