User Awareness Program

FREE infotex Webinar – Awareness in All Directions

FREE infotex Webinar – Awareness in All Directions August 23rd 2016 at 9AM EDT Back to the rest of Technology Risk Management, through IT Governance . . . . whether your most likely threat is cyber or non-technical pretext calling, no matter where the risk falls, the numb...

Study Reveals Security Vulnerabilities Common Amongst ALL Websites

Out of 15k websites studied, 50% failed at PCI compliance Troubling results from a study on cyber security show businesses are lacking in basic security. With all the vendor management checklists and to-do’s and SSAE-16 reviews, what assurance do we have that our vendors are...

Ultrasonic Technology Takes Fingerprint Security to the Next Level

Mobile devices getting a boost in security with ultrasonic 3D fingerprint scanner. A new 3D imaging technique of fingerprint scanning, using an ultrasonic sensor, has researchers excited about the prospects of “smartphone security” to another level. We’ve never been enthusia...

Awareness Links!

A throw-back to the nineties! Links from this Website:   The hyperlinks from this website that go to other websites provide content written by third parties not related to infotex. While infotex visits these web pages to review their content, we do not review these pages fr...

The Password Manifesto Revisited

Password aging should be retired, usually . . . There is never 100%, even in manifestos! Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . . So several years back I became known as the auditor who had the audacity to prop...

IBM Discovers Million Dollar Bank Transfer Scam

An article review. The Dyre Wolf Scheme reaches new level of sophistication IBM security researchers have uncovered a new, highly sophisticated bank transfer scheme. It seems to be run by a well-funded group of cyber criminals located in Eastern Europe and has successfull...

Three Quick Ways to Protect Yourself

A Vigilize post . . . Meant for awareness training, feel free to steal for your own awareness content! I have a Client who is big on helping his users “in their personal life.”  He has learned that you can get a user’s attention by talking about their hom...

Keep Your BYOD Policy Updated

An article review. New Device automates iOS Pin Hacking Many companies have Bring Your Own Device policies in place, where employees are allowed to bring their own PCs or mobile devices into the workplace or have business utilities, like email, setup on their personal dev...

Awareness Is Not a Verb!

But “test” is an action verb! and your approach could “Turn Awareness Inward.” Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . . “With all we have going on, our auditors are not letting us a...

Former Anthem CIO Admits a Lack of Awareness Training

An article review. Well, duh . . . . By now we’ve all read the headlines associated with the recent Anthem Insurance data breach. After all, this incident will go down in the record books as being the third largest data breach to date, at least with regard to the number o...