Security

IT Pros and Pirates

09/10/19 Ah yes, it’s IT Pro Day again – very soon! Each year, on the third Tuesday of September, we celebrate the unsung heroes of IT. Well, someone did sing, but that’s a differe…

6 Risk Management Best Practices You Can Implement Today

08/29/19 Understanding risk management (and why it’s important) as I highlighted in my last post, Why Risk Management Is Critical to Your IT Infrastructure, is essential as you beg…

2 Key Assets in the Government’s Cybersecurity Battle (Part II)

08/27/19 Read part one here. Technology: Providing the Necessary Visibility Cybersecurity personnel can’t succeed without the proper tools, but many of them don’t have the technolo…

Data Tampering: The Quiet Threat

08/23/19 For decades, data tampering has been limited to relatively simple attacks, like data corruption (which is immediately noticeable) or “cooking the books” to hide embezzleme…

2 Key Assets in the Government’s Cybersecurity Battle (Part I)

08/20/19 The Trump administration issued two significant reports in the last couple of months attesting to the state of the federal government’s cybersecurity posture. The Federal …

Maintaining a Secure Environment: Understanding Its Components

08/19/19 In the previous blog, we discussed how defining use cases mapped to important security and business- related objectives are the first step in building and maintaining a se…

Maintaining a Secure Environment: Use Cases Build a Security Policy

08/12/19 Security is a key operational consideration for organizations today because a breach can lead to significant losses of revenue, reputation, and legal standing. An entity’s…

The Soft Skills Gap Is Real; Nontechnical Skills Needed By Every Federal IT Pro

08/06/19 Today’s federal IT pro has a broad range of responsibilities and corresponding talents. The need for a multidisciplinary skillset is only increasing. As environments get m…

Patch Management Best Practices – Why Does Patching Hurt So Much?

08/05/19 Guys, you need to patch your stuff. In April, I had the opportunity to talk to IT pros at four different trade shows. That’s right, four in a month! I’ve been to Germany a…

Making Every Agency Employee a Security Advocate

07/30/19 The rising numbers of data breaches should come as no surprise to federal IT security pros who work every day to ensure agency information is secure. However, these breach…

Using Our Brain (a Reflection on FaceApp and Harry Potter)

07/29/19 The summer is full of important dates, from national holidays to family vacations to birthdays and anniversaries big and small. In a few short days, one such birthday is c…

Why Investing in Software Security Is Worth It

07/18/19 Let’s walk through a typical IT software project. As the IT software project is planned out, the security of the software and the data the software contains is accounted f…