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Someone Left the Company. Is Their Access Actually Gone?
Read More: Someone Left the Company. Is Their Access Actually Gone?Someone left the company on Friday, and you disabled their account. Done? Not necessarily. If you’re on a help desk, you’re a sysadmin, or you’re early in a security…
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Cloud Storage Says Public. Is It Actually Exposed?
Read More: Cloud Storage Says Public. Is It Actually Exposed?Your scanner says a cloud storage container is public. Okay, but is it actually exposed? And was it supposed to be? If you’re in IT or early in your…
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Before You Reimage That Laptop, What Should You Check?
Read More: Before You Reimage That Laptop, What Should You Check?A laptop might be compromised, the user needs it back by tomorrow, and somebody on your team says, “Just reimage it.” Before you do, there are a few things…
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The Job Title Says Security Analyst. What Will You Actually Be Doing?
Read More: The Job Title Says Security Analyst. What Will You Actually Be Doing?The job title says security analyst. Okay, but what will you actually be doing? You can’t tell that from the title, and that’s the problem. Say you work in…
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The App Team Says It’s the Firewall. How Do You Find Out?
Read More: The App Team Says It’s the Firewall. How Do You Find Out?The app team says it’s the firewall. Okay, but how do you know that? Before you start opening ports, there are a few things you need to check. If…
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Vulnerability Scan Results: Where Do You Start?
Read More: Vulnerability Scan Results: Where Do You Start?The scan finished overnight. It found 400 findings, sorted by severity, with a wall of red at the top. Your manager forwards the report with one line: “Where should…
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How to Write a Risk Statement That Gets a Decision
Read More: How to Write a Risk Statement That Gets a DecisionYou found something real. Remote access is open to a group of accounts that don’t need a second factor to sign in. You write it up in one line,…
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Is This Data Sensitive? What to Check Before Sharing It
Read More: Is This Data Sensitive? What to Check Before Sharing ItSomeone asks you to set up a shared folder for a project, just a few spreadsheets, and to make it a link so it is quick for everyone to…
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Cybersecurity Interview Questions: How to Answer “Walk Me Through What You’d Do”
Read More: Cybersecurity Interview Questions: How to Answer “Walk Me Through What You’d Do”The interviewer leans back and says, “An account signs in from one city, and twenty minutes later it signs in from a city on the other side of the…
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Backup Restore Test: What a Successful Backup Doesn’t Tell You
Read More: Backup Restore Test: What a Successful Backup Doesn’t Tell YouEvery morning the backup report says the same thing: success. It has said that for months. So if the file server died tonight, how long would it take before…
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