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New Foreseeable Threat Index Newsletter

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Cindy Kaplan2024-07-03T20:24:52+00:00Tags: due care model, foreseeable threat index, FTI, FTI heuristic, threat index newsletter|

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Vulnerability Scans and Risk Assessments: Know Your Audience

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Cindy Kaplan2026-01-16T22:08:11+00:00Tags: cyberattack, network appliance, reasonable security, Risk Assessment, risk rating, Security Event Management, security plan, SEM, vulernability scan|

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We Just Gave Away Our Cyber Security Intellectual Property. It was the right thing to do.

Why a Chicago-Based Cyber Security Firm (more…)

Cindy Kaplan2026-01-16T22:03:57+00:00Tags: Center for Internet Security, CIS, CIS Controls, CIS RAM, Critical Security Controls, Cyber security, DoCRA, due care, duty of care, duty of care risk analysis, intellectual property, multi-factor balancing test, negligent, reasonable security, SANS top twenty|

What are Smishing Attacks and why are they Increasing?

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Cindy Kaplan2025-06-19T20:10:50+00:00Tags: data breach, Pen Test, remote social engineer, smish, SMS mobile, SMS phishing, SMS text, Social Engineering, social engineering attack|

Why the Meltdown/Spectre Vulnerabilities are Important to You

Two distinct vulnerabilities dubbed Meltdown and Spectre potentially affect almost (more…)

Cindy Kaplan2024-08-13T19:34:20+00:00

8 Things to Help Make This Year’s Penetration Testing a Success

8 Things to Help Make This Year’s Penetration Testing a (more…)

Cindy Kaplan2025-07-15T21:09:00+00:00Tags: Cyber security, pen testing, penetration test, reasonable security, vulnerability assessment|

VULNERABILITY N+1

As Americans, we love lists.  That fact is self-evident when browsing our favorite (more…)

Cindy Kaplan2025-06-19T20:12:46+00:00Tags: InfoSec, malware, OWASP, ransomware, risk, vulnerabilities|

Evolution of Phishing Attacks and the Billions it is Now Costing Corporations

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Cindy Kaplan2025-06-19T20:14:29+00:00Tags: BEC, business email compromise, cyber, penetration testing company, Phishing, phishing attack|

Simple Ways to Prevent Multi-Million Dollar Losses from BEC

In February of 2016, Fischer Advanced Composite Components (FACC), an Austrian (more…)

Cindy Kaplan2025-07-09T18:58:32+00:00Tags: Phishing, phishing attack, wire transfer|

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EMPLOYEE SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS MAKING YOUR NETWORK VULNERABLE?

Social media seems (more…)

Cindy Kaplan2025-07-09T18:59:42+00:00Tags: Phishing, phishing attack, Social Engineering, Social Media, Spear Phishing|