

Cyber-based Armageddon?
"This is something we haven’t seen before; the global reach is unprecedented," said Europol director Rob Wainwright. For those of you that follow the news, you have heard of the massive cyber attack of ransomware worldwide over the weekend. So far this ransomware has a global scope hitting at least 150 countries with hundreds of organizations hit and over 200,000 victims. Security experts fear the outbreak will increase today after employees return to their jobs and access

Where are the Real Vulnerabilities?
Many organizations perform regular vulnerability scans but have a hard time eliminating the vulnerabilities. Many have told me it is like they run a scan, and then they take the report to eliminate all the vulnerabilities and by the time they clean everything up and run another scan and find they have new vulnerabilities. A cycle of reaction follows. The scans are done, reports are giving to system and network admins, they perform the necessary remediation just to start t