Posted on 10.03.18 by Nate Lewis
Holding off from adopting a BYOD policy is an uphill battle. In the past five years alone, we’ve seen a number of significant shifts in technology and workplace culture. With these new changes come new security risks, so how do we address them?
Posted on 10.02.18 by Prateek Singh
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a service known as Identity and Access Management (IAM) that lets AWS Administrators provision and manage users and permissions in AWS cloud. AWS IAM can prove very useful for System Administrators looking to centrally manage users,...
Posted on 09.28.18 by Nate Lewis
One look at the headlines is all it takes to see why security is at the forefront of every IT team’s mind. Hacks, data theft—you name it; some of the largest corporations have succumbed to these pitfalls over the past few years, and there’s no end in sight. It's no...
Posted on 09.26.18 by Michael O'Dwyer
Readers of previous posts are aware of my reservations on the current ubiquitous drive to connect absolutely everything (from the frivolous to the useful) to the internet but there is no denying that the trend will continue unabated. This will create security risks that...
Posted on 09.24.18 by Michael O'Dwyer
Regardless of industry, companies are subject to data protection laws according to their jurisdiction.
Posted on 09.21.18 by Nate Lewis
Privacy is something that every organization needs to take seriously. When customers and clients trust an organization with their private information, that trust needs to be respected. As with healthcare, the insurance industry needs to adhere to significant regulation.
Posted on 09.19.18 by Greg Mooney
Companies around the world have anxiously awaited who will be made an example of under the new GDPR regulations. Under GDPR, entities who violate the regulations are on the hook for stringent fines and civil lawsuits.
Posted on 09.14.18 by Kevin Conklin
Nearly a million servers around the world still run the unsecure legacy FTP protocol and are actually configured for ‘anonymous’ access. Not good.
Posted on 09.12.18 by Dan Franciscus
With OpenSSH, you can remote into any operating system from any operating system. This is a wonderful thing!
Posted on 09.11.18 by Alex Jablokow
FIPS 140-2 is a requirements document that sets the minimum strength level for data encryption used in Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) federal operating environments. But its influence goes far beyond this significant but delimited area.
