At some point in your life, you probably were locked out of something – your house, your car, your office. I am sure it was awful trying to figure out how you were going to solve that problem. However, to add to your stress, we now have all this sensitive data online and on our […]
Weekly Tech Tidbit – I gotta new phone … oh no! The dark side of multi-factor authentication
Weekly Tech Tidbit – I’m from the state and I’m here to help! – Surviving a technology audit
It is important to have accountability to the taxpayers independently proving that each school district has adequate financial controls in place and is properly managing the money it has been entrusted. In this era of identity theft, ransomware, and electronic financial theft, it is equally important to have adequate technical controls in place to protect […]
Weekly Tech Tidbit – The growing importance of logging in your network security plan
When something goes sideways in our technical worlds some of the first questions we get asked, after “when is XXXX going to be back up”, is “what happened?” and “why did it happen?” For sure if the event in question is a security or data breach event the urgency to answer these questions ratchets up […]
Weekly Tech Tidbit – Important new notice from US-CERT – Actions required to protect your networks
**Note – Client tech directors in Dutchess County got a preview of this Tuesday so if you are in that group you may skip the rest of this note and go on to your next e-mail. For the rest of you please read on** On Tuesday, May 29th, I received an updated alert from US-CERT […]
Weekly Tech Tidbits – Baby steps to better security
We have been discussing a whole lot of security issues over this past year. Many of you are already moving forward to address many of our recommendations. However, some of you are paralyzed in figuring out how to absorb some of the new costs for the new security technologies that your district now absolutely requires […]
Weekly Tech Tidbit – If only we had…. a sharing of lessons learned from those hit with a security incident on their networks
While we can never say, all is well in the world of network security, this week I feel I can write to you about something other than a US-CERT alert. This week’s topic – an interesting Cisco Talos blog post on the top 5 recommendations the Cisco Incident Response Team, looking back over the past […]
Weekly Tech Tidbit – Warning, Warning – Danger Will Robinson – Change your passwords
As I write this, Netflix is bringing back a new version of “Lost in Space”. Hopefully, it is better than the movie and truer to the original series. Bob has been on a roll with US-Cert announcements (danger, danger Will Robinson) about threats the last few weeks.
Weekly Tech Tidbit – The security alerts and warnings just seem to never end…..
Well, it’s time for another Tech Tidbit from me and right on cue another alert from the National Cyber Awareness system run by the good people at the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has come in that I felt really needed to be highlighted for all of you.
Your Weekly Tech Tidbit – The attack of the killer soda machine!
The other day I was sitting in one of our Tech Talk presentations and Bob discussed the importance of Internet of Things (IoT) security. That made me think of the very real incident that happened in 2017 where a University’s soda machines, light bulbs, and other IoT devices created a denial of service (DoS) attack […]
Weekly Tech Tidbit – New Brute Force Attacks using “password spraying” against Internet / Cloud-based services
Many of you may be on the US-Cert alert e-mail list, but I suspect many of you are not. Since most all of you have Internet-facing devices, or even more likely cloud-based applications (Office 365 / Google Apps, at least), I wanted to make certain that all of our clients “heard” the message contained in […]