In light of recent news, your company has probably, hopefully, made securing your network a top priority. While the rest of your IT team is looking at how to protect your network from external threats- you can be one step…
In order to succeed today, organizations need to make data-driven decisions to boost performance and get ahead of the competition. However, with the sheer amount of information present, many businesses struggle to attain data-driven status. A report by M-Files reveals…
I’ve already harped on this a few times, but at nFront Security, we feel that this topic is often overlooked, and it can be a huge danger to some companies, especially after the Colonial Pipeline hack. People come and go…
First and foremost, I would like point out that a password policy is only as good as the settings that you select. For example, you could pay a company millions of dollars for the most secure password policy in the…
Let's talk about insurance and what it's actually intended to do. According to Google's dictionary, insurance has two meanings:
1. A practice or arrangement by which a company or government agency provides a guarantee of compensation for specified loss, damage,…
Every day when I speak to various members of IT departments that are interested in the nFront Password Filter, there are a few common topics that we speak about during our conversations. First, he or she will mention that they…
Humans are very predictable and unless we see our company's name plastered across every news channel and online search engine due to a data breach, we will probably assume our company's network is safe, and we are doing a decent…
Running a password cracker is a standard part of any security audit procedure. Password crackers generally work in 4 ways – (1) a brute force crack (2) a dictionary crack (3) a hybrid dictionary crack and (4) rainbow tables. The…
At nFront Security, we believe that providing tips and checklists are a great way for IT Administrators to know if they are forgetting about any important security measures that might have slipped their mind. There is a famous quote that…
It seems like almost weekly we are seeing headline news stories of a new company falling victim to a data breach. There are many different reasons why a company is breached: Denial of Service Attacks, Malware Attacks, Password Attacks, and…