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Today is “Safer Internet Day” and I couldn’t let such an amazing made up holiday go by without giving you some of my favorite personal security tips.  Enable Two Factor Authentication.Google, Facebook, Twitter and hopefully your bank all offer two factor authentication.  Enabling it adds an extra layer of security to help protect your accounts. Be Smarter About Your … Read more

“If it isn’t documented it cant be a procedure” is what I told a coworker in the meeting before I went to have lunch with a mentor I have had since I was in high school.   Today he shared with me his completed “Mission, Roles and Goals” worksheet.  I was impressed with his and I … Read more

How long have you done your job?  How much does that experience mean to your career? I saw this old Dilbert comic this week and it reminded me that I have been doing network security for about 20 years and cut my teeth securing NT 4 and NetWare servers.  I know that if I don’t … Read more

If you didn’t have an account hacked in 2014 (you probably did) you will in 2015.  Here are my best tips to help protect yourself online in 2015: Enable Two Factor AuthenticationOne of the smartest things you can do to protect yourself online is to enable 2FA on all your accounts that offer it.  I … Read more

As 2014 draws to a close here is a (not nearly complete) list of the lesson I learned this past year: Ignore the sign: Jump in the bouncy castle. There are two ways you can look at your life: What happened to you or What you did. You only get to pick one.If you want the truth ask … Read more