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7 Essential Business Security Tips You Need to Follow

As a business owner, you'll know just how important protecting your company is. It could be the target of more than a few potential hackers and other criminals trying to get at your data, steal your inventory, and much more. It can be one of the more unfortunate parts of running a company. But, that doesn't mean it has to be one of the more overwhelming. Quite a few business security tips could have a noticeable impact, especially when you want to do more than just installing some alarms, CCTV cameras, and locks. It's just a matter of knowing what you're doing.

What CISSP Still Proves That a Stack of Tool Certs Doesn't

Look at almost any security resume and you will find a wall of product badges. A cloud provider's associate cert, a SIEM vendor's operator credential, an EDR platform's specialist track, maybe a firewall qualification or two. Every vendor runs a certification program, every tool ships a badge, and collecting them is a reasonable way to prove you can do the job in front of you.

CMMC for MSPs and ESPs: Who Needs Certification?

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, CMMC, is currently the most important information security framework for thousands of businesses across the country. Businesses that wish to work with the Department of Defense, or a DoD subcontractor, are quite likely to need to earn their CMMC certification in order to win those contracts. For those businesses that haven't been paying attention, this can come as a significant surprise.

The Safety Problem Nobody Warns You About When You Start Training a Language Model

There's a version of the LLM safety conversation that stays comfortably abstract - AI alignment, existential risk, theoretical failure modes that matter at a scale most organizations will never reach. That conversation is important, but it's not the one most product and technology leaders need to be having right now. The one they need to be having is more immediate and considerably more practical: how the specific decisions made during llm training services directly shape whether the model you deploy is one your organization can actually stand behind.

How Small Businesses Can Build a Secure and Maintainable IT Environment

Small businesses depend on technology for nearly every part of their daily operations. Customer communication, invoices, accounting, document management, online sales, remote work and internal collaboration all rely on computers and digital services. This makes even a small company an attractive target for cybercriminals.

From days of training to three better rules in a minute

A few years ago, I was part of a team responding to a high-profile security incident. After the incident was resolved, I was given a list of NDR rules to add to my firewalls. The issue was that the rules were not made for Suricata, the IDS I was using in this position at that time, so they generated false positives. With all that extra noise, I made it my goal to eliminate that excess noise.

5-Hour Online Pre-Licensing Course - How Registration, Timing, and ID Verification Actually Work

New York rolled out an online version of its 5-hour pre-licensing course a few years back, and on paper it sounds like the easy option: no classroom, no fixed schedule, just log in and get through the material. In practice, the state built in a set of checks that a lot of first-time applicants never see coming, and a couple of deadlines that do not bend for anyone. None of it is designed to trip people up, but the 5 hour online pre-licensing course runs on rules that reward knowing them in advance and punish finding them out the hard way.