Education and Careers
Fortress Information Security Strives to Help Protect Critical Infrastructure
The agencies and businesses that make up the backbone of our critical infrastructure have a larger bullseye on their backs than an average company. When it comes to the electric utility providers ...
How to prepare for a ransomware attack
The threat of ransomware Ransomware has become a common and well-known threat to organizations. Its success is largely based on the fact that it is a simple yet effective way for an ...
Mitigating the Threat of Hackers to Your Supply Chain
Ian Stone | | Cloud Security, collaboration, Cybersecurity, Data breach, Data Loss Protection, risk management, Security Awareness, supply chain
The rate of digital disruption has recently skyrocketed across every industry, helping accelerate global expansion and automating mundane, menial tasks. Coupled with this is the fact that as businesses grow globally, we ...
5 Social Engineering Attacks to Watch Out For
David Bisson | | Phishing, Pretexting, quid pro quo, Security Awareness, social engineering, Tailgating
We all know about the type of attacker who leverages their technical expertise to infiltrate protected computer systems and compromise sensitive data. This breed of malicious actor makes news all the time, ...
Harvesting Likes on Social Media or a Window for the Hacker to Climb Through?
So earlier this year, I wrote a piece about how we as humans are so quick to give away personal information to various companies in the quest for discounts or free stuff ...
Leadership Through Security: The Changing Role of the CISO
The traditional career path for a chief information security officer (CISO) is fairly straightforward. An individual begins their career in IT but ultimately moves to security after demonstrating a security mindset. Once ...
Cybersecurity is About Teamwork, Not Individuals
The Vaporstream Team | | breaches, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, cybersecurity culture, employees, Human Error, training
More and more, businesses blame cyberattacks on “human error,” that single employee who, either accidentally or maliciously, made a decision that resulted in a security breach. You probably remember the 2017 Equifax ...
Don’t Respond to Suspicious Emails
Sometimes when sending phishing simulations to our clients, we setup a reply-to address to see if people will reply to suspicious emails and many do ...
10 Security Blunders that should stay in 2019
SecurityExpert | | incident management, misconfiguration, Password Security, patching, Security Awareness
Cyber attacks are inevitable, regardless of the size of a business or the sector it operates in. Cyber criminals will try their luck with any business connected to the internet. But as ...
Survey Finds Many SOCs are Set Up to Fail
Tony Bradley | | Alert Fatigue, risk management, security, Security Awareness, SOC, Threat Intelligence
Devo is a sponsor of TechSpective At face value, the idea of a security operations center (SOC) makes tremendous sense. What organization wouldn’t want a team of dedicated cybersecurity professionals monitoring the ...





