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    • Blog / Watering Hole Attacks: What they are and how to avoid them Watering hole attacks represented by a do not drink sign I’ve talked about many different kinds of attacks over the course of this newsletter. Ransomware gets a lot of attention (since it’s such a common attack), but I’ve also talked about phishing, social engineering, cross-site scripting and other types of attacks. It’s important to understand the vocabulary of computer security if you don’t want to […] October 05, 2021
    Blog / Have you heard of a thing called smishing? Person opening a smishing message on their phone One thing you should understand about computer people is that we love to give things funny or clever names, and we love our acronyms. Computer hardware storage sizes are a great example. It’s all about bits and bytes (and there’s even an old out-of-use term known as a nibble). These are real terms that I’m […] September 28, 2021
    Blog / Clarifying Change Management For Businesses (Pt. 1) Two arrows pointed opposite ways, demonstrating the concept of change management. As many have noted over the years, change is inevitable. That doesn’t mean it’s good or bad, just that there’s not a lot we can do to stop it. So rather than resisting change, many businesses embrace it. Oftentimes change can bring about more efficient processes, improved customer service, higher satisfaction, and ultimately better overall […] September 23, 2021
    Blog / Email Security Is More Important Than Ever Padlock and envelopes concept of email security Email is an amazing tool that just about everyone is at least partly familiar with. Every day, millions of emails are sent across the globe. But that’s not even the most amazing thing about it. The truly incredible thing about email is its complete and utter lack of built-in security. That’s right. When you boil […] September 21, 2021
    Blog / Computer Security Basics Are Always Evolving Business man upgrading computer security practices What’s considered common sense in computer security is always changing. In fact, if I had to describe the world of computer security in one word, it would be ‘volatile’. Unfortunately too many people think this just means the bad guys are constantly evolving their tactics. Too often they forget that, in this context, volatility also […] September 14, 2021
    Blog / The Benefits of VOIP Technology for Business VoIP technology represented by a phone cord connected to a mouse Voice over Internet Protocol, also known as VoIP technology, is seeing a resurgence in business uptake. In fact, according to a 2020 report from Global Market Insights, the VoIP services market will grow to an estimated $90 BILLION USD by 2027. VoIP has not only been integral to businesses’ ability to communicate throughout the pandemic, […] September 09, 2021
    Blog / Layered Security is Your Network’s Best Defense Layered security represented by three interlocking padlocks Another day, another breach of a major company. This time around it’s T-Mobile, one of the major US cellular carriers, who apparently wasn’t using layered security as part of their defenses. The hacker claiming to be responsible is active on Twitter, and claims the attack was politically motivated by an alleged abduction and subsequent torture […] September 07, 2021
    Blog / Website Monitoring and Traffic Filtering for Businesses Camera against circuit symbolizing website monitoring When the internet was first invented we thought it was going to be a boon for humanity. Unfortunately, although it was easy to see the internet’s potential for good, it was just as easy for the criminals to see its potential for exploitation. From a business perspective, this meant things like leaking inside information, wasting […] August 31, 2021
    Blog / Data Meshes are the Future of Data Architecture Pipes taking in bytes, representing data meshes and their pipelines Data management has been an issue for growing businesses for a long time. For decades businesses have relied on vast data lakes or monolithic data warehouses to manage their data. Unfortunately, the extensive investments many businesses have made in their data warehousing is not paying off the way they would like. That’s because centralized data […] August 26, 2021
    Blog / The Threat of Quadruple Extortion Hacker getting paid after using a quadruple extortion ransomware attack Ransomware is making headlines yet again with “quadruple extortion”. As regular readers know by now, ransomware has become hackers’ preferred mode of attack. Just in case you don’t know by now, ransomware is malicious software that encrypts files and holds them hostage until the victim, usually a business of some kind, pays a ransom to […] August 24, 2021

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