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Cybersecurity Awareness – By Ron Frechette, The Cyber Coach With the holidays just around the corner, we need to be hyper-vigilant about spoofing and phishing attacks.  Over the past 24 months, spoofing and phishing attacks have become the most common attack vectors used by cybercriminals.  So, for this month we want to provide a Spoofing

Cybersecurity Awareness – By Ron Frechette, The Cyber Coach October is National Cyber Security Awareness month. Earlier this year we introduced the concept of digital footprints. This month we will focus on adopting a cyber risk management system to identify vulnerabilities (aka gaps) within each of the threat vectors that surround our digital footprints.  Having

Cybersecurity Awareness – By Ron Frechette, The Cyber Coach Last month we covered Third-Party Security Vetting. Companies are beginning to send letters to their vendors and partners requesting they complete security questionnaires, in an effort to determine the level of risk they pose in conducting business with them. While having basic security controls in place will

Cybersecurity Awareness – By Ron Frechette, The Cyber Coach If you own or operate a small-midsize business (SMB), chances are you recently received a cyber security questionnaire from at least one of your clients asking numerous detailed questions about the security posture of your organization. If you haven’t yet, rest assured you will be receiving

Security Education – By Dylan "The Magician" Baklor Don’t use long passwords, use short passphrases. Passwords are a frustrating necessity for both users as well as network administrators. Now I imagine the first part of the article title may have caught you off guard so let me elaborate. A password can be many things for