We predict that multi-factor authentication (MFA) will become a standard security control for midmarket companies in 2020. Whether it’s due to billions of emails and passwords having leaked onto the dark web, or the many database and password compromises online businesses suffer each year, or the fact that users still use silly and insecure passwords, the industry has finally … [Read more...]
$98 Million Spent Just To Replace Credit Cards in 2018
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...]
