Posts for category: Best Practices

Weekly Executive Summary for Week of March 10, 2017

WordPress Security With the recent vulnerabilities with WordPress, it is always important to ensure that your sites are secure.  By following some of the Best Practices provided by WordPress and ...

Weekly Executive Summary for Week of March 3, 2017

Focusing On Basic Security Critical Security Controls With the increasing number of breaches and security incidents, analysts and investigators reveal that the main reason behind these attacks ...

Weekly Executive Summary for Week of February 24, 2017

Data Breach Response Best Practices If a malicious attacker is successful in penetrating your network and extracting sensitive data, there is a need to properly respond to the incident.  The ...

Weekly Patch and Update Summary for Week of February 17, 2017

For all patches and updates listed below please use the appropriate updating methods for your system.  It is advised that you patch and update your system as soon as ...

Weekly Executive Summary for Week of February 17, 2017

Network Segmentation The basic concept of network segmentation will further secure your network and mitigate network intrusion.  Even with today's technologies, there's always a chance that an ...

Weekly Executive Summary for Week of February 10, 2017

Don’t Forget About Your Router With the recent Mirai botnet malware,  many wireless connected home devices were infected using default usernames and passwords.  The Mirai malware then can turn ...

Weekly Executive Summary for Week of February 3, 2017

The Importance of Endpoint Security Endpoint security is an important role in any cybersecurity infrastructure and needs to be more preventative because of the high success rate of malware ...

Weekly Executive Summary for Week of January 20, 2017

The Year of Ransomware According to Malwarebytes Labs, ransomware was the leading type of malware that attackers were utilizing against businesses.  The report also stated that the FBI has ...

Weekly Executive Summary for Week of November 25, 2016

DHS Releases Best Practices for IoT Revolution The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released Strategic Principles for Securing the Internet of Things (IoT).  The purpose was to help IoT ...

Weekly Patch and Update Summary for Week of November 18, 2016

For all patches and updates listed below please use the appropriate updating methods for your system.  It is advised that you patch and update your system as soon as possible. Mozilla Mozilla ...