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IT Security in the Professional Sports World

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This blog will be the first in a multi-part informational blog series on professional sport team’s information technology (IT) security hurdles and the very public issues that have occurred.

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How Information Security Approach Affects Organizational Culture

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In this technological era where big data drives innovation and companies are expanding the boundaries of their offerings, workforce, and geographic locations through automation, it’s easy to lose sight of some of the more human aspects of organizational operations.

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Defending From Within

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Hackers, Ransomware, and denial of service attacks get all of the attention when it comes to Information Security. However, you will quite often hear IT Security personnel state that the biggest threat to an organization is from within. With this in mind, if an organization’s biggest …

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Information Security - Don't Just Check the Box!

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Compliance and security at times go hand in hand. In most cases, being compliant does not truly ensure you are being secure. I titled this blog “Don’t just check the box!” because the thinking that if your company can check the compliance box it will be secure enough is just not true. …

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The NIST Cybersecurity Framework Functions – Respond

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This is part 4 of our ongoing blog series on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. To view our previous posts in this series, please see the links below: NIST Cybersecurity Framework - Overview and Identify NIST Cybersecurity Framework - Protect NIST Cybersecurity Framework - Detect After …

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WannaCry Lives On! Have we Learned Anything?

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As the one-year anniversary of the most widely spread ransomware attack approaches, WannaCry is still active in the wild. Fortunately, so is the “kill switch” domain, rendering the attack mostly benign. During the WannaCry outbreak MalwareTech, a UK-based researcher, discovered that W …

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