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CASE STUDY: The unique complexity of cyber security municipalities and governments

The challenges: Municipalities and governments find themselves in an interesting situation as often the IT and information security departments are a generic city or county service, however based on the numerous departments they support they have very nuanced information security requirements. In addition the goal is always to cut down on taxpayer burden so they […]

Special Directive on Domain Name System (DNS) Compromise

Last week the USA’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sent out a directive for all agencies to upgrade their Domain Name System (DNS) security in light of a wave of Iranian hack attempts specifically targeted at compromising DNS.The compromiseThe Iranian cyber-criminals attempted (it’s unknown if they succeeded), to figure out through DNS records who the […]