George Chanturidze
It’s the final day of the challenge and we are already getting some fantastic feedback from participants about when we will be running this event again! We are hoping very soon with some additional challenges and videos from Mike Vasquez. Big thank you to all of our participants and a reminder to them to finish […] Read More: Day #5 of our Network Defender Challenge
George Chanturidze
Thank you so much for all the feedback and response to our 5-Day Challenge! We are in the thick of day 4 for Admins and Managers! Missed you this time? We’d love to have you participate next time for more chances to win prizes and to become a StormWind Network Defender! http://ow.ly/tGtH30g4XSy For those in […] Read More: Day #4 of our Network Defender Challenge
George Chanturidze
As serendipity would have it, one of the hottest questions on Spiceworks today is “What is a good vulnerability network scanning software?” This coincides nicely with the 3rd Day of our Network Defender Challenge that has Admins running vulnerability scans and Managers analyzing vulnerability policies. There a quite a few options out there for paid or free […] Read More: Vulnerability Management + Day #3 of our Network Defender Challenge
Dan Young
This week the Economic Times ran a fascinating editorial about the mind and behaviors of a hacker referred to as Alok. He has three years experience with a hacker collective on the dark web. He’s secretly wealthy due to the theft and fraud he’s committed as a hacking foot soldier that he can’t share with […] Read More: From the Mind of a Hacker + Day #2 of our Network Defender Challenge
Dan Young
We’re excited to have all of our Admins and Managers participating in today’s Challenge! Today’s task involves thinking and performing reconnaissance like a hacker. For current participants in the challenge, what did you think of the first task? Was this something you’d thought of before? Missed you this time? We’d love to have you participate […] Read More: This Week in Hacker News + Day #1 of our Network Defender Challenge
Dan Goodman
While most people have heard of the Equifax breach, most people out of the IT community don’t realize it was due to an unsecured open-sourced system. While 99% of cybersecurity hacks occur on Windows operating system, that doesn’t stop hackers from taking any opportunity to break into a system. How does cybersecurity work with an […] Read More: Cybersecurity with a Linux Operating System: What You Need to Know
Dan Young
By reading this blog post, you’ve been invited to StormWind Studio’s upcoming QuickCast: 30-minutes to a Less Vulnerable Network with Mike Vasquez. This QuickCast is exclusive to IT professionals.Vulnerability management is an essential element of creating a secure networking environment. Join Mike Vasquez, Senior Technical Instructor at StormWind Studios, as we discuss vulnerability management and […] Read More: 30-Minutes to a Less Vulnerable Network: How to Start or Improve Your Vulnerability Management Program
George Chanturidze
Network security password guidelines IT professionals have relied on for years are just plain wrong. You heard us: WRONG! Creating strong, complicated passwords and changing them frequently doesn’t protect organizations against cybersecurity breaches. This practice makes it easier for computers to hack and harder for humans to remember. If your users use irregular capitalization, special […] Read More: Network Security Breaches: Your Employees Are Lazy
Doug Bassett
“This [cours is going to harden our system, because one of the big problems that we run into, is any time that we’re looking at threats, we forget the number one threat to our company, which is internal employees.” With the average cost of a data breach in 2016 was $3.62 million according to an […] Read More: How to Protect Your System Against Internal and External Threats
Dan Young
Over 14 Million Verizon customer records were left exposed due to poor security checks. For weeks, customer names, account information, and cell phone numbers were left unsecured on an Amazon server. The server was controlled by Nice Systems, an Israeli technology company, which has 85 of the Fortune 100 as customers. Anyone who knew where to look […] Read More: Are You Doing Risk Assessments As Often As You Should? Probably Not.
