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5 Reasons for Confidence in U.S. Cybersecurity
Author: Justin Fimlaid Through three decades of increasing cybersecurity challenges and growing numbers of publicly disclosed events, there are solid reasons to have confidence that the United States will remain a leader in cybersecurity. Few countries can approach...
How the Chaos Theory Can Impact Your Cybersecurity Budget
Author: Justin Fimlaid Effective cybersecurity is an accumulation of many small actions performed properly. When you apply chaos theory, beneficial impacts can be traced back to small changes to the initial state, but too often I see organizations making big...
Using Chaos Theory to Guide Strategic Cybersecurity Decisions
Author: Justin Fimlaid Chaos theory is a branch of mathematics that studies the behavior of dynamic systems that are highly sensitive to both initial conditions and the most minor changes to those conditions over time. This is also referred to as the butterfly effect....
The Top 8 PWNED Episodes of 2022
Author: Justin Fimlaid When we started PWNED in 2018, our goal was to connect with cybersecurity leaders and enthusiasts by producing a weekly podcast to address real-world security challenges. Since then, we’ve created 160+ episodes and are frequently in the top 100...
Announcing the Almanna Cyber and NuHarbor Security Polyglot Challenge
Author: Jack Danahy It’s time to find common ground and a common lexicon to simplify security operations and decision-making. The cybersecurity market is probably one of the most innovative and fractured in all of technology. Unlike those in storage, processing, or...
Transformative Leaders are the Key to Success in SLED Cybersecurity — Get the Full Report
We spent the past year surveying senior leaders, analysts, and experts, identifying trends and successes that are defining a new generation of cybersecurity visionaries within the SLED community. During this research, it was clear that the characteristic that defines...
Improve Your Argument to Move Past Cybersecurity FUD
In the past year, we saw tremendous growth in cybersecurity, with many new professionals entering our industry. Looking to 2023 and beyond, I expect even more growth. It’s always interesting to see newcomers find their own position on cybersecurity drivers, many of...
Risk Assessments in Everyday Life
Risk Assessments in Everyday Life At NuHarbor, our Security Advisory experts specialize in risk assessment and consciously think about risk every day. Sometimes this is good, like when a friend extends the invite to go cliff jumping or skydiving in Mexico. Other...
The Path to Improve Your Application Security Posture
“Software is eating the world.” – Marc Andreessen (Wall Street Journal, 2011) Application security (AppSec) is the most misunderstood and underserved security challenge facing every organization, security team, and developer. No matter your perspective, the perceived...
Recruiting Your Best Security Partner
When an organization reaches a certain size or adopts a more strategic role for security in their planning and operations, they look for a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) who can act as an advisor and a bridge between cybersecurity teams (and challenges) and...
Three Steps to Relieving the Cybersecurity Workforce Skills Gap
Across all industries, workforce recruitment and retention are more challenging than they’ve been in decades, with the total unfilled job vacancies in the U.S. more than double what it was 10 years ago. In cybersecurity, this problem has been well-documented for over...
NuHarbor Security Recognized in 2022 Splunk Public Sector Partner Awards
NuHarbor Named Public Sector Cloud Partner of the Year Winner for Outstanding Public Sector Performance Colchester, VT – June 15, 2022: NuHarbor Security, the industry’s most comprehensive managed security provider, announced today it has received the 2022 Public...
NuHarbor Strengthens Partner Ecosystem With Strategic Addition of Zscaler
The Addition of Zscaler Supports Joint Efforts to Provide Clients With a Zero Trust Framework to Meet Government Security Standards Colchester, VT – June 1, 2022: The industry’s most comprehensive managed security provider NuHarbor Security has strengthened its...
Ubuntu Server Hardening Guide
Original Author: Hunter Gregal Updated By: Justin Fimlaid ***NOTICE*** To those reading this... 3/8/22: I think *most* of this information is still good but please be cognizant of the Ubuntu version numbers. There's some great comments at the bottom about additional...
Sharing Threat Intelligence is Caring — Unless it’s with the Person Attacking You!
For as long as I've been in Cybersecurity, we have this "thing" about sharing threat intelligence. In State and Local Government, this is even more apparent, as the public sector leans towards being fairly collaborative. In this community, there are two main drivers...