Kategori: Cyber Security

For decades cyber security professionals have been addressing the issues of employees bringing their own devices to work. Called BYOD for “Bring Your Own Device”, IT departments have dealt with employee phones, tablets, and laptops. When an employee brings a device to a workplace there are many potential issues. For instance, does that device have […]

Cnet reported in early March of this year that a flaw had been discovered in the ROM (Read-Only Memory) of many of Intel’s processor chips. The issue was announced in May of 2019 but updated in March. Many users have asked me how a processor could have errors in its functions. Processors have had errors […]

Have you ever seen a movie or TV show where a good guy or a bad guy enters an office or hotel room, sticks a USB drive into a computer, and very quickly extracts all the information from the computer? Believe it or not, that kind of attack has a name: it is an “evil […]

Before I get started, the information and ideas in this post apply to virtually all topics. It is intended as a followup to the earlier post on cybersecurity frameworks but can stand completely alone for those who are interested in other areas. Selecting Training In terms of delivery, an online course is significantly different from […]

We’re facing unprecedented changes to social norms during the global coronavirus pandemic, including how and where we work. Mandatory social distancing means we’re working from home, even in organizations that previously didn’t embrace remote working or distributed teams. This new reality will bring permanent changes in attitudes towards remote work, and we need to shift […]