“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” -Albert Einstein “You live in a world of illusion Where everything’s peaches and cream. We all face a scarlet conclusion, But we spend our time in a dream.” -Jungle Love, Steve Miller Band Ignorance is not bliss when it comes to network security.

I remember those days when the Apple folks would scoff at having to have antivirus. Macs were superior, and Windows devices had all those problems. The technical folks knew that was marketing blather vs. sound security advice. The reality has always been that “everything can be hacked.

Today’s cyber landscape feels a lot like this picture. Anyone who uses a device connected to the internet is under threat. You never know when that arrow with your name will find you. Do you have the armor you need to give you the best chance of survival when the arrow finds you? Medieval warriors […]

You arrive at work tomorrow and are greeted by the news that a cyber-attack has compromised your district’s network, and the network is unavailable. What is the first thing you do? What is the second? When confronted by such alarming news, most people would be overwhelmed and unsure of the next steps.

I read the other day that today is “Worldwide Backup Awareness Day.” I have no idea who declares these days. I am guessing you already know you should have good backups and air-gapped backups. However, I am taking the liberty of morphing this into more sophisticated forms of backups.

Here is my “Top 5” list to up your cybersecurity defenses: Make sure that whatever your current endpoint protection strategy is, it is 100% in place. There are always better tools. However, repeatedly, the attackers are exploiting gaps in your cyber defenses.

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There is a new, growing attack surface that is becoming increasingly dangerous to your network operations—the cloud, specifically your Google Apps or Microsoft 365 cloud instances. I have read commentary that M365 is believed to have the greater attack surface.

Welcome back! This summer flew by, and my summer vacation seems like a distant memory. In my 44 years of helping schools open for the new school year, this one was different. Several districts suspended all major work the last week of August. This was a summer of busy projects.

A year ago, my very short wife sat in a restaurant during March Madness on a bar stool that was too tall for her. The result was that while getting down off the stool, she blew out a disk in her back and was in tremendous pain. We went to a local ortho walk-in clinic.