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Threats, Part II: External

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In Threats, Part I, I talked about internal threats—such as current and former employees and subcontractors—who may have ill intent or may just be thoughtless with data. But when it comes to threat assessment, internal threats amount to less than half of your worries. So let’s talk the other side of the equation: external threats. just like for their insider counterparts, you’ll need all the intelligence about them that you can get. Who are they? What are their motives?

Threats, Part I: Internal

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In Asset Classification Basics, I introduced one of the most basic tenets of cybersecurity: if there’s something of value to you (an asset), then it’s of value to someone else. In my business, those “someone else”s are referred to as threats. To get a handle on your specific situation, you’ll need to perform some threat assessments. That may sound like an intimidating term, but it’s fairly straightforward. Threat assessments help you answer two of the most important questions in cybersecurity: who might be coming after your assets, and how might that occur?

Passwords 101

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Like death and taxes, passwords are an inescapable part of our lives these days, both in and out of the office. Did you ever hear the joke about bad passwords? It goes, “I always have trouble remembering my password so I changed it to incorrect. That way, when I enter it wrong, the computer will say, “Your password is incorrect.”