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High Risks in Higher Education: 2021 Security Outlook

As higher education attacks are 350% higher than last yer, we predict 2021 will bring more incidents involving ransomware, DDoS, and targeting phishing.

It Takes a Village: 5 Leadership Principles to Help Build a Resilient Cybersecurity Program

Like cybersecurity, children requires many things: time, energy and a whole lot of money. To make your life a little easier and encourage you to keep cybersecurity at the forefront, The World Economic Forum issued a guide detailing the top 5 cybersecurity leadership principles to drive a responsible course of action. We recap them here with some specific recommendations.

Cybersecurity Strategies Post-COVID-19: Get Protected or Get Down with the Sickness

Unlike Distrubed’s song, we don’t want you to “get down with the sickness”. Here’s 5 specific strategies for SMBs and mid-size enterprises in the era of remote working and COVID-19.

Post COVID-19: 4 Emerging New-Age Tech Security Challenges

COVID-19 will accelerate the move toward virtual engagement, including VR and AR technologies, and we’re seeing adoption already in education and healthcare, among others. AR and VR bring new threats, new risks, and will require forward-thinking protection.

Iran Cyber-Response: 4 Recommendations for Defending Your Organization from Nation-State Attacks

While we offer services to review and assess firewall rules for security, if you have the resources in-house, organizations can tackle this by configuring rules to log (audit mode) temporarily and reviewing the to see which are being used. If it hasn’t already been done (and documented) further research should be done to review the in-use rules, identify the resources in play, and make sure there’s a business case documented for each policy or rule set.