CyberSecurity

Keep computers and mobile devices safe: Plain Dealing

Vestige Chief Technology Officer, along with other Cleveland IT security Experts, provide expert tips on keeping your computing experience safe.

Incident Response – Case Studies

By Greg Kelley, BS, EnCE, DFCP

This blog wraps up our series on Hacking and Incident Response with 4 interesting case studies, including one on Phishing.

Remediation from Data Loss

By Greg Kelley, BS, EnCE, DFCP

Paths to consider to once a data breach has occurred.

Recovering from a breach

By Greg Kelley, BS, EnCE, DFCP

A guide to thoughts and considerations on what to do when you find out you’ve been breached and what is going to happen in the investigation process.

Target breach leaves customers vulnerable to phishing threats

Vestige Chief Technology Officer offers a number of solid recommendations for protecting personal information in the event of a credit card data breach in this article from Sheryl Harris of the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Pre-Breach Assessments

By Damon Hacker, MBA, CCE, CISA, CSXF, RP

Every organization is faced with data breach risk. To get that risk as low as possible, learn the importance of Pre-Breach Assessments.

Data Breaches and what to do to be prepared BEFORE you are breached.

WEBINAR We looked at pre-breach readiness, best practices for what to do during a breach and then reviewed the important factors that can be gleaned from a post-incident forensic analysis.

Incident Response | Data Theft

By Greg Kelley, BS, EnCE, DFCP |

You can’t pick up a newspaper today or hit the home page for your favorite news source without reading an article where you have a company that was hacked or had some sensitive data exposed.  It has sadly become almost as constant as death and taxes.  Case in point, Target made just the type of news it didn’t want to during the holiday season – a season that reflects heavily on a retailer’s bottom line.

LogParser is your friend

By Greg Kelley, BS, EnCE, DFCP |

Learn the benefits of Microsoft Log Parser — a free tool that is very handy for parsing event logs, web server logs and traversing file systems to get directory listings.