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This exciting session will be led by Scott Quimby, CISSP, Senior Technical Advisor at Acture/CSI, and Larry Lanigan, Site Leader at Acture with 17 years of experience as a technology professional. What to Expect: 1. “Tech Tidbits” with Scott Quimby.

We are excited to invite you to an exclusive cybersecurity webinar recording led by industry experts at Blackpoint Cyber. ​This is your opportunity to gain insights from experts in cyber defense. ​Agenda: Introduction & Background of Blackpoint – Jamie Ivers, Senior Solutions Advisor SOC Overview – Jason Rathbun, Technical Director of Threat Operations SOC Saves: Real-World Examples – […]

MITRE is a not-for-profit organization that operates federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) to provide technical expertise and innovative solutions to various U.S. government agencies. MITRE focuses on national defense, aviation safety, cybersecurity, healthcare, and more.

Acture/CSI is growing again.  We are looking for high-quality individuals to work with our service delivery team. Please search our Acture/CSI online job database for opportunities in our Albany and Fishkill offices.   Click here and add your resume to be considered for future employment:  Acture Solutions Career Center.

It has been reported that when attackers breach your network, they often first go after your backups in an attempt to corrupt them so that you have no option to get your data back but to pay the ransom. I recently saw some statistics that when they gain access to the backups, they are at […]

We live in interesting times and continue to face some very unique challenges to keep your school district safe and stable so teachers can teach, students can learn and the staff behind the scenes can do all the important tasks that make the district function well.

Please join us *tomorrow – Wednesday, October 12th* for an upcoming webinar focusing on Business Email Compromise. Jason Whitehurst, a cybersecurity professional, will be speaking about the significant increase in business email compromises for school systems.

We always have the Paladin Sentinel Monitoring console up during the day.  I am still seeing mass use of the domain administrator account to RDP into servers and lots of daily RDP connections in general. There are legitimate reasons to RDP into servers.

This month we talked about how the Ukraine situation affects the cybersecurity landscape for the US and what it means for network security. Leading this discussion was Jason Whitehurst, a cybersecurity professional of over 20+ years, and Vince Crisler, former White House CISO and DarkCubed founder and CEO. Scott Quimby had the opportunity to listen […]

Mitre Engenuity has released its 2022 fully independent evaluation of 30 of the most common cybersecurity endpoint protection platforms. Why does this matter? The 2022 assessment and results are particularly interesting because the payload they used is the most common, and nefarious, ransomware and malware variants in use today.