Cyber Security News and Information from Commonwealth Sentinel

What do you think of when you hear the word “Legacy”? The Good – “Legacy” What others will picture when they hear your name after you’re gone. You might want your legacy to be that you were a family man and cared for your community. Or maybe you were a devoted wife and mother. Or […]

Before I owned a cyber security company, I worked at the Washington Navy Yard in DC I noticed one day in the elevator that the inspection certificate above the floor buttons said “vertical personnel transportation conveyance.” The other people in the elevator (conveyance) must have thought I had lost my mind when I started laughing […]

Relax… A vulnerability scan or a penetration test (PenTests) doesn’t hurt. There’s no “prep” like with a colonoscopy. But they are just as important. Sometimes, people want to skip the vulnerability scan and add on their security controls (e.g., Endpoint Detection and Response, Network Monitoring, Firewall, Anti-Virus, etc.).Sometimes, they think they are protected since they […]

Not Another Scam… Yep, we don’t have enough to worry about, I guess. Isn’t there enough danger out there already? We must be careful about ransomware attacks, business email compromises, malware, phishing emails, vishing (voice phishing), and smishing (phishing via text message). We have to protect our passwords, use multi-factor authentication, use different passwords for […]