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How to Prevent Privileged User Account Breaches
Today’s Blog is brought to you by Ryan Conley, an Account Executive at Brite Computers. Most big breaches over the past 2 years can be tied back to mismanaged privileged account credentials. In the Target breach, someone had gained access to a privileged account through their HVAC contractor. Home Depot fell prey to a similar attack when a hacker used a person’s username and password to gain access to the network…
Top 7 Security Concerns of 2017
A common New Year’s Resolution is to be vigilant against advance security threats. Fulfilling that resolution each year requires a more comprehensive approach as technologies evolves and attack methods become both more sophisticated and prevalent in our lives. As the new year begins, most organizations are putting their plans and tools in place to meet…
See the forest for the Trees
The human nervous system includes 5 senses with a dedicated sensory system for each. While all important to our personal lives, Sight is probably most important in the professional lives of information security and technology staff. To make informed decisions, we need to See everything connected to the network and understand the meaning of critical…
How are you controlling BYOD devices?
Seeing is believing, control is even better. It is no secret that the number of connected devices has and will continuing to grow at an explosive rate. Gartner estimates by 2020, the number of connected devices will exceed 20 billion. For me, it is pretty easy to believe their estimate. Like most people, I…
The New Generation of Criminals
You turn on your computer and find a notice that all your files have been encrypted and will be destroyed unless you pay a ransom. There’s a clock ticking down the seconds. Your files are being held hostage and so is your organization. Paying ransom is the least of your worries; the biggest cost to your business will be the…
Top Attacks and Breaches for the week of March 14th to 20th
One of Brite’s partners, Check Point, complied the a list of Top Attacks and Breaches that took place last week, March 14th – 20th, 2016. Cyber threats transform at a rapid rate. Yesterday’s technology may not protect against tomorrow’s attacks. Fortunately, Brite has many partners that are continuously developing new technologies to protect your data. Click…
Rochester Security Summit: Jonathan Borgesen
The countdown is on! The Rochester Security Summit is 26 days away, and this is the first edition of Rochester Security Summit Thursday. Every Thursday until the event, we’d like to give you a bit of what conference attendees will experience. First, let’s talk about the theme of this year’s event. The theme of this…
Mistakes Happen: Sharing Sensitive Data With the Wrong Person
We’ve all made the mistake. The dreaded “Reply All” button response that was meant for one person but sent to the entire office. Mistakes happen and a small one like that is nothing to fret over, other than the potential awkward conversation in the hallway. Of course, there’s always the bigger mistake. Sharing sensitive company…
Why Fixing Security Vulnerabilities Sooner, Rather Than Later, is Important
Getting your education takes a long time. Securing a home loan tends to be a longer process, as well. Both make sense and are commonly referred to as “the way it is.” What doesn’t make sense is the information that was revealed in NopSec’s 2015 State of Vulnerability Risk Management. Summed up: Remediation issues are…
5 Reasons Switching to a Managed Services Provider Makes Sense
You’re an advertising agency. You’re a manufacturing plant. You’re a hospital. Every day you go to work, you want to do work in the fields you’ve selected because that’s what you’re passionate about and it’s what you’re good at. For this reason, many companies are moving away from simple service level agreements to deeper-level, more…