CyberSecurity

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

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.

Proactive vs Reactive CyberSecurity

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

When it comes to IT security, once security has been breached the costs of not having adequate security is always astronomically higher than you originally imagined.