Immediate and Effective Incident Response
It’s 3:41 a.m. on a Tuesday and the phone rings. You answer, wiping the sleep from your eyes, and are greeted by one of your security analysts telling you, “We have an active, organization-wide...
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Thomas Jefferies
Thomas began his professional career with iVision in 2013 with a focus on end user experience and ITIL based IT process. His prior experience with cross-practice Infrastructure and deep interest in IT security supported his transition in 2015 to a practice management role over iVision’s emerging Security practice, with a primary focus on developing and delivering end to end security processes, policies, and solutions using a wide array of technologies.
Vulnerability Management and Patching
It’s 2020, do you know where your vulnerabilities are (and when they’ll get patched)? There have been several high-profile vulnerabilities in the news recently, like Microsoft’s wormable DNS...
How to Keep Video Collaboration Secure During COVID-19
Virtual collaboration is nothing new, but the current coronavirus outbreak has significantly increased the need at organizations for remote tools. Companies are coping with the migration of their...
Vulnerability Management: New Year, Same Story
It may be a new year, but 2020 didn’t wait long to remind us that it’s still business as usual in the world of critical security vulnerabilities. January already saw critical vulnerabilities in a...
The Cybersecurity Labor Shortage is Real – What Can You Do?
A Cybersecurity Labor Shortage Continues The increased prevalence of data theft and security breaches across almost all industries continues to show that threat actors are becoming more pervasive and...
SIEM Capabilities: Monitoring and Detecting Potential Risks
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...
Phishing and Spear-Phishing – If it didn’t work, they wouldn’t keep doing it …
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...
Meet PortSmash, everyone’s favorite new side-channel execution attack.
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...
3 things EVERYONE can do to enhance security without ruining productivity
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...
Security in an IoT World
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...
The Persistent Threat of Ransomware
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...