How much should you spend on cyber defense, recovery, and insurance? A recent research study from WEIS [PDF]—a collection of cyber security researchers—analyzes the costs of cyber crime and how it has changed over the years. While the report mostly covers world e-commerce losses and how governments can combat them, it also reports cyber security trends, and their findings match … [Read more...]
Chinese Hackers Infect 50k Servers
What a headline, huh? That’s quite the number of infected servers found during a recently discovered and tracked malware campaign. At a very high level, this campaign focused on mass-scanning servers for specific services, cataloguing servers that responded, then feeding that list into a password brute force tool. Once infiltrated, malicious payloads were used to perform … [Read more...]
Here’s Why MSPs Will Focus Beyond the Network Perimeter in 2019
The cultural shift toward remote work has been a major catalyst for change among companies across the globe. According to Upwork’s latest Future Workforce Report, a massive 73% of all businesses will have remote employees by 2028. Already, this trend is impacting how organizations approach IT and information security. And, according to a recent Channel Futures article, the … [Read more...]
The Seattle CTO Club ~ Sharing Security Information
Yesterday I had the honor of presenting some security information at the Seattle CTO Club. I loosely based the discussion on a similar presentation I gave last week at an event for Equinox IT, a WatchGuard partner, covering the cyber security landscape and top threats businesses face. Members of the group learned common attack patterns and discussed strategies for effectively … [Read more...]
