Why Cybersecurity is Critical to your Business Continuity Plan?
In 2020, the business continuity plans of most organizations have been put to the test. Many managers are evaluating ways to improve their current business continuity plan, taking time to assess risks we seldom thought about before: When hit with a global pandemic, how will we accommodate for the entire company working from home? When […]
What is Penetration Testing?
Penetration testing is a great first step to for an organization to identify weaknesses in your IT environment. In simplest terms, it’s a test in which our cybersecurity experts will pretend to be a hacker and test to see if there are any areas in your computer system that are vulnerable to threats. The Aurora […]
June Services Updates: Rapid7 & Tenable
Rapid 7 Rapid 7, recently released there 2020 Q1 Report: offering updates on the most severe vulnerabilities of the quarter and the Rapid 7 MDR team’s response to 9 different incidences of publicly facing vulnerabilities. Rapid 7 also explores spear phishing and the impact of credential theft. Aurora’s engineering team can offer services on the […]
CMMC vs NIST 800-171
Are you impacted by CMMC? Aurora can conduct a gap analysis to improve upon your NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC readiness. CMMC, Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, is a model that the Department of Defense has created to ensure that the businesses that work with them are held to a high standard of security. CMMC is […]
What is Phishing?
Phishing is malicious emails used to target companies or individuals in order to access data. They include links or documents to click on that causes you to download a payload. The payload gives a hacker access to your system and your network. Hackers use phishing emails because it’s easy to reach many people with one […]
Lighting up Shadow IT
Securing an on-premise IT eco-system is daunting enough but as users, teams, and organizations start relying upon services (Office 365, Google, Azure, AWS) in the cloud, the task of securing corporate data over unsanctioned data highways starts becoming an overwhelming task. According to Symantec, the average enterprise has over 1,500 cloud apps in use. Roughly, […]
Top 7 Reasons Why DLP is Important for a CSO
Top 7 Reasons Why DLP is Important for a CSO 47% of enterprises losing data in the cloud at one time or another Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is set to become front and center again for every Chief Security Officer (CSO)! You may be asking why? This is because it will enable businesses to protect […]
Password Protection Tips
Password security is key to keeping your information safe from hackers. It is one of many preventatives measures you can take to protect yourself and your business! In this area of so much hacking and breaching of data we want to make sure you know some key points about password protection! Five Things to Know […]
A word from the CEO, Volume 5: “Cybersecurity & Valuations”
Recently, I attended a local CEO peer group in which the conversation gravitated towards the topic of exit strategies. Many business owners think about how they would eventually exit their business; some actually formulate a plan while most figure life and business will take it’s natural course. As the conversation continued we agreed that […]
A word from the CEO, Volume 4: “One Size Never Fits All..”
I recently saw this great article by a renowned Cybersecurity Strategist out defining the role of a CISO. In a large enterprise these roles could be assigned to a member within a security team, and while not easy, the task could be broken down and addressed. The point however is that security threats do not […]
