Cyber budgeting is a crucial component of financial planning for companies in all industries. In fact, most companies don’t even consider a cyber security budget. Businesses usually consider cyber as an “IT” investment. Monies spent on cyber security and IT are two separate bucket’s.
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All of the time and effort that goes into developing your security measures within your program is worth it. Building a comprehensive information security program forces alignment between your business objectives and your security objectives and builds in controls to ensure that these objectives, which can sometimes be viewed as hindrances to one another, grow and succeed as one.
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Threat actors are leveraging the global outage caused by a flawed update deployed to CrowdStrike’s Falcon sensor to target organizations with malware. Several cybersecurity researchers and agencies have reported observing an uptick in CrowdStrike-related phishing emails, including one that offered a fictitious Hotfix update that installed a remote access tool (RAT) known as Remcos.
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A basic understanding of information security and compliance is fundamental to the success of thousands of organizations. Unfortunately, the two terms are far too often misunderstood, mixed up, and misused. What if I told you that information security—if you understand it—can be used by your organization as a competitive advantage? But before we get there, we will need to gain an understanding of information security and compliance
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When we describe what we do at Secure Shield almost every time the reply is “so, you mean cybersecurity?” Well, Kind of
Information Security can be confusing to some people. Okay, maybe most people. What is infosec, and why is information security confusing? Well, apart from being compared to “Cyber Security”, maybe it’s because we miss some of the basics. Understanding information security comes from gathering perspective on the five W’s of security: what, why, who, when, and where.
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When Secure IT Systems decided to move away from the MSP space to focus solely on Information Security, it was to help try to fix a broken information security industry. One of the ways it’s broken is that there are many people and vendors participating in the money grab, trying to sell you potentially ineffective cyber security technology solutions. We call these blinky lights or better known as “The Blinky Lights Syndrome”: high-tech products or services that falsely claim they’ll fix everything for you automatically.
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One of the biggest, most consistent traps I’ve seen organizations fall into is making security overly complicated. It’s understandable—security as an industry is still relatively new and most of us feel like we are making the rules up as we go. And one of the cruxes of not understanding cyber security fundamentals is to make it more complex than it needs to be.
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Today’s digital landscape is constantly evolving. At the same time, cybercriminals are becoming more sophisticated. This means it’s increasingly important for organizations to develop an effective threat hunting strategy to detect and mitigate malicious activity within their networks.
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Between brute force, credential stuffing, and password spraying attacks, password security is still top of mind for global IT professionals.
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The actual cost of a data breach is significantly more than the damages reported in news stories. The data and assets you rely on to maintain operations are valuable and must be secured.
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