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Shimming Is The New Skimming
“Shimming is the new skimming”, according to a Better Business Bureau (BBB) post last week. What’s this all about? Credit card skimmers were and still are molded plastic overlays that criminals place around point-of-sale (POS) terminals. They steal magnetic card information from unsuspecting consumers. To combat skimming, engineers from Europay, MasterCard and Visa (hence, EMV)…
How To Help Your Customers See The Value Of Cybersecurity
Managed service providers (MSPs) have a difficult job. In addition to providing clients with the typical products and services you would expect, they also have to compete against other MSPs offering cybersecurity and other services that are attractive to end users looking for comprehensive services. At Cyberstone, we want to help MSPs offer everything that the…
What Educators Need To Know About Cybersecurity
Steven Miller, Digital District’s Director of Cybersecurity, once said that on a scale of zero to 10, with 10 representing districts that had adequately protected their networks and databases, the nationwide score would be somewhere between zero and one. It’s unfortunate that educational institutions are behind in terms of their cybersecurity, but it’s hardly surprising…
The Benefits Of Working With Cyberstone
You have a lot on your plate as an MSP. Your clients have outsourced most, if not all, of their IT-related needs to you, and they expect to benefit from some level of security, even if you don’t offer more than standard cybersecurity services. You’re also competing in a crowded market full of MSPs who…
The Offense Of Positivity
Gary Vaynerchuk recently said, “I want to be on the offense of positivity.” There is so much negative noise on TV, on the radio, and on social media. But it’s not true that negativity is more commonplace than positivity, just that those with a negative voice are speaking more frequently and louder. At Cyberstone Security,…
Efficiency
Your time. It’s precious to you, so it’s important to us. That’s why at Cyberstone we’ve created a set of templated cybersecurity pro service SKUs. These SKUs enable us to rapidly turn around proposals for you. During each discovery call, we map your customer’s needs to the appropriate SKUs, then turn around a proposal the…
Cyber Risk Bootcamp Video Now Available!
Many thanks to partner Cooperative Systems in Connecticut for putting on a Cyber Risk Bootcamp event. The event at The Hartford Club on February 15th was eye-opening for attendees and presenters alike. We all learned that cyber risk needs to be addressed through (1) good upfront engineering with security best practices in mind, (2) regular…
Federal Cyber Workforce Talent Shortage
The United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) admits to a massive skill shortage in “information technology, cybersecurity and other cyberrelated work roles.” Given that government systems and data are specific targets of enemy nation states, we’re glad the OPM at least realizes there’s an issue. To keep a beat on the issue, the OPM…