On July 20, 2021, The Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced new requirements for U.S. pipeline operators to bolster cybersecurity following the May ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline that disrupted gas...
Hot Take: Should Paying Ransoms be Illegal?
It’s everywhere – national headlines, talk shows, podcasts, blogs and social media. The latest topic in tech has everyone talking: should paying off ransomware criminals be illegal? Following the recent increase in ransomware attacks around the globe, governments are...
The Price is Right: The Cost of $ecurity for Colonial Pipeline
The May 7, 2021 cybersecurity attack on Colonial Pipeline is the latest ransomware attack to widely disrupt national infrastructure and one of our nation’s largest and most successful attacks to date. Like most Americans, we bet you’re extremely familiar with this...
Reinforcing government cyber defenses: 3 tools to protect your organization
Following recent cybersecurity attacks that may have revealed secrets and critical information to Russia, the U.S. government is scrambling to reinforce the nation’s cyber defenses. With access to the data and emails of at least nine U.S. government agencies,...
Lost in the Chaos: 3 Tips to Mitigate COVID-19 Security Challenges in Healthcare
Worldwide, we’ve taken many hits in the past year and a half. From the economy to healthcare and everything in between, COVID-19 has uprooted the daily lives and operations of people and organizations everywhere. Lost in the chaos of it all, there was IT security....
High Risks in Higher Education: 2021 Security Outlook
COVID-19 has changed nearly every aspect of our lives, not to mention the operations of entire industries. Think about it: what does your ‘new normal’ look like? For higher ed institutions, it consists of the rapid switch to online learning to ensure the physical...
2020 Cybersecurity Predictions
Imagine this: The year is 2020. You sit down for dinner and notice your children’s eyes are glued to the device in front of them. Your partner calls out from the kitchen, “Alexa, what time is my hair appointment tomorrow?” Suddenly, your Bluetooth-enabled crockpot...