The Importance of Quality Security News

When it comes to security and IT often what's the case today may not remain so tomorrow. Take for example wifi, for the longest time the WPA2 standard was thought to be secure. I know many people that relied upon it as their single metric of securing data, while we always recomend the use of defense in depth as a means for reducing total risk exposure there is an argument to be made that their trust had not wrongly been placed in the WPA2 standard, after all it had been considered secure for years up to this point, and by the attacks they are most likely to face it still was right up until it wasn't.

See the main risk that the typical user faces from exploits derived from newly discovered vulnerabilities isn't in the attacks that happen the same hour it's released, or the day of, or (for the typical business) even the week of, but rather it's the attack that comes weeks or months down the road when the issue still has not been resolved that truly is the risk they face. The important thing to keep in mind is that when it comes to emerging tech trends it's possible to be covered one day, and not the next.

For this reason we recomend strongly that any business that relies on computer systems to continue operations make monitoring cyber security developments a administrative priority, fortunately there are resources out there that you can use to help in your evaluation of risks. The best recommendation that I can make for our readers is that they strongly consider subscribing to US-CERT.gov for weekly and urgent updates, and consider carefully how each might impact their organization based in it's severity rating, subscribe to our website and check back often for updates, and monitor major tech news outlets for information on a regular basis.