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4 types of phishing and how to protect your organization

What is phishing, what are the common types of attacks, & how can you protect your organization? | Your Phishing Guide

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Bilal Khan

Phishing & Elections: 4 Ways to Protect Your Data During Election Season

During the election season, the population is especially susceptible to phishing attacks. How can you make sure your data is safe?

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Abby Costin

Social Engineering Part 3: Phishing

Phishing is the number one cause of breaches in the world, with an average of more than 46,000 new phishing sites created per day, or nearly 1.5 million each month.

Phishing

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MPG Blog

4 Things to Know About the NIST Phish Scale

The NIST Phish Scale is a method by which CISOs can rate and categorize the level difficulty of the templates used in phishing simulations.

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Elaine Toennies

Hardware Vulnerability: Understanding Spectre, Meltdown and the Price of Unchecked Modernization

Firewalls, encryption, antivirus software, armed security guards, and dual authentication, all exist to secure data, and protect data from unauthorized access.

Hardware Vulnerability, Meltdown, Spectre

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Andrew Nowak

Ask A Pen Tester: What Are DDOS Attacks?

A distributed denial of service attack is when cybercriminals intentionally overwhelm a server with data and use up all its bandwidth. Here are some steps you can take to mitigate damage from a DDoS Attack.

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Kory Ponting

Current State of FISMA Part 3: What Is the Target?

In part three of our FISM blog, we talk about compliance scanning and continuous monitoring.

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Matt Shepherd

CMMC: Where it all started

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) continues to mature with new CMMC 2.0 standards in place today, but let’s look at the history of how CMMC started.

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Noelie Vias

What’s the difference between Pen Testing, Red Teaming, and Threat Hunting?

Understanding how pen testing, red teaming, and threat hunting are different, and where do the overlaps exist will help improve your security posture today.

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Abby Costin

What Is Zero Trust?

Learn the principles of Zero Trust Architecture and how you can use it to keep your network secure

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Hailey Frazier

Securing Your Home Office From IoT Devices With Zero Trust Architecture

Learn how to protect your home network and other digital assets using Zero Trust Architecture

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Bruce Taylor

Securing Company Data in a Remote Workforce with Zero Trust

Provide a higher level of security to your remote workforce by implementing Zero Trust Architecture

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Bruce Taylor

STIG vs CIS: Selecting the Best Baseline for Your Business

Selecting the best security baseline controls for your business can get complicated whether STIG, CIS, a hybrid, or custom baselines. Let's review what you need to know to make a choice between them.

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Justin Nemmers

STIG vs CIS: The Anatomy of Baselines Controls and Compliance

What is STIG & CIS? Learn the basics of cybersecurity baselines, security frameworks, and how to create your own baselines and some tolls to jump start your controls.

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Justin Nemmers

How to configure and search within the Ansible Tower API using the Ansible URI Module

Hear from to automation experts at MindPoint Group on how to dynamically search within the Ansible Tower API.

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Brennan Stride

How to Hack Through a Pass-Back Attack: MFP Hacking Guide

Is that printer in your office vulnerable to a pass-back attack? Why Multi-Function Peripheral (MFP) Hacking an important tool in the pen tester's arsenal.

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Elwood Buck

3 Vulnerabilities to be on the Lookout for to protect your data

Here are some vulnerabilities that are becoming more common and what security vulnerabilities should you be on the lookout for.

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Kory Ponting

Ask A Pen Tester: What Is Vishing?

VoIP-Based phishing is when a hacker pretends to call you from a trusted phone number. Here are signs of a vishing attack.

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Kory Ponting

Ask A Pen Tester: What Are Packet Sniffing & Black Hole Attacks?

One of the most common VoIP attacks is called packet sniffing, which allows hackers to steal and log unencrypted information contained in voice data packets while they are in transit.

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Kory Ponting

MindPoint Group Achieving Diversity Without Mandate…What’s in the Secret Sauce?

How has MPG achieved a diverse and inclusive work environment? It all starts at the top with our four founding partners and their mission.

Diversity, Diversity Champion, Diversity in STEM, Diversity in the workforce, Diversity in the Workplace, LGBTQ, LGBTQ in Tech, LGBTQ in Technology, Minority in Tech, Minority in Technology, National Women's Equality Day, STEM, Women in STEM, Women in Tech, Women in Technology, Women's Equality Day, workforce diversity, workplace diversity

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Safi Mojidi

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