This months podcast features host Larry Bianculli speaking with guest CISO Agim Bracovic from BNB Bank, as well as our very own Matthew Pascucci, cybersecurity practice manager, at CCSI, on Incident Response. How do you build a team of qualified IR resources with current staff? How do you prepare and train an incident response team?…
On Data Privacy Day earlier this year, CCSI briefly discussed the implications of The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It is essentially a set of rules imposed by the European Union to give individuals primary control over their personal data. This means that companies will now have to disclose or delete the personal data they hold.…
Zero-trust networks are often deemed compromised and untrusted, making authentication variables essential to security. Expert Matthew Pascucci explains a zero-trust security model. In the past, we’ve done a great job of making networks accessible. But with this increased availability, we’ve opened the door for attackers to move more easily around networks. However, as we introduce…
Two weeks ago CCSI held its first annual CISO Roundtable to discuss cybersecurity trends, issues and solutions. The conversation was focused on how local CISO’s are currently handling security from an executive level. In attendance were ten cybersecurity leaders on Long Island who brought years of experience and expertise to the discussion. The attendees were…
It is now widely accepted that Cloud computing can help small and midsize businesses (SMBs) lower operating expenses and improve application performance – and the public clouds are helping small businesses to either replace or supplement their on-premises IT needs. While having a sound migration strategy in place is crucial, equally important is to ensure…
We’ve recently seen turnover in the government with a void in the Cybersecurity leadership and it led me to think about how this is being handled in enterprises nationwide. Cybersecurity is more than just technology, hackers, and fancy toys. It’s also about strategy, leadership, and team building, which needs to come first before the implementation of…
The first question most people have when they hear the acronym CASB is, “What the heck is this CASB thing?” According to Gartner, a cloud access security broker (CASB) is an on-premises or cloud-based security policy enforcement point that is placed between cloud service consumers and cloud service providers to combine and interject enterprise security…
Spending days and nights monitoring your own network, as well as others, would probably seem like a mundane task to majority of people, but like any other job there are certain days that can stick out in your mind. For the ones that are not familiar with what a Network Operations Center or NOC is,…
Several years back, organizations didn’t even think about users signing up for their own applications and tools. The fact that each application required access to resources that were beyond their control kept this problem bottled up. Storage, compute, and network configurations were all IT’s domain and so IT needed to be consulted before a new…
This past week Matthew Pascucci, Cybersecurity Practice Manager at CCSI participated in a Cyber Roundtable. Check out this article about the roundtable discussion by Teresa Varela-Lauper. Dr. James Stanger is CompTIA’s Chief Technology Evangelist. He’s a CompTIA super hero in my book….traveling all over the world, speaking at events, impacting and representing the IT industry…