No one was more surprised than me. This was my first time with an adaptive test and I was glad I’d been given a sense of what to expect. It seems like it pretty quickly figured out what areas I seemed to know (or at any rate, be able to guess right on) and moved […]
Stupid Human Tricks w/ Email
There are so many ways bad actors try to trick us… And email is a very valuable target. BEC is a very lucrative (maybe the most lucrative!) common computer crime currently. (hey, 4 c’s in a row!) The FBI lists it as a huge loss vector. It’s a simple but devastating trick – just get […]
Setting Expectations via Cost vs Reward
Fantastic article by Douglas Ferguson in Dark Reading about the challenges CISO’s face in the C-suite area, battling for money. The challenge of IT and infosec is often that, if things are going well, it’s tough to get investment from higher up to KEEP them going well. After all, if you give an increased budget […]
Comptia Cybersecurity
Really enjoyed earning a CEU from Comptia by watching (actually re-watching, cause first time I saw it we had a thunderstorm and power went out 3 minutes before end of presentation and I didn’t get credit) the Comptia ChannelCon State of Cybersecurity talk. Some of the points that caught my ear were One speaker posited […]
Move Over, Caching
I listened to a few downloaded youtube videos (sort of a choose your own adventure poor man’s podcast) while I was on a recent road trip. They were by Miriam Schwab, and one was about speeding up your site, (and so was this one) and a very approachable one was about securing your site. I […]
Easy Way to Link to a Specific Spot on Someone’s Site
Probably everyone else remembers how to do this, but I didn’t, and if it helps even one person I’ll be glad. Suppose you’re writing a blog post, and suppose you want to link to a nice useful chart on a page in someone else’s site. It’s very easy. Step 1, create the link in your […]