The Ransomware Task Force calls out MSPsThe Ransomware Task Force, which is a public-party coalition, has shared a framework for actions to... By: Dave Sobel/April 29, 2021/Business Strategy, Newsletter, Regulation, Security
New York State Department of Financial Services: Use Zero TrustThe New York State Department of Financial Services released a report on the SolarWinds attack. This... By: Dave Sobel/April 28, 2021/Newsletter, Regulation, Security
Norms and standards around cyber press forwardReactions have come in from the foreign policy experts to last week’s move by the Biden... By: Dave Sobel/April 21, 2021/Newsletter, Regulation
NATO ups their warfare gameNATO has conducted its first wargame exercise that includes cyber risk. Per the Wall Street Journal,... By: Dave Sobel/April 19, 2021/Newsletter, Security
Amazon’s racial and gender dataAmazon has released data on their racial and gender makeup. As of Dec 31, the company... By: Dave Sobel/April 16, 2021/Diversity, Newsletter
The FBI accesses Exchange Servers proactivelySo… the FBI got court approval to access Exchange Servers around the US that were vulnerable... By: Dave Sobel/April 14, 2021/Newsletter, Security
The supreme court rules on Google and Oracle relating to APIsLet’s lead with the biggest tech news – in a ruling Monday, the Supreme Court found... By: Dave Sobel/April 6, 2021/Newsletter, Regulation
PHP hacked, CompuCom’s payback.. and a hacker pays backToday also appears to be security day, so let’s hit three more. In another supply chain... By: Dave Sobel/March 29, 2021/Newsletter, Security
Slack rolls back Slack Connect DMSo yesterday I talked about Slack’s new Connect option, and I classified it as a Business... By: Dave Sobel/March 25, 2021/Newsletter, Security
The hackers get a bit of payback in aftermath of SolarWinds and Active Directory/M365 CompromiseLet’s update quickly on the SolarWinds and Active Directory/M365 Compromise. The new name is courtesy of... By: Dave Sobel/March 22, 2021/Newsletter, Security
Physical security gets a hard lookHere’s a collision of physical and virtual security. Activist hackers have breached live surveillance cameras installed... By: Dave Sobel/March 11, 2021/Newsletter, Security
Nine Objections to my eCommerce marketing video addressedI did a video that got a lot of attention about using eCommerce in marketing. Lots... By: Dave Sobel/March 8, 2021/Newsletter
An increasing reliance on IT service providers?I didn’t start with this… because it’s from January and I didn’t spot it! I didn’t... By: Dave Sobel/March 1, 2021/Newsletter, Security
NSA releases Zero-Trust reference architectureThe National Security Agency has issued their information sheet with instructions for defense agencies and contractors... By: Dave Sobel/February 26, 2021/Newsletter, Security
Four reasons for Zoom fatigue and how to address themNews you can use – Stanford researchers now telling us why Zoom fatigue is real. There... By: Dave Sobel/February 25, 2021/Business Strategy, Newsletter, Product & Company Updates
The 25×25 initiative gets movingThe Silicon Valley Leadership group, was announced last month with a 25×25 initiative. What’s that? It’s... By: Dave Sobel/February 23, 2021/Diversity, Newsletter
French IT Providers breached – a notable similarityLet it not be said I don’t pay attention to other countries on this show. The... By: Dave Sobel/February 16, 2021/Newsletter, Security
State law roundup – IT services companies careNot broadband… but like that California net neutrality law, this is about state laws. In Maryland,... By: Dave Sobel/February 12, 2021/Newsletter, Regulation
Water plant breached in FloridaI’m really longing for the days when the hacker stories were just ransomware. Widely reported today,... By: Dave Sobel/February 9, 2021/Newsletter, Security
Yet another tech worker unionThere’s another tech union to watch. Technology industry workers have formed a new labor union as part... By: Dave Sobel/February 5, 2021/Business Strategy, Newsletter, Regulation