In the new work-from-home (and school-from-home) era, between adding your family “full-time” to your home wifi and the cloud providers and ISPs scrambling to increase capacity, many of you have...
Will Coronavirus Affect Security Operations?
You cannot open a news site or turn on the television today without rightfully hearing about the coronavirus. While governments and medical systems scramble to respond and contain the virus, it is...
The Cloud Balancing Act: Improving Business Outcomes without Degrading Your Security Posture
Who knew that way back in 1964 Bob Dylan would predict the challenges we’re facing with the cloud in 2020. Times they are a-changin’. We’re in the midst of an evolution in IT, led by the rapid...
Dudear or Not Dudear – Analyzing A Recent Phishing Attempt
Following the Tweet from the Microsoft Security Intelligence account January 30, 2020 (https://twitter.com/MsftSecIntel/status/1222995250911703041?s=20), we at SecureSky were a little curious whether...
CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v1.1 Released
I am pleased to have participated in and been named a co-editor of the most recent release (version 1.1) of the Center for Internet Security Microsoft 365 Foundations Benchmark. Sharing SecureSky’s...
SecureSky’s Top 5 2020 Cloud Security Predictions
Cloud Computing Adoption Will Accelerate We’re not going out on a limb in predicting cloud services will continue to grow. The information technology world is experiencing a tectonic shift, led by...
Detecting BEC Attacks and Compromise - Part 5
1.0 Introduction Welcome back to SecureSky’s series on Business Email Compromise (BEC) Attack and Detection! In Part 1 of this blog series, we introduced BEC attacks, and discussed why BEC attacks...
Azure Security Best Practices
Using Application Security Groups Setting up infrastructure in Azure can, at times, seem quite daunting with all of the available options one can configure within each service. In this blog, we will...
Configuration of Office 365 to Detect BEC Attacks - Part 4
1.0 Introduction In Part 1 of this blog series, we introduced Business E-mail Compromise (BEC) attacks, and discussed why BEC attacks are increasing. In Part 2, we used recent BEC investigations to...
Configuration of Office 365 to Protect Against BEC Attacks - Part 3
In Part 1 of this blog series, we introduced Business E-mail Compromise (BEC) attacks, and discussed why BEC attacks are increasing. In Part 2, we used recent BEC investigations to discuss how BEC...