In mid-November, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the Federal Government Cybersecurity Incident and Vulnerability Response Playbooks. These playbooks are designed to aid federal civilian agencies to respond to cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The CISA hopes to standardize the approaches federal…
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Executive Order 14028, Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, signed by Biden on May 12, 2021, mandates different agencies to enhance cybersecurity through various initiatives in the security and integrity of software and data. The order was prompted by numerous high-profile information security and…
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Long before the pandemic popularized the work from the home approach as a survival tactic, the remote work culture was already widespread. About ten years ago, when technologies like Slack, Google Zoom, and Drive that enabled remote work were introduced,…
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2021 has seen a series of alarming cybersecurity incidences that have propelled the Biden administration to take swift action. The latter comes in the form of a robust Congressional cybersecurity agenda aimed at expanding the nation’s cybersecurity capabilities. In retrospect,…
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Several high-profile attacks early in the year made cybersecurity one of the first orders of business for the incoming Biden administration. With an executive order, President Biden ordered several federal government agencies to put together plans to strengthen the nation’s…
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Have you ever taken the time to consider what would happen if technological systems – that you rely on daily – were no longer working? Think about everything that would go wrong if you could not reach emergency services, access…
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One of the easiest ways to better protect your networks and systems is by implementing multifactor authentication (MFA). This is the process of asking your team members to provide a second set of credentials to access your system. It’s one…
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There have been many wars across the world since the beginning of time. Most of these wars were physical, boots on the ground, firefights. Taking a few glances at the news tells you that we are moving into the territory…
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What is the Cyber Incident Notification Act of 2021? The Cyber Incident Notification Act (CINA) (read full text here) began circulating in draft format on June 16th. Led by Mark Warner, Senate Intelligence Chair, Marco Rubio, and Susan Collins, its emergence…
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In the aftermath of the SolarWinds and Hafnium incidents in recent months, and as panic buying is sweeping multiple states in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack triggering long lines and emergency declarations, this week President Biden signed…
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Protecting the organization’s infrastructure is a critical priority for IT departments in every sector. Cybercrime statistics are sobering. Attacks occur at the rate of one attack every 39 seconds, and 81% of organizations surveyed underwent a successful unauthorized intrusion. Organizations that process and…
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Supply chain attacks (also known as a third party or value chain attack) have become quite rampant thanks to technological sophistication that has given hackers more resources to infiltrate private data and processes. Most recently, SolarWinds, an IT management company,…
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