The 12 Days of Cybersecurity: Day 12

The 12 Days of Cybersecurity: Day 12

What is the NIST Cybersecurity Framework? The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a government entity with a mission to promote innovation and industrial competitiveness. They created the Cybersecurity Framework as a voluntary set of standards,...
The 12 Days of Cybersecurity: Day 11

The 12 Days of Cybersecurity: Day 11

A company of 50 employees may seem “too small” to be targeted for a cyber attack but in the eyes of a cyber criminal, 50 employees are 50 possible attack vectors to exploit. Inbound spam filtering and outbound web filtering may be helpful. It is recommended to provide...
The 12 Days of Cybersecurity: Day 10

The 12 Days of Cybersecurity: Day 10

Are you confident that your network is 100% secure? Are there old user accounts with administrative access still active? Have all of your security patches been applied? Even to printers, access points and other IoT devices? Following these practices can be critical...
The 12 Days of Cybersecurity: Day 9

The 12 Days of Cybersecurity: Day 9

In the age of work from home and remote computing, cyber criminals are looking for new and innovative ways to infiltrate organizations and steal their precious data.  One of the most recent methods is though your mobile devices on your home network.  Since we now...
12 Days of Cybersecurity: Day 8

12 Days of Cybersecurity: Day 8

If your idea of cybersecurity is a firewall and anti-virus then your organization could be at extreme risk. Firewalls and other preventive forms of cybersecurity are effective at preventing basic cyberattacks.  However, over the past decade it has become clear that...