One of the biggest surprises IT receives during an audit is that their network is basically configured to grant attackers access. So often, there are active user accounts for users who no longer even work at your organization. Some executives ask, “How did so-and-so...
Been hacked? Well there is always the insanity defense! IT professionals, both in-house and out-sourced, have a validated reason for being adverse to patching operating systems. Executives have a valid reason to be adverse to upgrading operating systems from, for...
Attackers have learned that one of the easiest and most successful ways to successfully take control of a network is to launch attacks against vulnerable programs on your systems. It is almost certain that you are not protected against these attacks—at least not...
It is time to review your anti-spam filters and your web-filters to ensure you are adequately protected against targeted email attacks as well as drive-by-download attacks. The latter attacks happen when one of your users visits an infected site. The settings your IT...
Many attacks come from the outside world. Those attacks are directed at your users. There are two ways, and teach these to your workers, to identify almost all of these dangerous email messages before the user clicks on them. The giveaways are: The email message has...
