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What Does a Minnesota Cybersecurity Advisor Do?
What is a Minnesota cybersecurity advisor? A partner to come along aside you and your organization to help formulate the most right plan to lower risk and save money for your business. The threats are overwhelming. From access privilege escalation to cross-site...
HIPAA Security for Minnesota Medical Companies
There are a lot of medical companies in Minnesota. We've all heard of the big ones, Mayo, Fairview, Allina, and the Minnesota based medical device company Medtronic. But in addition to all these large companies, there are thousands, of small and medium-size medical...
Five Important Questions to Ask Your CISO
Five Important Questions to ask your CISO Questions unlock answers. But the right questions unlock understanding. When I was starting my company, a coach introduced me to the power of questions and how critical they are. When we work with clients, we have...
Value of a Risk Assessment
I’ve always been troubled with the idea of how to provide valuable cybersecurity services without selling fear. I don’t want to be a fear monger. The answer is to sell logic. There is logic and there emotion. Often times we default to emotion when we don’t know the...
Top Cybersecurity Threats to Manufacturing Industry
The topic of 'risk' and 'threats' can be confusing, and sometimes overwhelming for those that do not spend all their time organizing the uglies of cybersecurity. So before we jump into the biggest threats that the manufacturing industry is faced with let's define...
Biggest Cybersecurity Risks to Manufacturing in 2019
The cybersecurity threat landscape keeps changing. Every day there are new threats, exploits, and reports of breaches. If one thing has stayed the same it's that the threat is real and it's knocking on the door of corporate networks and seeing what can be leveraged...
What Does a Cybersecurity Analyst Do
What Does a Cybersecurity Analyst Do? For more than twenty years, I have been working as a cybersecurity Minnesota consultant in the ever-changing world of technology. Most people have some understanding of the need for cybersecurity. It is rare that much...
How to Use Metrics in Cybersecurity
"What gets measured gets managed," the famous words from Peter Drucker. I've tried many ways of putting metrics around security initiatives. Some have been successful, some have been a failure, the worst have added confusion. Reporting cybersecurity metrics does have...
What is Prescriptive Security – Cybersecurity
I've wasted so much money at the doctor's office. It's deeply influenced the way I look at 'going to the doctor'. I'll be that guy that should've gone in a lot earlier, but now I"m stuck with some horrible prognosis because I delayed. I once went in to have my knee...