The Rise of Mobile Malware
Smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices have become ubiquitous in our society over the past few decades, leading to a world where many of us have one in our possession at all times. The sheer...
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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.
What Can You Do to Avoid a Cyberattack?
On July 2nd 2021, the threat group REvil launched a targeted attack against the users of the Kaseya VSA product, a remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool many organizations and MSPs leverage to...
Passwords Are Dead, Long Live Passwords
As always, World Password Day is a great time to review our personal password management and hygiene practices to ensure we are safely and securely interacting with internet connected platforms and...
Protecting Your Data in the 2021 Digital Landscape
Every week, we see more and more headlines about websites and services being hacked and their data being breached. This week alone, more than 23 million records for over 66,000 users were leaked...
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...
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...