Solutions: vCISO Program

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7 Steps to Keep your Catholic Diocese Secure

Michelle Drolet

Religious organizations, Houses of Worship (HoWs) and missionaries (schools, hospitals, non-profits) often carry a false notion that they are at least risk of cyber-attacks (compared to ordinary businesses), because they are not involved in buying and selling of commercial goods and services. Contrary to this popular belief, cybercriminals have been regularly targeting churches, catholic organizations, and even the Vatican.

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Towerwall Cybersecurity Services Now Available on AWS Marketplace

Michelle Drolet

BOSTON – August 31, 2021 – Towerwall, a 25-year provider of cybersecurity services for emerging to mid-size enterprises, today announced it has teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to list its array of data and IT security services and onsite deployment of Virtual Security Officers on the AWS Marketplace. Towerwall is one of the

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When In Doubt, Hire Virtually: Making The Case For Virtual Security Expertise

Michelle Drolet

Modern cyber threats are growing in scope, cost and complexity. Hackers are continuously evolving their tactics to execute breaches, hold businesses at ransom and steal intellectual property. Globally, cybercrime is estimated to cost $10.5 trillion annually by 2025. To put things in perspective, the combined revenue of the world’s largest tech companies, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet and Facebook,

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5 Cybersecurity Events that Keep CEOs up at Night

#Cloud & Network
#Phishing
#Ransomware

Michelle Drolet

With ransomware and phishing attacks on the rise, companies must continuously focus on cyber risks to protect assets and customers. Covid-19 forced organizations to evolve their business models overnight. The demand for digital infrastructure has skyrocketed and industries are seeing large-scale adoption of work from home. Unauthorized software, unsecured devices, stressed and distracted workers have

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VCISO: A Pragmatic Path To Cybersecurity In Pandemic Times And Beyond

Michelle Drolet

Covid-19 has disrupted our lives and caused a lot of stress and panic globally. Even though lockdowns may be relaxing, cyber-attacks are showing no signs of slowing down. The pandemic has created the perfect environment for hacktivists to strike with a high degree of success. Let’s understand the top five reasons for this: 1. Expanding

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8 Security Strategies for Unmanaged Devices

Michelle Drolet

Click Here to Watch the Webinar Now > View the Presentation >   About the Webinar Enterprises face an exploding number of unmanaged and IoT devices on their networks, and cyber attacks are increasingly targeting these vulnerable devices. Join Armis and Towerwall to learn about 8 ways that you can secure your enterprise from these

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10 Things I Know About… Cybersecurity trends

Michelle Drolet

10) Data breaches. Nearly 5 million data records are lost or stolen worldwide every single day, or 58 records every second. According to an IBM report, the average cost of a data breach is $7.3 million. 9) Machine learning will play a bigger role in cybersecurity. Because the battle against cyber criminals moves so rapidly,

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Scan the Dark Web for Threat Intelligence

Michelle Drolet

It may be possible to glean valuable security insights by monitoring the dark web. Although awareness of the importance of cybersecurity is spreading, the number of successful cyber-attacks continues to grow with every passing year. Globally, almost 1.9 billion data records were compromised in the first half of 2017, up 164% compared to the last

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Application security is maturing, but independent testing is crucial

Michelle Drolet

Skills shortage is making shift to continuous appsec testing challenging. While application security (appsec) is firmly on the radar, most organizations still have a way to go before they can be confident about how secure their apps are. Devops is accelerating the speed of development and, coupled with the shift to the cloud, it’s creating

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