Jun 24, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Penetration Testing, Tenable, Vulnerability Scanning
By: Justin Fimlaid What is an Exim server? An Exim server is a mail transfer agent used on Linux like operating systems. Exim is a free software and used by as much as 57% of the Internet email servers. Over the past couple weeks it has been noted that a heavy amount...
Jun 17, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Information Security, ISO27001
By: Justin Fimlaid What does it mean when ISO 27001 references an ISMS? An ISMS stand for Information Security Management System. This essentially means that it is a programmatic structure that allows you to build a security framework and controls specific to and...
Jun 10, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Scanning
By: Justin Fimlaid What is SHA-1 and what is the history of SHA-1? Originally SHA-1 was developed as part of a U.S. government capstone project. The first version of SHA was SHA-0 and that was developed in 1993 as the Secure Hash Standard. SHA-0 was originally...
Jun 3, 2019 | Compliance, Cybersecurity, HIPAA, Information Security, ISO27001, NIST 800-53, Payment Card Industry
By: Justin Fimlaid The Ohio Data Protection Act was passed in August of 2018 and went into effect as of November 2018. What’s unique about this data protection law is that it’s unlike recently passed privacy legislation recently seen in California and...
Apr 29, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Tenable, Vulnerability Scanning
By: Justin Fimlaid Are you looking to build your vulnerability management program using Tenable’s products? If so, this is a quick start guide to get orientated with the Tenable.IO suite. What is Tenable IO? Tenable IO is Tenable’s cloud scanner or SaaS...
Apr 22, 2019 | Audit, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Tenable, Vulnerability Scanning
By: Justin Fimlaid Every organization has different needs related to their vulnerability management program. This varies from the scanner used (cloud or on premise), the places where sensors are deployed, the technology environment, and the needs of your vulnerability...
Apr 15, 2019 | Compliance, Cybersecurity, Information Security, Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Scanning
By: Justin Fimlaid If you haven’t heard of it there is a new banking directive in the U.K. called the Open Banking Directive. This directive went into effect on January 13, 2018. It’s significant for U.S. based banks, because this Directive could apply...
Apr 8, 2019 | Audit, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Information Security
By: Justin Fimlaid First things first, if you are interested in elections security have not heard of Estonia’s electronic voting system I’d encourage you do some research starting with this blog post. There is a lot to Estonia’s e-Government initiative,...
