Posts about CyberSecurity

What Happens During a Cybersecurity Assessment?

When most people think of cybersecurity, they think of anti-virus and firewalls. While that is part of cybersecurity, it is equivalent to thinking of a tire or a windshield when thinking about an automobile. Cybersecurity is the comprehensive ability of an organization to identify, protect, detect, respond and recover from cyberincidents. These cyberincidents have the potential to damage brand integrity through data loss or leakage. Cybersecurity assessments are an important compoent to any greater cybersecurity strategy. This article discusses what happens in a cybersecurity asessment. A Cybersecurity Posture Assessment is standardized process used to define, evaluate, assess and document [...]

By |November 8th, 2018|CyberSecurity, Technology Spotlight, Thought Leaders|0 Comments
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Cybersecurity Best Practices

People often tend to think of cybersecurity as only an IT function, such as network security, or like a firewall or having antivirus on a computer.  Cybersecurity is driven at the organization level. It is composed of culture, behavior, goals, priorities and then protections, procedures and verification. Cybersecurity best practices are much more than at the IT level. Cybersecurity starts at the top with the executives and trickle down to management. Management needs to articulate plans to the technical architects, engineers, analysts and tools.  On the executive level, cybersecurity needs to be a business strategy. In the IT ranks, [...]

By |November 6th, 2018|CyberSecurity, Technology Spotlight|0 Comments
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AI-Based Cyber Security: Blue Vector vs. Darktrace

Cyber Security threats are a dime a dozen today. Within the last two years everything from Presidential Elections to state governments has been at the mercy of hacking, malware and ransomware. Humans cannot keep up with the speed of these attacks The attacks are too frequent and harder to spot. AI-based programs are neccessary. These programs handle the attackes as they come in and optimize the system for threats in a way that acts as an automated defense system.   This approach is being adopted by various AI based cyber security firms. They aim to provide companies and governments [...]

By |September 18th, 2018|CyberSecurity|0 Comments
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5 Recent Cyber Security Threats in 2018

Cyber security threats, hacks, malware, and ransomware are all words that the world has become extremely familiar with in the last 2 years. Thanks to the myriad of cyber attacks being talked about in the news today, there is a mountain of news concentrated on the subject. With attacks affecting countries from Russia all the way to the United States, there is no country that is safe from the scourge of cyber attacks. Here are just a few recent cyber attacks that have rocked various countries and companies around the world. Hidden Cobra It sounds like the title of a [...]

By |September 11th, 2018|CyberSecurity|0 Comments
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Why it is Getting Harder to Find IT and Technical Talent

Since this article is being written in June 2018, it’s only fair to mention that the unemployment rate in the United States just fell to 3.8 percent. The last time we witnessed the unemployment rate this low was back in April 2000. This was just before the dot com bubble got burst between the years 2001 and 2002. It is hard to find information technology people and talent, and even harder when the unemployment rate is near record lows. The Tech Skills Gap is a real thing. The unemployment rate for IT and tech talent is usually 2.1 to 2.4 [...]

By |July 20th, 2018|CyberSecurity, IT Recruiting, IT Staffing, Tech Skills Gap|0 Comments
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