3 min
Cybersecurity
NCSAM Security Crash Diet: Wrap-up
Wow, it’s November 7 already, and I still have all my National Cyber Security
Awareness Month [https://www.dhs.gov/national-cyber-security-awareness-month]
decorations up! I really need to take care of those. But, before I get to taking
down all my 2FA authentication token lawn decorations, I figured it’d be a good
time to chat it up with Olivia, and see how her NCSAM crash diet went.
Tod: So, over the course of the month, what’s the one task you performed that
benefited you the most?
Olivia:
2 min
Cybersecurity
NCSAM: How Hackable Are You?
Rapid7 partnered with The Today Show to offer a fun, fast self-assessment quiz to determine individual cybersecurity risk levels. How hackable are you?
5 min
Cybersecurity
NCSAM Security Crash Diet, Week 1: Maintenance
One of Rapid7's employees tries a month of different 'security diets' in the spirit of National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Week one highlights the importance of maintenance.
4 min
Research
NCSAM: The Danger of Criminalizing Curiosity
This is a guest post from Kurt Opsahl [https://twitter.com/kurtopsahl], Deputy
Executive Director and General Counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
[https://twitter.com/EFF].
October is National Cyber Security Awareness month and Rapid7 is taking this
time to celebrate security research. This year, NCSAM coincides with new legal
protections for security research under the DMCA
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and the 30th anniversary of the
3 min
Cybersecurity
National Cyber Security Awareness Month: The Value of Vigilance
Today is the last day of October 2013, and so sadly, this is our last NCSAM
primer blog. We're hitting on a number of potential threats in this one to help
drive the core point home – users need to be vigilant, not just with regards to
their physical security, but also the security of their information and the
systems used to access and store it.
For those that are new to this series, a quick recap – every week this month we
have created a short primer piece that could be copied and pasted into
4 min
Cybersecurity
National Cyber Security Awareness Month: Avoiding Cloud Crisis
As you'll know if you've been following our National Cyber Security Awareness
Month blog series, we're focusing on user awareness. We belief that these days
every user in your environment represents a point on your perimeter; any may be
targeted by attackers and any could create a security issue in a variety of
ways, from losing their phone to clicking on a malicious link.
Each week through October we've provided a simple email primer on a topic
affecting users' security. We hope these emails