• December 13, 2022

    The FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report named business email compromise (BEC) as the most effective weapon in the cybercrime arsenal. It accounted for third of the country’s $6.9 billion in cyber losses that year and is expected to rake in...

  • December 8, 2022

    The OpenSSL vulnerability is big news. Why? This one is the OpenSSL bug with the highest level of risk since the infamous Heartbleed way back in 2014. It has since resulted in the release of two common vulnerabilities and exposures...

  • December 6, 2022

    The insurance industry is in somewhat of a crisis. Home insurance rates have climbed. Providers are pulling out of the market in some parts of the country. Flood insurance, too, is a major issue. It is mandated in many coastal...

  • December 1, 2022

    The Zero Trust concept is all about securing endpoints, applications, IT infrastructure and data based on the assumption that any network or endpoint is always at risk of either internal or internal attack. Accordingly, Zero Trust means individuals are not automatically...

  • November 29, 2022

    Q and A with Graham Brooks, Senior Security Solutions Architect, Syxsense.   What is vulnerability management?   Vulnerability management is the process of mitigating configuration or code issues which could allow an attacker to exploit an environment. It can be deployed as...

  • November 17, 2022

    The old expression, “It has more holes than Swiss cheese,” seems more and more applicable to IT infrastructure and modern applications. The State of Software Security (SoSS) report concluded that 72% of applications contain vulnerabilities and as many as 12%...

  • November 15, 2022

    “I feel the need, the need for speed,” is a famous line from the movie Top Gun. Back then it referred to fast airplanes. But it could equally apply to vulnerability management. The pace with which IT department detect breaches,...

  • December 11, 2018

    Do you have a patching strategy? It should include turning off Automatic Windows update. Patch Tuesday is here. To avoid the usual splitting headache, we recommend disabling automatic updates for Windows and implementing a reliable patch strategy. Windows 10 updates...