December 2021: Cyber Deception Month Continues…Halting Holiday Hackers…

Authored by: Gary Miliefsky of Cyber Defense Magazine

Deep fake, dropped USB sticks, free offers, vishing, smishing and deep phishing attacks, smart-everything (weak IoT devices), malicious apps, driveby malware, distributed denial of service attacks and so much more abound in our world – my team and yours is bombarded with this garbage, on a daily basis.  There is one purpose – steal data.  They want identities and they want money.  It’s that simple.  If we don’t stop the bad guys by using Time-based Security, they will deceive us and others we trust and therefore victimize our organizations.  So, continuing on the formulas:

Risk = Threats x Vulnerabilities x Assets

R = T x V x A

To better comply with regulations, you need to better manage, measure and document risk:

• T = The latest Threat Detection/Blocking Tools at near WIRE SPEED…go faster!
• V = The Vulnerability Management offerings to close more holes, smaller exploit surface!
• A = The latest People, Cloud and Endpoint Protection offerings …control access, defend weaker assets!

Pt > Dt + Rt

Et = Dt + Rt

These may be the most important formulas for you as a CISO and/or IT Security staff to know and understand.

For your job security, family, corporate and government data protection, these will be your infosec lifeline.

I’ll explain more in part three of this article/series…

But what about our family and friends on the holidays?

As we continue through our series on Cyber Deception, sponsored by our good friends at Attivo Networks, I can’t help thinking about those who are being victimized right now, as you read this – it could be you, your relative, your children or even their grandparents.  Thanks to the IdentityTheft.gov and our good friends at the FTC.gov, who can help you report and recover from identity theft.  But as the experts in Cyber Deception teach us, why wait?  Let’s get ahead of the problem and defeat the porch pirates and the cyber scrooges.

CYBER SCROOGES

Cyber security expert Gary Miliefsky joins WMUR to discuss best tips and practices for good cyber security as online shopping increases for the holiday season.

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