Password Complexity: Why It Makes a Difference in a Breach

By: Joel Carleton, CSID Director of Cyber Engineering We’ve all heard that it’s important to pick long, complicated passwords. What you may not realize is why this becomes crucial in the context of a breach. While ensuring you don’t pick from some of the most common passwords is important, it’s still not enough.  Some background information on [...]

iPad Vampires: 7 Simple Security Settings to Stop Data Suckers

By John Sileo, CSID consumer security expert Information is the currency and lifeblood of the modern economy and, unlike the industrial revolution, data doesn’t shut down at dinnertime. As a result, the trend is towards hyper-mobile computing – smartphones and tablets – that connect us to the Internet and a limitless transfusion of information 24-7. [...]