I have been talking over the past year about “Hardening Active Directory”. In those discussions, we have been talking about implementing a granular password policy so that you K-2 students have a lower password requirement than your financial and guidance users.
Welcome to the second installment of, “Weekly Tech Tidbits”. This week I am going to answer a very common question, “Why do we have to remove local Administrator rights to workstations?” The answer is quite simple. Almost every single attack on your network begins on a workstation.
Welcome to the inaugural edition of CSI’s “Your Weekly Tech Tidbit”. Building on Scott’s ever popular Tech Tidbits portion of our quarterly Tech Talk / SYSOP meetings, each week either Scott or I will be sharing a timely thought for the week based upon what we see happening in IT that is of relevance to […]
Reuters reports, “A bill proposed in Congress on Wednesday would require the U.S. National Security Agency to inform representatives of other government agencies about security holes it finds in software like the one that allowed last week’s “ransomware” attacks.
Systems Affected Microsoft Windows operating systems Overview According to numerous open-source reports, a widespread ransomware campaign is affecting various organizations with reports of tens of thousands of infections in as many as 74 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Russia, Taiwan, France, and Japan.
The US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin provides a summary of new vulnerabilities that have been recorded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Vulnerability Database (NVD) in the past week. The NVD is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) / United States Computer Emergency […]
Apple has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. A remote attacker may exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Apple security pages for the following products and apply the necessary updates: macOS Sierra, Security Updates(link is external) iOS(link is external) […]
**Due to overwhelming demand Cisco has changed their plans and graciously agreed to hold a second Cisco Security session in the afternoon. The content is identical for each session** Security is the hot topic these days. If you have attended one of our most recent Tech Talk or SYSOP sessions, you have heard Bob speak […]
We are excited to be hosting two additional vendor informational seminar events in our office. Tuesday November 15th 9:30-12pm – Cisco Security Wednesday December 7th 9-12pm – Nimble Storage Solutions We will post complete details for each event shortly, but we wanted to make sure you knew they were added onto our calendar.
