Cyber Smokejumping is a decades-old practice of intentionally investing time with peers to help them overcome cyber risk. Our global, massively interconnected Digital Society requires increased cybersecurity capabilities, capacity, habits, and practices spread worldwide. Putting up cyber walls and layers of defense will not help if other parts of the world are getting infected and
Category: Security, Resiliency, and Scaling
Leveraging Cyber Civil Defence
The cyber civil defence services provided by the Shadowserver Foundation are the most overlooked and critical tool for securing your network. If you are a cybersecurity professional and NOT signed up to Shadowserver, you are missing details that will protect your network from the next attack. If you want a quick introduction to Shadowserver, check Read More
Optimize Shadowserver’s Value – Checklist
Optimize Shadowserver’s value! Stop the Threat Actors! You are at risk if you get any of the +120 daily reports. Most issues are easily fixed. All these reports share details the threat actor can potentially exploit. Take 15 minutes once a quarter to update your contacts, ASNs, IPs, Domain, APIs, and other details. Quarterly Reviews Read More
My Birthday Wish is for you to be Cyber Safe
To all those who pinged me via social media, thank you for remembering me on my birthday. I hope the year will be prosperous, connecting, and loving for all. Some people ask what is my birthday wish. This year (like last year), Digital Safety “self-care” actions. These “self-care actions” will help protect you, your family, Read More
Thanksgiving Holiday Fun! Five Eyes Warn of LockBit 3.0 Ransomware!
Do you know if your network is vulnerable to LockBit 3.0 Ransomware crew getting into your network via NetScaler CVE-2023-4966 vulnerability? Boeing – a company with a powerful cybersecurity team – was penetrated by the LockBit crews using CVE-2023-4966. Is this your Thanksgiving holiday fun? For those subscribed to Shadowserver free Cyber Civil Defence reporting, Read More
Protecting BGP Sessions – Step-by-Step Guide to Prevent an Easy DDoS
Organizations are not protecting their BGP session. Take the time to ask the question …. Do we have our BGP ports protected? Are you: If not, work with your peers to deploy an Infrastructure ACL (iACL) to cover all your network devices, deploy specific data plane ACLs on your routers/switches to protect them, work with
Qakbot – it is not over yet!
Get the free Shadowserver special report to see if Qakbot was on your network. If yes, the bad guys could still be on your network. Read More
Why are the top National Security Teams Yelling for you to Fix your Network?
The top National Security Teams are yelling at you to fix your network. The Joint Advisory is not a simple act of collaboration. The first 12 are highlighted for a reason. We do not know the insider reasons other than they are ACTIVELY EXOLIOTED with NOT ENOUGH ORGANIZATIONS MITIGATING that are PUTTING ORGANIZATIONS at RISK. Read More
Secure Coding? Don’t get Stuck!
We now have static application security testing (SAST) deployed. All should be good. No, all is NOT Good! The most challenging parts of any SAST tool deployment are the initial shock of potential vulnerabilities, coding errors, and risk. When I come into an organization for an audit, it is common to find their SAST tool Read More
CISOs, get your First Sergeant
Behind Every Effective CISO, a First Sergeant is Clearing the Path for the organization’s success. The way we’re setting up our CISO structure is NOT working as expected. The threats keep on coming. Organizations put their fingers in the dike, plugging security risks while exhaustingly bailing water from a sinking boat. This is a no-win Read More