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By: Dean Buczek Each news cycle seems more troubling than the last. You can’t open a web page or read a news story without seeing another company suffering from a data breach that’s exposed petabytes of sensitive user data, like credit card information or users’ names and passwords, or hearing about how vulnerable our critical…

Dean Buczek-Security Engineer at iSECURE, LLC Recently I was asked my thoughts on this article: https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-my-ISP-is-spying-on-my-web-browsing-Does-DuckDuckGo-fix-that/answer/Gabriel-Weinberg A summation of the article is that your Big Bad ISP is spying on you and DuckDuckGo can help stop it. Well, both of those statements are only partially true. Can your ISP tell what web sites you’re visiting?…

 The Life Cycle of a Firewall Stages 1 – 4   The idea of firewalls hasn’t been revolutionary since the 90’s. With that said, they improve overall security posture by providing full visibility into users, devices, applications, and threats on the network. Next Generation Firewalls also have the ability to apply advanced threat protection anywhere in your…

10 Reason Why You Need an iSECURE Pen Test Overview: A penetration test, or pen-test, is an attempt to evaluate the security of an IT infrastructure by safely trying to exploit vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may exist in operating systems, services and application flaws, improper configurations or risky end-user behavior. Such assessments are also useful in…

Kevin Wilkins CISSP – Chief Technology Officer I ran into this one while reading the daily rags. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/brand-connect/siemens/cyber-defense/#/ They mention security fundamentals and a security standard (ISA/IEC-62443, formerly ISA-99) targeted to Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS)/SCADA. They also mentioned a watering hole attack where equipment vendor websites are hacked then seeded it with malware. …

Donna Smith – Director of Marketing Sorry to say, if you missed out on attending our 2017 WNY Cyber Security Conference & Westchester NY Cyber Security Conference last month, you missed a lot! We had some of our BEST speakers yet, discussing some of today’s (and tomorrow’s) hottest security topics including IoT, grinding, train hacking,…

Annette Warren – President/CEO I don’t know if you feel like this but, 2017 is flying by! I can’t believe it’s already August and back to school is just around the corner. As time marches on, I always talk about my daughters because I’m so proud of their journeys. The three of them are such…

Kevin Wilkins CISSP – Chief Technology Officer Gizmodo reports that a security researcher called DirectDefense discovered sensitive information uploaded to VirusTotal by Carbon Black endpoint agents. http://gizmodo.com/top-security-firm-may-be-leaking-terabytes-of-confident-1797667775 So, Carbon Black does cloud-based scanning.  Lots of security tools do this.  But what happens to that data to keep it private in the cloud?  In this case…

Kevin Wilkins CISSP – Chief Technology Officer Ransomware attacks are still talk of the town – and with good reason.  They’re disruptive, destructive, expensive, and embarrassing.  An attack against a vulnerable organization can bring that company to its knees. The low-hanging fruit of file shares are first to go, and if the malware has worm…

My name is Michael Schade and I am currently a 3rd, almost 4th year, Computing Security student at Rochester Institute of Technology. Being from Long Island, distance did not stop me from following my passion of technology and going to a school that would give the me opportunities of a lifetime. The experiences that I’ve…