Many clients have asked about password best practices and the concept of passphrases. Passphrases are a secure solution to the everyday password problem. End-users are upset that they have to create a longer, more secure password that can be difficult…
The Health Information Trust Alliance, also known as HITRUST, is an organization that created the Common Security Framework (CSF). The HITRUST Alliance is a non-profit organization with a program set up to standardize compliance requirements amongst many industries. Since it…
Did you know that one in six people select their pet's name as their password?
To put this more into perspective, the last year the US Census was taken that categorized the US population into age groups was 2014.…
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…
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…
Changing your company's password policy can create a high level of apprehension for the IT department as well as management, especially when the password policy will become more restrictive for end-users. Your company's management team will have the primary concern…
Using a third-party vendor has not been considered a real security threat until recently (sorry, Target). Now, the limelight is shifting from enforcing a strong password policy to all employees to enforcing a password policy to all users on the network-…