Category Cybersecurity

Importance of Asset Management in Organizational Security

Organizations must take risks in order to operate. Each organization determines what level of risk is acceptable to that organization. This concept is known as risk appetite. Security is the process of examining risk across an organization and taking defined steps to reduce those risks to a level that is acceptable to the organization. Security is NOT the act of…

The Importance of Personal & Corporate Cybersecurity Hygiene

We care for our bodies. We eat. sleep, bathe, brush our teeth, wash our clothes, clean our homes and see doctors as needed in order to keep ourselves healthy. This concept of self-care we call personal hygiene. We practice personal hygiene throughout our lives in hopes of having a long and healthy life. Many of us have pets that bring…

Proper Password Management

Possibly one of the most poorly understood and overlooked problems faced by businesses and consumers is the proper implementation and management of passwords. Typically, access is granted to a system or resource simply by entering a username and password. Usernames are typically email addresses or some combination of the user’s first and last name, so these are easy to guess.…