Two years ago, I wrote the first iteration of Barbarians at the Gate, you can still find it on medium.com at https://medium.com/@gmatt.johnson/barbarians-at-the-gate-11b324a04459 Unfortunately, the Barbarians, amongst others, are still at the gate, and it does appear that they are setting up for a long-term siege of your business. The year 2020 has seen its share […]
It’s no secret that today’s cyber security breaches are happening with unprecedented sophistication and boldness. Just last month, the FBI issued an alert that everyone should reboot their routers in order to prevent a compromise that may have affected hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and other network devices. In more mundane cyber news, a MyFitnessPal […]
Everyone enjoys a great employee horror story or two. In the last 20 years of working in the field of Information Technology and Cyber Security, I have watched first hand as many untrained employees have done things to jeopardize their company Cyber Security. When it comes to the security and protection of your network, there […]
Today’s security landscape consistently shows data breaches, compliance failures and other security weaknesses for businesses of all sizes. Hackers make headlines every day and consumers have started to care about online crime because it’s a reality, and no company or individual is immune. So why, then, do some executives continue to be in denial about […]
On December 13 2020, multiple vendors such as FireEye and Microsoft reported emerging threats from a nation-state threat actor who compromised SolarWinds, and trojanized SolarWinds Orion business software updates in order to distribute backdoor malware called SUNBURST. Because of the popularity of SolarWinds, the attacks have affected multiple government agencies and many Fortune 500 companies. […]
