The IT Department Dream Scenario Imagine your CIO has the following information at his or her fingertips: Exactly how many machines are in their environment All the vulnerabilities for each device All the available patches A list of priorities to show which issues are most critical And what else could complete this dream scenario? For any patch that isn't available or installable, the team has a mitigation plan to address it. Are you already living the dream? Or did you just realize your vulnerability management isn't up to snuff? Keep reading and we'll explain how CIOs can sleep easier at…
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Phishing is a form of attack that often uses email to get access to your company’s data. The emails are designed to get the victim to feel compelled to take action so that they will hand over sensitive information or download malware to give the attacker access to all sorts of data, records, and more. There are a few precautions you can take to avoid such attacks.
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Even though your home network is not a corporate network you are still at risk for cyber crime and attacks. Whether it is a crypto virus locking up your family photos or attackers stealing your payment information, there are real reasons to want to protect your home network. Jeremy went into it a bit in our last blog about network segmentation. While this is just one thing you can perform as a home network protector, there are other steps you can take to ensure you are doing the best you can to keep your family's information safe. Some of these items are easy for the…
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Alpine Cyber Solutions is a proponent of well-planned and executed application of cloud computing as an enabler for a company to improve its security stance. We spend quite a bit of time trying to convince people that this class of technologies is the financial and technological future of IT. We have already written about some misconceptions you and others may have about the cloud. There are definite challenges to moving a large datacenter and all of its applications to the cloud. But there are plenty of well-trodden patterns in place that make it achievable and immediately beneficial for companies who can see past…
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This is the third article in our 10-part series for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Look for new cybersecurity topics explained by Alpine Cyber experts every Tuesday and Thursday in October. About Your Recent Amazon Order Did you order something from Amazon lately? If so, the following email would look right at home in your inbox: The savviest user can look at this and know that it belongs in the trash can. It doesn't show anything about the order items, the email is from a phony domain (amazon-shipping-updates.com) and most importantly when you hover over the link you'll see it's…
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