How to Retain your Security Analyst

| | Cybersecurity Industry
We’ve covered the cybersecurity hiring shortage previously. We’ve warned against taking this path before. But, if you’ve decided to ignore us, let’s talk about what happens if you are lucky enough to ...

How to Retain your Security Analyst

| | Cybersecurity Industry
We’ve covered the cybersecurity hiring shortage previously. We’ve warned against taking this path before. Now, let’s talk about what happens if you are lucky enough to hire a qualified analyst. In short: you’ll ...

5 Signs to Replace Your Security Technology

“Set it and forget it” might work for some aspects of your organization, but cybersecurity isn’t one of them—or, at least, it shouldn’t be. Yet, cybersecurity tends to get back-burnered in favor ...

Diagnosing Your “Cybersecurity Anxiety”

There’s too many reasons for sleepless nights nowadays. Cyber risk does not have to be one of them.Unfortunately, if you answer 'Yes' to any of the following questions, cybersecurity likely weighs too ...

The Perfect Phishing Email

Thinking like the bad guys is part of being in cybersecurity. Our ability to anticipate the moves of our opponents is essential, just like in a chess game - except with real ...

2020 Cybersecurity Predictions

Foresight is a powerful human capability – and one that is integral in the field of cybersecurity. Today I revisit the predictions I made a year ago about what we could expect ...

Why Your AV Won’t Stop Ryuk Ransomware

I have been blogging about ransomware for a long time now, given its devastating impact upon small to mid-sized enterprises. However, there have been some indicators lately that people are finally being ...

Cybersecurity KPIs for the SMB

When I talk about security for the SMB, the go-to barrier is insufficient resources to invest in security. While I’m not denying that limited resources for a smaller organization can constrain your ...

Why Are We Seeing More Ransomware?

With the increasing prevalence of ransomware attacks, I needed to address why it was happening. In this five-minute video, I cover the factors that have changed both the nature of the market ...

Facebook Password Debacle – How Did This Happen?

*Title image from Wired magazine's March 2018 cover, via ZDNet's articleFacebook has categorically mishandled some extremely sensitive information, our passwords, by allowing them to be written to a plain TEXT FILE on ...