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Thomas Jefferies

If you’ve spent any time paying attention to security technology, you will undoubtedly have heard the term “SIEM,” or Security Information and Event Management. For a time, this term was used to refer to simple centralized log aggregation and monitoring, but SIEM products have matured alongside technology advances. SIEM now includes detailed log analysis and […]

Phishing isn’t really a new threat – it’s something that has existed in many forms since the very beginnings of commercial availability of e-mail. By all rights, it’s truly just an extension of social engineering – pretending to be someone or something that you’re not in order to gain unauthorized access to information or credentials […]

In February 2017, a security researcher and white-hat hacker published information about a set of side-channel/speculative execution attacks that impacted approximately 20 years of Intel and AMD CPUs (among others), allowing for protected memory restrictions to be bypassed by a targeted malicious attack. These vulnerabilities were labeled SPECTRE and MELTDOWN and received a large amount […]

Building a secure environment is a constant balance between usability and protection – additional security controls often add steps to the day-to-day of the very people that the controls are intended to support and protect. That’s why it’s important to recognize and elevate the security controls which provide major benefits at a minimal impact to […]

Botnet attacks exploit Internet of Things devices. Learn how to improve IoT security for internet-connected devices against botnet attacks that exploit your IoT device security.

The last few months have seen a resurgence of the CryptoLocker/Cryptowall ransomware malware across many IT organizations. This malware is particularly impacting and has cost many companies significant time and money, and in some cases has caused the permanent destruction of business critical information and documents.