The U.S. government released its widely anticipated National Cybersecurity Strategy on Tuesday, pushing mandatory regulation on critical infrastructure vendors and green-lighting a more aggressive ‘hack-back’ approach to dealing with foreign adversaries and ransomware actors. The strategy is just that, a roadmap. While parts of it can be done without Congress’ approval, lots of it require additional authority. […]
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Many companies allow employees to use their own personal computers for work. They do this for employee convenience and an apparent cost savings. After all, if we don’t have to buy employees their own laptop, certainly we will save money. At least it seems like that is true. In a perfect world, with no hackers, […]
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At some point in the “relatively near future”, if are a DoD contractor, subcontractor, vendor, managed service provider or a host of other folks, you will be staring a CMMC certification in the face. Here are some thoughts from a provisional assessor on what it will take to get the job done. Hopefully this is […]
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When privacy advocates question the immense sharing of data with others, at least some of them say that they don’t care; they have nothing to hide. Perhaps that is true. I’m kind of on the other side there. I don’t want folks to share my info unless I say so. For the most part, we […]
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That is a pretty scary statement. Let’s say it is off by 100%. That means only 92% of the people think their cloud security sucks. Maybe the number is off by 500% – which is pretty unlikely. That means only 80% think they don’t have enough cloud security. Not only are they worried about securing […]
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Few Election Offices Use .Gov Domain Years ago, .gov domains cost $400. In a case of penny wise, pound foolish, something like three quarters of all election officers figured that saving $400 versus a non-spoofable domain name was a smart trade off. And we wonder why the hackers are winning. Credit: The Washington Post LinkedIn […]
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