How to Keep Up… (IT & Security Edition)

How to Keep Up… (IT & Security Edition)

IT and Security are both high-growth industries. It’s easy to understand that times change, technologies change, and vendors change. It inevitable, and a certain degree of change is always expected. As IT and Security professionals, we expect that continuous...
Domain Doppelganger

Domain Doppelganger

Is this what you expected to find at the URL you just clicked?   Domain Doppelganger (aka Lookalike domains) are URLs that look similar to a trusted URL, but have subtle differences. Doppelganger domains are used to trick users into visiting a malicious website...
CyberCamp

CyberCamp

Nearly a decade ago I was approached by a defense colleague with this crazy idea of creating a high school cybersecurity summer camp program. We knew it would be a lot of work, but we also knew there was a very real need in our industry: we just don’t have...
Common Sense Security

Common Sense Security

The occurrence of data breaches has been on a continual rise over the past 18-24 months. Some of this is arguably due to increased reporting, but what about the rest? How do some of the largest companies in the world manage to get breached by so-called “advanced”...
Adaptive Password Policies

Adaptive Password Policies

Stanford recently published a new security policy allowing their users to choose length over complexity.  Password complexity has always been the go-to answer for creating secure passwords. Of late, there has been a big push to change that; and for good...