Author: Jackie Visnius

Effective May 1, 2021, the CISSP certification exam will be changing as part of (ISC)2®’s effort to ensure continued market relevance for their certifications, as well as align with new knowledge and the latest best practices. As (ISC)2’s first Premier Global Training Partner, Learning Tree and our expert instructors want to help you prepare for […]

What is Social Engineering? A hacker who uses social engineering effectively  preys on people, not technology. A few common practices include: Researching targets on social media to get personal data such as birthdays, addresses,  and historical information that may be used to  answer security questions. Calling customer service representatives for service providers an individual works […]

It’s a Tuesday afternoon, the office is bustling, your servers are down and your tech team is stumped. The phone rings – the call you’ve been dreading. Your data and critical servers have been compromised. The attackers are demanding a hefty fee to undo the damage. It’s a scenario that has played out thousands of […]

Security is a critical issue surrounding the BYOD landscape, but the issues have changed a bit in the past few years as the trend has evolved. A few years ago, discussions tended to center around the fact that BYOD was coming and organizations had to start preparing for it. Now it’s here, and it’s time […]

What is Thinking in the Security Context? One of the biggest challenges organizations face as they strive to safeguard sensitive information is habituating employees to “thinking in the security context.” This mindset requires workers to be perpetually cognizant that every task they perform, from Internet downloads to paper recycling, has the potential to create corporate […]