October, 2022
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Shadow IT and Rogue Applications
Authored by Lindsay Timcke
The last ten years have shown an unprecedented growth in application development and deployment. Presently there is pretty much an application for anything and everything you can imagine. From a corporate standpoint what this has led to is a dramatic increase in groups or even individuals within companies purchasing software that meets their department needs. Over time this application will grow in size and complexity while the user community and importance to the group for completing their daily tasks will also increase. From a compliance and audit standpoint the above introduces many points of concern.
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Vendor Management – Outsourcing the Task, Not the Risk
Authored by Lindsay Timcke
One of the most overlooked areas of Cybersecurity and creating a solid defensible cybersecurity posture for your firm is vendor management. With most firms in the 21st century being heavily invested in relationships with outside vendors who monitor, develop, deploy, extract, and oversee many aspects of our network infrastructure, it is imperative that each firm approach these outside resources as just an extension of their own organization. This means the controls you have in place at your organization should also be in place at each of your vendors.
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Microsoft 365 Security: Is Your Organization’s Data Safe?
Authored by David Sun
Microsoft 365 came of age just as organizations quickly adopted remote work during the pandemic. In their urgency to migrate, many IT departments did not have the time to fully research the new platform and all its security features, opting to use the default settings. Once migration was complete and systems running reliably, organizations — fearing disruption — may not have gone back to change the settings.
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2022 Cybersecurity Awareness Month at CLA!
Welcome to the 2022 Cybersecurity Awareness Month – “See Yourself in Cyber!”