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Our First Day

So, you’ve found a job that you wish to stay at for a little while. Getting comfortable, free coffee and your bosses are everything you’ve ever wished for in upper management. As you unpack family photos (a picture of your pug), set down your favorite coffee mug and start reading through the new hire packet ...

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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity

Introduction As we start to wind down 2019, and venture onwards into 2020, there is one thing that will be certain for Corporate America:  Cyberthreats and their attackers will abound, but the difference this time will be that they will be stealthier and more covert in what they do. In other words, gone are the days ...

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Businessperson of the Year

Businessperson of the Year Anything but a popularity contest, Fortune’s editors crunch 10 financial factors then look for leaders who “tackled audacious goals, overcame impossible odds, found creative solutions.” And this year’s new Businessperson of the Year is Microsoft’s Satya Nadella. Please take 1 minute to read the incredible outcomes and approach Nadella has used ...

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Cyber Insurance Explained

There is a new trend that is emerging – that of Cybersecurity Insurance. Because of what it all has been through, the City of Baltimore has purchased a sweeping, brand new $20 million policy in order to protect not only its assets, but the people whom have been impacted by it as well, which includes mostly ...

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How Are Penetration Teams Structured – Part 3

What Is the Red Team? The Red Team that has the primary responsibility of launching an “ethical based” Cyber-attack against the defense perimeters of a business or a corporation in order to uncover its true Security vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and holes.  But it is important to note here that the Red Team is not particularly interested in ...

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Don’t Be Common

Many of us spend a good majority of our lives at our place of work, with people that we can sometimes tolerate or even on a rare occasion, enjoy. So if we are spending this vast amount of time with these individuals wouldn’t it be nice to have some sort of connection or otherwise common ...

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An Introduction to Mobile Device Management

As a business owner, you have many responsibilities and activities that you have to deal with on a daily basis.  One of these tasks is overseeing the management of your IT Infrastructure.  You may already have an administrator doing these day to day functions, but you want to make sure that you know what is ...

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How Are Penetration Teams Structured – Part 2

What Is the Blue Team? The overall, arching task of the Blue Team is fight off the Cyber-attack that has been launched by the Red Team.  But apart from this, the Blue Team has other specific responsibilities in the efforts to overcome the Cyber-attack.  They are as follows: Preparedness: The Blue Team will do everything possible in ...

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How Are Penetration Teams Structured – Part 1

Introduction In the world of Cyber Security today, there are obviously many technologies out there that one can use fortify the lines of defense for their business or corporation.  To a certain degree, depending upon how well these devices have been deployed and implemented, they should block any malicious traffic coming in into your IT Infrastructure ...

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Encrypted DNS – It’s coming (it’s here)!

Plain Old Unencrypted DNS Most of the readers of this blog will already be familiar with DNS systems and how they work but let me just refresh your memory.  And for readers who are unfamiliar with DNS, this will give you a very brief overview of DNS and what it does. DNS stands for Domain Name System, ...

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