Cybersecurity | Craig Peterson | America's Leading Network Security Coach

Cyber War isn’t Coming It is already Here!

Jan 18, 2020 | Applications, Attack Vectors, Audit Logs, Business, Cloud, Compliance, Computers, credentials, Cyber breaches, cyberattacks, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Assets, Economic Disruption, Employees, Government, Hackers, Hacking, Hacking, Intellectual Property Theft, Internet, Iran, Nationstates, Passwords, Patching, Phishing, Radio_Show, safety, Security, Security Alerts, spying, Technology, Third - Party, third-world, Updates, Updates, Vulnerabilities, Wiper Malware

Cyber War isn’t Coming It is already Here! Wars today are less likely to be kinetic, and it is safe to assume that the primary mode of retaliation from Iran will be a cyber attack. Iran wants to bring down the U.S., and the fastest way to do that is to damage us...

How Mature is Your Insider Threat Intelligence?

Jan 11, 2020 | Access Controls, Amazon, Apple, Asset Management, Attack Vectors, audit logs, Backup, Big Tech, Business, Computers, Cyber breaches, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data, Data Assets, data sharing, Data Storage, Employee Training, Employment, Encryption, Fines and Penalties, Google, Hacking, Incident Response, industrial espionage, Insider Threat, Internet, Jobs, Legal, Liability, Malware, Malware, Microsoft, Monitoring, Networking, predictive algorithms, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Ransomware, Security, Software As A Service, Surveillance, Technology, Zero-Day

How Mature is Your Insider Threat Intelligence? Are insiders a threat to your business? How would you know? Today it is necessary for companies to establish a robust insider threat program that can detect employee-created risk and respond accordingly but keeping...

Zeroing In On our Industrial Control Systems

Jan 11, 2020 | Business, cyberattacks, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Government, Hackers, Hacking, Intellectual Property Theft, Iran, Nationstates, Patching, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security, Security Alerts, Updates, Vulnerabilities, Wiper Malware

Zeroing In On our Industrial Control Systems The country of Iran has been recruiting and training an army of cyberhackers and developing digital tools that can disruptively sabatoge entire computer networks. Now they are focusing their efforts on SCADA systems often...

Metrics Can Not Adequately Describe The Pain of Cybercrime

Jan 11, 2020 | Access Controls, Applications, Asset Management, Attack Vectors, Audit Logs, audit logs, Business, Compliance, Computers, Cyber breaches, cyberattacks, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Assets, Data Storage, Hackers, Hacking, Incident Response, Intellectual Property Theft, Malware, Patching, Security, Security Alerts, Third - Party, Updates

Metrics Can Not Adequately Describe The Pain of Cybercrime How can you measure the effect of a cybersecurity incident on your company? Knowing the number of records involved and the costs incurred by the event, but it can not give you a complete picture because there...

Hackers Preying on Old and Decrepit Technology

Jan 11, 2020 | Anti-Virus, Applications, Attack Vectors, Best Practices, Business, Computers, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data, Hackers, Hacking, Incident Response, Internet, Legacy, Legacy Systems, Malware, Passwords, Patches, Policies and Procedures, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Compliance, Security, Security, Security Assessments, Software, Technology, Updates, Vulnerabilities, Zero-Day

Hackers Preying on Old and Decrepit Technology 1042-02 Cybercriminals will innovate when necessary. However, more likely, like any successful enterprise, they will harvest any low-hanging fruit when and wherever they can find it. For those of us with unpatched older...

Nebulous Budget and Security Concerns Affecting Cloudy Decisions

Jan 11, 2020 | Amazon, Applications, Asset Management, Attack Vectors, Big Tech, Business, Cloud, Compliance, Cyber Liability, Cybersecurity, Data Assets, Encryption, Fines and Penalties, Google, Governance, Incident Response, Microsoft, Patching, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security, Security Alerts, Technology, Third - Party, Updates

Nebulous Budget and Security Concerns Affecting Cloudy Decisions Everyone is talking about “the cloud,” and many of the more prominent forecasting firms are saying that the revenue from this technology will exceed 350 billion in the next three years....