I am very pleased Mr. Hyde agreed to join to my growing Board of Advisors. His decades of experience in the defense and intelligence community, plus his interest in cyber, access control and technical innovation make him a perfect fit. Mr. Hyde previously w Excerpt below is from the article “When the agency
It is in my routine to read emails before starting my daily work while enjoying my cup of coffee. While browsing for important emails I need to separate spam emails from legitimate emails and analyze the spam emails. I was trying to sort out the spam emails when I came
What do CERCLA, ISO, and SOX mean to you and your business? With increased attention on good governance practices, oil and gas industry members are only an acronym away from experiencing a regulatory rain that rivals hell’s brimstone. Luckily, all the pain can be avoided with good records management and
The regular cadence of high-profile security breaches that we saw during 2014 continued into 2015, with health insurance giant Anthem providing the latest entry in a growing list of major corporate victims. We will not review the Anthem breach in our quarterly report as it has already been covered extensively
Don’t Let ROT Takeover: Shrink the Shared Drive If you don’t work in information management, you probably define the word “rot” as a big mess. And really, when it comes to IM, ROT isn’t that much different. Think about the hard drive on your computer or laptop. How well are
What’s In & What’s Out: What Should Stay On Your Shared Drives It’s time. You’re finally migrating your files, maybe to a new SharePoint site or some other improved file repository. But it seems like you’re faced with an insurmountable task. Which files should you take with you to this
In the past months of analyzing malware samples, Macro malware has been on the rise. Last week, we received a fake email of Google Enterprise Support with an attachment file “Info I44185821.zip-> Wire_info_60255.doc”. See the email snapshot below. The file “Wire_info_60255.doc” is indeed a Word document which contains a malicious
I received my third letter in as many years this morning from a business telling me that their network was breached and my personal information compromised. In this case, the business was Anthem, and I’m queasier about this one since the list of information possibly taken is the longest yet:
The Internet of Things (IoT) is hot. From light bulbs to refrigerators to smart TVs, companies are under tremendous pressure to get new IoT devices to market and consumers are instantly snapping them up. In fact, the number of devices that are or will shortly be connected to the Internet
We have covered the resurgence of macro malware at length in our Security Yearbook. Recap – after an absence of around 10-15 years macro malware returned with a vengeance in the last 2 months of 2014. This time the new-old malware is paired with a favorite of the email malware
