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Protecting PHI, Challenges and Solutions for Healthcare
/by Nate L. Cash, Senior Director, Federal Professional Services/ Director of Information SecurityWhat is data worth? On the surface, it is just a bunch of 1s and 0s on a hard drive. Most users don’t think about or even fully understand data. Their cell phones work, email is at their fingertips, and a friend is just a video chat away. But, enormous companies are built using […]
Keep Up with the Basics
/by Dr. Mike Lloyd, CTO, RedSealI just came across a WSJ Pro article titled “Inside the NSA: Companies Need to Follow the Basics,” and figured I could offer an “amen.” The NSA gets points for seeing things clearly – but then, I suppose that is their job, whether we like it or not! The area they discuss isn’t easy to write […]
Vulnerabilities: The Weeds of Your Digital Terrain
/by Jeff GreeneIn the warmer months when I’m not traveling I often get up early and wander my property pulling and spraying weeds. This is an endless and thankless task, yet a necessary evil to preserve my investment and maintain appearances. I am amazed how quickly weeds grow and by the places they find purchase. In […]
Advice from Hackers at Black Hat
/by Nate L. Cash, Senior Director, Federal Professional Services/ Director of Information SecurityAt the recent Black Hat USA conference, CIO asked 250 self-identified hackers for their opinion on security solutions. The answers are a good indicator for what works to protect your organization. Of all the technologies out there, the responders identified multi-factor authentication and high-level encryption as the two that are hardest to get past […]
Defense Medical Communities Face Digital Resilience Challenges
/by Matt VendittoLast week in Orlando, I attended the Defense Health Information Technology Symposium (DHITS) conference. This is one of the best attended, most cohesive trade shows I have been to in years. One of the eight break-out tracks was entirely devoted the challenges of securing defense health networks and the medical devices that connect to […]
Accelerate Incident Response and Investigations
/by Nate L. Cash, Senior Director, Federal Professional Services/ Director of Information SecurityKnowing which hosts are involved in a security incident is critical information for anyone who is an incident handler. The quicker the attackers and their targets can be identified the quicker the incident can be stopped. Collecting this information from a plethora of systems and log sources can be difficult and time consuming. Compounding […]
Digital Resilience Helps Mitigate or Prevent the ExPetr/NotPetya/ GoldenEye Malware
/by Emil Kiner, Sr. Product ManagerWhat is it?
The most recent malware campaign hitting Ukraine and the rest of the world is a wiper style malware which is packaged with several propagation mechanisms including the same weaponized Windows SMBv1 exploit utilized by WannaCry. What was initially thought to be a variant of the 2016 Petya […]
How Digital Resilience Can Help Prevent or Mitigate the Impact of a WannaCry (wcry) Ransomware Infection
/by RedSealVIDEO: How Digital Resilience Can Help Prevent or Mitigate the Impact of a WannaCry (wcry) Ransomware Infection
/by RedSealDoes Your Company have a DFARS NIST 800-171 Time Bomb?
/by Wayne Lloyd, Federal CTO, RedSealOn December 30, 2015, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) published a three-page interim rule to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), revising its earlier August 2015 interim rule on Safeguarding Covered Defense Information.
This new interim rule is a ticking time bomb that gives government contractors a deadline of December 31, 2017 to […]