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...
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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.
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...