Mike Foster’s IT Security & Best Practices Blog

Password attacks against businesses happen all the time. You can protect your organization. Imagine that your firewall has doors to allow connections into your network. Usernames and passwords are the keys to unlocking the doors. An effective cybersecurity control is to remove the doors. When there is no door, there is no keyhole for an […]

Have you ever noticed you are in a video conference call and did not realize your camera was capturing you? Or maybe you have two cameras, and your software unexpectedly selected the wrong one and broadcast an unflattering camera angle or showed something in the background you thought was out of frame? Embarrassing. Cover up […]

An executive asked for a short list of what they should be doing now to prepare for the unlikely event of a disruption to our critical infrastructure. Here are some basics: Make contingency plans for what you’ll do if the power goes out for an extended time. Consider how you’ll respond if you’re unable to […]

Someone contacted me to explain that attackers hacked a family member’s Instagram account and threatened to expose some embarrassing photographs unless they paid the bad actor more than a thousand dollars. I told them: