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Cybersecurity Executive Session Takeaways

Michelle Drolet

Thank you to all that joined us at our Cybersecurity Executive Session this past Thursday. It was an amazing event with great discussion from industry leaders. A huge thank you to our presenting partners: MassBay Community College, Alert Logic, Sentinel One and Proofpoint. As in years past, all proceeds of the event will go to

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Urgent Vulnerability Notice: Critical Zero-Day Vulnerability Found in Mitel VoIP Appliance ERS

Michelle Drolet

What You Need to Know: A ransomware attack was deployed against an unnamed target, using Mitel’s VoIP appliance an entry point. CVE-2022-29499 is actively being used by attackers to achieve remote code execution and to gain initial access to their victim’s environment. The vulnerability is rated 9.8 in severity on the CVSS vulnerability scoring system.

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Urgent Vulnerability Notice: VMware Vulnerabilities Found in Multiple Products

Michelle Drolet

What You Need to Know: Today, VMware issued patches for two security flaws discovered in Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager, and vRealize Automation. The vulnerabilities are tracked as CVE-2022-22972 and CVE-2022-22973 and could be exploited to backdoor enterprise networks. The first vulnerability, CVE-2022-22972 has a critical CVSS score of 9.8 and is an authentication bypass

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Why Penetration Testing Is Increasingly Relevant Today

Michelle Drolet

Think about this for a moment — global CEOs rank cyber risk as a top concern ahead of macroeconomic volatility, health risks, climate change or even geopolitical crises. What’s worse, they represent organizations that are deploying top-tier security tools, teams and security measures. So where is everyone going wrong? Truth is, cybersecurity is more than just committing

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ISO 27001 Certification: What It Is And Why You Need It

Michelle Drolet

Organizations collect, store and process vast amounts of data today. Employee information, supplier information, customer information, intellectual property, financial records, communication records—all common types of data that ordinarily exist in almost every business. When organizations fail to secure or protect this data, it exposes them to a host of business risks like breaches, financial losses,

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Michelle Drolet Recognized as Part of the Security Industry Association’s 2022 Women in Security Forum Power 100

Michelle Drolet

BOSTON, March 10, 2022 (Newswire.com) – Towerwall, a cybersecurity preparedness and consulting services firm, today announced that its Founder and CEO Michelle Drolet was named to the inaugural SIA Women in Security Forum Power 100 honoree list sponsored by the Security Industry Association (SIA), a trade association for global security solution providers with over 1,200 member companies that help

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Urgent Vulnerability Notice: HermeticWizard, HermeticRansom, and IsaacWiper Target Ukraine

Michelle Drolet

What You Need to Know: This week, ESET researchers discovered three new cyberattacks against Ukraine: HermeticWizard, HermeticRansom, and IsaacWiper. There is a new exploit, HermeticWizard, which spreads HermeticWiper across local networks via WMI and SMB. HermeticWizard is a worm that was deployed on a Ukrainian system on February 23, 2022. The malware starts by trying

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Budgets Point To Where Security Priorities Are Heading In 2022

Michelle Drolet

Businesses are gearing up for another bumpy year of cybercrime. An ongoing barrage of phishing and ransomware attacks, third-party breaches like those involving Log4j and SolarWinds and the surge in remote work are but a few of the many reasons why almost 80% of security leaders still lack confidence in their cybersecurity posture. In response, a majority of them are planning to significantly

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Log4j: Five guidelines for detection and prevention

Michelle Drolet

FTC warns businesses that failure to address critical vulnerability could result in legal action. On Dec. 9, the Apache Software Foundation issued a Log4j security alert that a vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228), aka Log4Shell, allows unauthenticated users to remotely execute or update software code on multiple applications via web requests. On a scale of severity, the NIST has graded

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Towerwall Supports Women and Minority Students with Donation to Lauro Garner Cybersecurity Scholarship

Michelle Drolet

This holiday season, we are proud to announce we have made a donation to a new scholarship fund aimed at supporting young women and minority students to pursue rewarding careers in cybersecurity. Long-time colleague and client, United States Air Force Veteran, Saeed Garner, Director of Information Security for Christian Care Ministry, founded the newly established

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Cybersecurity Executive Session Takeaways

Why Penetration Testing Is Increasingly Relevant Today

ISO 27001 Certification: What It Is And Why You Need It

Michelle Drolet Recognized as Part of the Security Industry Association’s 2022 Women in Security Forum Power 100

Budgets Point To Where Security Priorities Are Heading In 2022

Log4j: Five guidelines for detection and prevention

Towerwall Supports Women and Minority Students with Donation to Lauro Garner Cybersecurity Scholarship

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