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Secure your Experience Cloud 

Aloha trailblazers! With the rise of digitalization, the demand for advanced solutions has surged, leading to the inception of the Secure Experience Cloud. This powerful Salesforce feature allows external or unauthenticated users to access a subset of your data securely. While advantageous, this functionality carries the risk of potential security threats, which can be mitigated […]

CyberSecurity Hackers and Attackers

Types of Hackers When it comes to hackers, the term often brings to mind images of malicious cybercriminals breaking into systems and stealing sensitive information. However, not all hackers fit this stereotype. In fact, there are several different types of hackers, each with their own unique set of skills and motives. In this blog post, […]

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A Quick Introduction to CyberSecurity

Why Is Cybersecurity so Important? Cybersecurity is critical for businesses, organizations, and individuals in today’s digital age. With the increasing reliance on technology and the internet, the risk of cyber-attacks has never been greater. Cybersecurity protects computer systems, networks, and sensitive information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction. Important Aspects of Cybersecurity […]

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Are You and Your Company Fully Inclusive: Things I’ve Learned from Being Friends with a Very Special Person.

I’m pretty sure you and your company do not discriminate anyone by their race / sex / religion / sexuality / social background / physique. Do one thing for me and ask yourselves this question; are we really prepared to welcome anyone to our homes and offices? Think about it twice, hint: “I can get there on […]

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Don’t Panic: Log4Shell

2021-12-29: Updates related to CVE-2021-44832 2021-12-20: Updates related to CVE-2021-45105 We, like many of you, have spent our weekend and the start of this week triaging the risks posed by CVE-2021-44228 (aka Log4Shell). As we’ve been checking and patching our internal systems, products and client systems, some colleagues and I have made a few observations […]

Bank Regulators Seeking Comments on the Use of AI and ML in the Industry

Background: The five federal financial regulatory agencies are gathering insight on financial institutions’ use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). The five federal agencies are: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Reserve Board (Fed), the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) and the Office of the […]

Phishing Attacks – How Your Old Passwords Can Come Back To Bite You

As a security professional, I spend a considerable amount of time building awareness around good password hygiene, and I am starting to see forward progress in efforts like moving users away from short passwords to longer passphrases.  But even as we are moving towards better password selection, most people don’t know that their old passwords […]

Kali Project Encryption and Isolation Using Vagrant and BitLocker

Imagine that you work on different engagements or projects in which Kali Linux is one of your primary tools.  Furthermore, maybe you also have the need to keep the data for each of those projects isolated from the others – in other words, you need to avoid cross-contamination between your projects.  In this article I […]

6 Reasons to Use Azure Active Directory

Azure Active Directory, commonly known as Azure AD, is “Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management service.1” It is a widely used IDaaS (identity and access management-as-a-service) that can integrate with an existing (or new) MVC-style web application, Web API, mobile app, and more to provide quick and easy authentication. I am no salesman (although it […]

Top Five Concerns For FSIs Include Cyber Risk And Today’s Election

According to a survey conducted by The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, 56% of respondents rated cyber risk a top-five concern, while 22% indicated it was their biggest concern. 50% of respondents said that the outcome of today’s presidential election is a top-five […]

Cyber Security Awareness Month brings plenty of awareness

October 1st marked the beginning of the United States’ National Cyber Security Awareness month.  Three days into the month, awareness is exactly what we have. Last week, Experian and T-Mobile announced a significant data breach.  What’s worse is that the hackers were able to maintain the breach for over two years.  T-Mobile CEO John Legere, […]

IBM expands its tech, Big Data training efforts in Africa

IBM plans to pour more of its technical wisdom into the world’s second largest and second most-populous continent. The multinational tech company has announced it will spend $60 million over three years on expanding its technical training efforts in Africa. Central to this expansion will be a special partnership between IBM and an online education […]

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