Blog
March 26, 2020
Free Asset Inventory for Healthcare Providers
Post by Jeremiah Grossman
As the world continues to grapple with the effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic, it is infuriating to see cyber-attacks targeting healthcare providers. Already impacted are the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, Champaign-Urbana Public Health District (Champaign, IL), Brno University Hospital (Brno, Czech Republic), Affordacare Urgent Care Clinic (Abilene, TX), Hammersmith Medicines Research (London, United …
March 12, 2020
Coronavirus Opportunistic Domains
Post By Robert Hansen
As with any massive change/panic or revolution— there are always opportunists. We’ve been tracking some of these changes just to see how quickly they change. For instance, if you look at any brand, you can see it ebb and flow over time. Often in tandem with …
March 3, 2020
Equifax’s Lack of Asset Management Was the Cause of Their Breach
Post by Robert Hansen
Equifax’s breach in 2017 was all the information security community could talk about, and it was a household name. This was because of how many US citizens it impacted. It really was a catastrophe for the company’s reputation and put them in the hot seat with consumers. …
January 7, 2020
Why Do We Have so Many Domains?
Post by Robert Hansen
There seems to be some misconception about where domains come from, and why companies buy more than one domain. For instance, why would a company want uk.company.com or company.co.uk instead of www.company.com/uk/? It has been posited that companies do this because IT departments are too daunting/draconian/slow to …
December 15, 2019
Shadow IT and Orphaned IT
Post by Robert Hansen
I was on a call with a rather large enterprise the other day and the topic of finding Shadow IT came up. While I think Shadow IT (IT that no one knows to exist) is a fairly well-understood aspect of computer security, it dawned on me that …