Cyber Security & Technology to help you stay safe online

Who should read this?

There are MANY blogs out there. There are many people in the infosec / cyber security community that author detailed write-ups, post on their own blogs or are published in national publications. I’m not one of those people. So, why am I doing this? When I write a blog entry, I’m imaging that I’m telling […]

Where’ve you been?

That’s a song title of a great Country song, sung by Kathy Mattea. But, that’s not what I’m getting at… So, WHERE have I been? I haven’t written a blog post in four months! The reason is that I’ve been studying for my most recent technical certification for Amazon Web Service’s Solutions Architect – Associate. […]

Security Question: What’s your mother’s maiden name?

Those security questions are a convenience for you, and an opportunity for the bad guy. OSINT:  (noun) Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is a multi-methods (qualitative, quantitative) methodology for collecting, analyzing and making decisions about data accessible in publicly available sources to be used in an intelligence context. In the intelligence community, the term “open” refers to […]