Security Best Practices From the Tenth Fleet
Rear Admiral Bill Leigher was the guest speaker at this morning’s University of Southern Maine Corporate Partner’s breakfast, and while we didn’t learn anything new at a presentation geared to lay...
View ArticleHealth Care Data Breach? Surprise! Your Insurance May Not Cover It.
Featured in this month’s MaineAhead Magazine is an article we wrote about the tragic risks and consequences associated with a data breach. Reliable Networks founder, L. Mark Stone, recounts a speaking...
View ArticleRSA SecureID Tokens Totally Compromised – All 40 Million Likely To Be Replaced
Yesterday the respected online news service Ars Technica and the Wall Street Journal reported what we had internally suspected for a while: that the March 2011 data breach at RSA has indeed rendered...
View ArticleWindows Malware – Five Easy Pieces
We recently came a cross an interesting study released by international security firm CSIS, which concludes that “…as much as 99.8 % of all virus/malware infections caused by commercial exploit kits...
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Zimbra vs. Dropbox and Evernote; Security and Privacy Policies
Challenges: Ease of Use vs. Security Dropbox and Evernote are very easy to use and have enjoyed fairly broad market adoption. Two issues we have with Dropbox are their security (all customer files were...
View ArticleClient Update – Ch… Ch… Ch… Changes
Reliable Networks was born nine years ago as a vision of what, as a then CIO of a global corporate trading company, would comprise my ideal technology managed services provider. Over that time, as...
View ArticleMore Encryption Yields Less Security?
Zimbra 7.2 now includes native support for S/MIME email encryption. GPGTools and GPGMail integrate seamlessly with Mac Mail on Lion. Even commercial PGP is much easier to use than just a few years...
View ArticleNYC Cloud Computing Expo Roundup
This week, along with several thousand other attendees, I came to what is billed as the largest Cloud expo on the east coast for four days. Despite the sessions being fairly vendor heavy, there were a...
View ArticleReliable Networks On The Move! SSAE 16 SOC 2 Type II Ongoing…
With effect from September 1, 2012, Reliable Networks will be in new, larger offices — a few stories up from where we are now. Our new address will be: 477 Congress Street, Suite 812 Portland, ME 04101...
View ArticleGoDaddy Outage and DNS Disaster Recovery Planning
By now you’ve probably heard about the GoDaddy outage yesterday. While as of this writing the full story has yet to be revealed, the incident highlights the need for having a Disaster Recovery plan...
View ArticleHIPAA Enforcement – Not Just for Hospitals Any More.
All too often at conferences and other more social settings health care professionals have confided to us how much they hate HIPAA and why should they bother when enforcement of the Security rule is...
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Why We Got a SOC 2 Instead of an SSAE 16 SOC 1 (And a Type II as well…)
Short Answer: First, because our clients and prospective clients who are knowledgeable about SOC reporting, especially in regulated industries, totally “get” how data center and managed service...
View ArticleIt (Should) Take Two To Tango – Knight Capital Goes Bust
Slashdot today reported that the forensics on the Knight Capital implosion are now public (see link to story below). The long and the short of it is that there was no dual-control environment over...
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OS X Mavericks Subtle Security Tweak
In Corporate America, a computer’s Lock Screen or screensaver feature is often used as a security feature. Either with a few keystrokes or just enough idle time, a workstation will lock itself, clear...
View ArticleYahoo and Google Encryption Catch Up
Lately we’ve been reading a lot of articles about how Yahoo and Google are encrypting communications in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations regarding NSA spying. Here’s one example from today....
View ArticleMPLS, VPNs, BGP Exploits and Maybe Your Data Isn’t as Secure as You Thought?...
Wow! Three 3-letter acronyms right off the bat before we even get to the topic at hand: Data Security. What’s the specific problem here, really? Well, the problem is that we have stumbled across a few...
View ArticleZimbra Password Strength – New Study From Dashlane Recommends Our Policies
Most Websites Allow Crackable Passwords Like “123456″ and “password” When we first deployed our Zimbra hosting farm years ago, we insisted on complex passwords, password rotations 3x per year and other...
View ArticleJust Say “NO!” To Windows XP
Earlier this month Microsoft finally ended support for Windows XP (unless you are, say, the British government and are paying Microsoft more than a million quid to get another year of support…) The...
View ArticleSpam, Spam, Spam, Spam… (Lovely Spam, Wonderful Spam!)
Monty Python references notwithstanding, in the past few weeks we have seen an extraordinarily major increase in the amount of spam hitting our and our clients’ mail servers — and it’s been anything...
View ArticleWhat Is The Best Protection Against Malware?
What Can We Learn From Race Cars? In the racing business, there is an old saying that “To finish first, one must first finish!” Trying to go as fast as you can, all the time, is in fact, not the best...
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