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Cybersecurity Awareness Month - People, Process, and Technology
by Geoff Yeagley on October 3, 2016 at 9:49 AM
Welcome to Cybersecurity Awareness Month! As you know, every October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. For me, every month here at Compass is Cybersecurity Awareness Month as we spend a significant amount of time educating and empowering our customers and prospects on how to mitigate …
Infosec and Financial Institutions: New York's Proposed Legislation
by Geoff Yeagley on September 27, 2016 at 1:30 PM
Financial Institutions are critical to the foundation of the economy of this country. If you think about it, financial institutions across the country house the wealth of this country and are always under attack. From true brute force hacking to phishing emails, bad actors are relentl …
Ransomware Update: The FBI is Coming, The FBI is Coming...
by Geoff Yeagley on September 20, 2016 at 1:30 PM
Q: Why was the Computer so tired when it got home? A: Because it had a hard drive While the joke above is pretty funny (at least I thought it was), Ransomware is no joke. I have written several blog posts about Ransomware over the past 9 months and the dangers that these types of atta …
Critical Security Control 19: The Incident Response Plan
by Geoff Yeagley on May 17, 2016 at 12:16 PM
In the world of Information Security, we have all heard of the Center for Internet Security Top 20 Critical Security Controls (CSC's) which is formerly known as the SANS Top 20. This is a list of the 20 IT Security Controls that an organization can implement to strengthen their IT Sec …
Ransomware Alert: Big Business and the Evolution of Phising
by Geoff Yeagley on May 3, 2016 at 1:20 PM
Ransomware is certainly nothing new as it has been around for several years, however, it sure is gaining quite a bit of attention these days. In fact, Ransomware is gaining so much attention that on Friday, the FBI released an article discussing the fact that ransomware is on the rise …
How Phishing Emails Can Cost You $40,000
by Geoff Yeagley on March 22, 2016 at 10:00 AM
To me, math is what makes the world work. If you think about it, just about everything involves math, especially when it comes to business. When I was going through my MBA program, I really underestimated the amount of math and calculations that you needed to perform for essentially e …