In an effort to fortify our critical infrastructure security, CISA has a new program to enhance cyber resilience of participating partners using CISA’s advanced threat detection and monitoring capabilities. The program is called CyberSentry and it is designed to work across industries, in real time and monitor both traditional IT networks and those control or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week I wrote about how long it takes hackers to find “secrets” that are left accidentally (hopefully) exposed in the cloud. The answer was scarily short – as little as two minutes. This prompted one reader to ask “well how should I harden my cloud server”. Here are some tips. Most of the time […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Securities and Exchange Commission is not happy with JP Morgan for accidentally deleting millions of emails related to it’s Chase Bank subsidiary. The company deleted something on the order of 47 million electronic communications records from almost 9,000 mailboxes covering the period January 1 to April 23, 2018. Many of these records were required […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We hear stories about the time it takes to weaponize security patches. This test, by Orca Security, tested a different problem. They wanted to know how long it takes hackers to discover secrets that you leave exposed in your cloud environment. They tested a variety of resources from Github to AWS. The good news is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The short answer to this is yes. Why? Because no one is managing your employees’ home networks. We have seen networks where the firewall has not been patched for years. We have also seen home networks with no firewalls at all. Doesn’t your ISP provide you with a firewall? The answer is that they may. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]That is a bit of an over statement, but basically true. You may remember the movie Catch Me If You Can where the star, Frank Abagnale played by actor Leonardo DiCaprio, led police on a chase that covered the globe and went on for years. Abagnale later became a police consultant in exchange for a […]
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