NetStandard’s Security Minute Series This week was Patch Tuesday! Microsoft released patches for 58 different bugs (the smallest number in a year!), but called out 4 as being especially noteworthy – an actively-exploited zero-day, two remote code executions, and a denial of…

Consider keeping your business safe with email filtering Trickbot Targeting Legal and Insurance Providers One of the most active sources of malicious emails over the past couple of years has been Trickbot. Trickbot has been a major target from Microsoft, and went dormant…

NetStandard’s Security Minute Series An interesting thought I read in a book the other day: “You win more by not being stupid, than you do from being smart.” This is very applicable to cyber security. Cyber criminals are most often…

Is your overall business risk mitigation strategy and crisis management policy to ensure continuity and capability evaluated, in case the event of something (else!) unexpected occurs? With the recent SolarWinds attack, the impacts of cybersecurity and breaches are back in…

If 2020 taught us one thing, prepare you and your business for the unexpected. Now that 2020 is in the rearview mirror, we turn our attention to 2021 and a goal of transitioning again to a new normal in our…

ould SolarWinds Hack Affect You and Your Business?  This week, you’ve likely heard the news about SolarWinds being hacked – potentially exposing up to 18,000 organizations. Most worryingly, a number of US Government agencies have seen evidence of malicious activity,…

Verify it’s you! Have you ever been on a website, and when you log in, it texts you a code you have to type in for “verification”? Of course you have, we all have. By this time, in the year…

“Plans are useless, but planning is essential.”– President Dwight D. Eisenhower  This past year has presented us all with a unique set of challenges driven by the COVID pandemic. Although many of the changes in technology we have experienced this…

If you walk away from your desk, even for a brief moment, do you lock your computer? You may not think it’s a big deal, but leaving your computer unlocked is a lot like leaving your car running with the…

Don’t Be Caught Without A Backup Plan Just two days ago, the multinational technology conglomerate, General Electric (GE), announced that it had experienced a security incident and that the personally identifiable information of its current and former employees, had been…