CubedCorps helps small and medium-sized businesses comply with clients, insurance companies, and relevant frameworks to mitigate cyber security risks by providing cyber-security consulting services.
I have been in the Information security sector informally for many years, and in the past 5 years, much more formally. I have used mostly NIST and ISO 27001 frameworks for clients although I have used others like PCI and Cobit. I like the framework that ISO 27001 and supporting ISO documentation (ISO 27002-5), especially […]
Follow these steps when your laptop has been stolen. It doesn’t not matter if it was stolen from your car, the airport security line, or was physically wrenched from your hands in a grab-and-run or just disappeared. If you are self-employed skip to File a police report. If you work for a company, then call your IT […]
Congratulations! You just landed your dream job and it means you will be working from home or perhaps you were promoted and now are part of a division of your company that is located all over the world. You are now part of the Virtual Team. Working remotely has some unique challenges (and opportunities!). First, […]
What background do I have in computer security? Let me give you my background when it comes to computer security. In the year 2008, I was in the 2nd year of my college education. My parents had given me a macbook pro. I know Apple, right. What my parents didn’t know was I had installed […]
The U.K. Cyber Essentials Security Scheme – a useful framework for small businesses in other countries! In October 2014 the UK government created a low-cost, light-touch scheme called Cyber Essentials. It doesn’t introduce new concepts, controls or processes. It takes items from existing standards such as the ISO 27000 and NIST SP 800-53 publications and […]
Having helped many small organizations troubleshoot problems with Microsoft Active Directory, I thought I would put a few of my favorite trouble shooting tips and tricks in a blog for reference and for my later reference. First: how do you determine that something may be wrong with the current active directory configuration? Here are a […]
I was looking back at some of my very early policy that I wrote back in 2004. After reviewing some of my initial policy, I realized that creating a good policy can be a hard thing to perform correctly the first time. I decided to help people new to policy writing by outlining a template […]
As more and more businesses are either voluntarily or forced to increase their security posture, the first step is developing and documenting good security policy and procedure. There are only a few times where I have not performed this essential step before making changes to the environment. Writing security policy is a large task that […]
A funny thing happened a few months ago, I opened up my Internet explorer compatibility list and found that I could only put domains in it and not specific web sites like I used to be able to. This presents a frustrating problem if there are more than a couple websites hosted at a particular […]