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How To Avoid Hiring Paper Tigers
Paper tigers may be scarier than the real thing because they are killing the cybersecurity industry so you need to avoid hiring them.
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The Secure Methodology™ Step One: Awareness
We are complex, and our behaviors demonstrate this repeatedly. We’re not always susceptible to how we behave and its impact.
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Remote Work Is Here to Stay: The Impact on Cybersecurity
In the rush to remote enable staff, we know cybersecurity was an afterthought. Many organizations hobbled together different technologies.
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Why Geeks Need EQ and Leadership Skills
Simply being smart won’t cut it - geeks also need leadership skills that can be derived from emotional intelligence.
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Top 10 Organized Cybercrime Syndicates
In this blog post, we discuss ten of the most notorious organized cybercrime syndicates and how they operate.
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The Secure Methodology™ and Cybersecurity Leadership
The Secure Methodology is a step-by-step guide to help us improve our skills so we can easily practice honest and effective communication.
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The Confidence-Competence Loop
There is a correlation between confidence and competence; not an A-to-B correlation. These two conditions reciprocally lead to each other.
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3 Steps to Hide Data in an Image Using Steganography
In this post we'll explain a simple method to hide data (any type of data - text, image, malware, etc.) in a JPEG.
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2 Simple Ways to Extract GPS Coordinates from Images
In this post, we'll cover two simple ways to extract Exif (Exchangeable image file) data, which includes GPS coordinates, from images.
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Top 10 Penetration Testing Decision Factors
This article contains ten items you should consider when selecting an organization to perform a penetration test against your environment.
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The Cybersecurity Gender Gap
When it comes to the numbers of women in cybersecurity, we’ve got good news and bad news. The bottom line is we need more women in cybersecurity.
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Cheating Cybersecurity Exams: Paper Tigers
Cybersecurity exam cheats (aka paper tigers), cost everyone - the company issuing the test, those offering credentialing, and the cybersecurity industry at large.
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6 Famous Hackers that Got Caught
The best hackers we never hear about. Here are the stories of six of the most famous hackers and how they were caught.
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Penetration Testing History
The concept of penetration testing has been around since human beings first began trying to understand their enemies' thought processes.
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Leetspeak: The History of Hacking Subculture's Native Tongue
You've probably seen leetspeak, also known as 1337 or “l33t,” somewhere on the Internet or in a movie about computer hacking.
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Tips for Certified Cybersecurity Professionals to Find Jobs
I share three methods to empower you to find your ideal cybersecurity job, leveraging your CISSP (or any other) cybersecurity certification.
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LinkedIn Tips for a Better Cybersecurity Job
Land a new, exciting, and better cybersecurity role by enhancing your LinkedIn profile with these supercool tips.
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Hacking Medical Devices for Profit and Terror
Covers background on why medical device security is something to pay attention to, the four attack objectives, and solutions.
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Cybersecurity Risk Needs to be Simplified
Complexity is the enemy of execution. Unnecessary complication is tied to ego & lack of clarity. In cybersecurity everything is overly complicated.
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Questions to Ask a vCISO
Many companies rush into finding fractional vCISO services and end up with a relationship they did not expect. Ask the right questions first.
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Top 10 Largest Healthcare Data Breaches by Number of Records Stolen
Healthcare data breaches have increased in both scale and regularity during the last decade, with the worst affecting up to 80 million people.
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Understanding the 6 Human Needs To Become a Better Technical Leader
Most leaders fail by trusting that intelligence alone can resolve issues. We forget we are working with people who, just like us, have needs
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Explanation of Cybersecurity Hashing and Collisions
This post is a transcript of Christian Espinosa's explanation of cybersecurity hashing and collisions, including an MD5 collision demo.
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Explanation of the Cybersecurity CIA Triad
This post is a transcript of Christian Espinosa's explanation of the cybersecurity CIA triad including the opposite, DAD.
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