Last Friday the world experienced widespread computer outages as a direct result of a broken update from the cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike reported that there were over 8.5 million Windows devices impacted and emphasized that this was a result of a problem update and not the result of being victims of a cybersecurity incident.
Huntersville, NC, November 16th, 2022—JSCM Group, premier cybersecurity experts and industry leader, announced today the successful completion of its 2022 Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type 2 examination, which ensures compliance with the leading industry standards for managing data.
You will be hard pressed to find people asking the IT department for tighter security controls that affect them and how they do their work. So, it is likely that if a request comes from the executive office to implement tighter security controls, what they are really wanting is to implement tighter security controls on everyone else and in the background.
I thought this week I would recommend a great new book by Brian Krebs called SPAM Nation. If you ever wanted to know why we deal with SPAM and malware this is the book to read. He goes into the reasons why, who is buying these offers, and what the business model is.
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