Because Security Gives Us Freedom.
By Josh Eklow
onShore Security’s Chris Johnson wrote in his entry for MSPblog about a common misconception in cybersecurity.
“Many people assume that technology should be doing all of the work when it comes to security (i.e. more alerts = less risk). While technology is a vital part of a robust security posture, it shouldn’t stand on its own. Essentially, blinking lights and shiny objects don’t make you more secure, nor should it be what you base your security service offerings on.”
By Josh Eklow
Spectre and Meltdown are a pair of newly discovered cyber attacks that “exploit critical vulnerabilities in modern processors”. These programs, which can attack PCs, mobile devices, and even cloud-based machines, seek sensitive data in the memory of other running programs. In particular, Meltdown penetrates the barrier between user applications and the operating system, allowing a program (the exploit, in this case) to access the memory of other programs, including the OS. Software patches against Meltdown and Spectre have been developed, but are reported to be buggy and could potentially cause problems. [Read more…]
By Josh Eklow
Insights Success recently did a profile on onShore Security and our CEO, Stel Valavanis. Read below or click here to read this article on Insights Success: [Read more…]
By Josh Eklow
The following is written by Tressler LLP’s Todd Rowe. The original post can be found here – “One-Size Does Not Fit All: Court Finds Not Every Crime Involving A Computer Is A Cyber Crime”
Over the years there have been questions whether the term “cyber” is adequate in light of the exponential growth of privacy law. First, the term “cyber” tried to do too much when it was used to describe everything from large-scale data breaches to small instances of corporate espionage. Further, the term “cyber” did not do enough to distinguish between personal information being compromised through sophisticated computer attacks and information compromised through unsophisticated employee negligence. Finally, the “one-size fits all” use of the term “cyber” has recently been called into question by a federal court. [Read more…]
By Josh Eklow
onShore Security’s Chris Johnson recently gave this talk on segregation of duties to an audience concerned with cybersecurity and compliance at SIM’s 2017 Cybersecurity Summit.