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Cloud Computing and Remote Work Excerpt: This is an important point as COVID-19 has changed a great deal about how we approach infrastructure builds and the ongoing support in the enterprise. In many ways, organizations look at cloud-based opportunities as a direct alignment with remote workers and cost-cutting, Patrick Kelley, CTO at Critical Path Security in Canton, Ga, told us. It is often viewed as an opportunity for organizations to transfer some of the capital and operational expenses that are typically viewed as a loss. Additionally, as platforms and the underlying technology becomes increasingly advanced, it shifts technical debt away from the organization and onto the 3rd party vendor, requiring fewer highly specialized resources. The real cost issue, he said, is centred around Shadow IT and project scope creep. Traditionally, adding new servers and storage capacity would require a request through a Change Control process, where several sets of eyes…

Critical Path Security is thrilled to be an active member of the COVID-19 CTI League!  We are currently providing the only Zeek Threat Intelligence Feed from this group, as well as a full Darkweb Intelligence Processing Engine targeted directly at COVID-19 and Work From Home threats! "Cyber threats related to Covid aren’t limited to vulnerable hardware at hospitals or malicious emails with attachments claiming to list cures. The dark web was exploding with hospital network administrator credentials—both real and fake—for sale. There were piles of stolen patient data. People were selling hydroxychloroquine pills and supposed Covid vaccines. “They shift their business tactic to whatever is the hot item at the moment,” says Sean O’Connor, an Atlanta-based league member who specializes in dark web infiltration. “And the hot item at the moment is Covid.”" "Just a week after Zaidenberg had messaged Warfield, the league was fielding dozens of membership requests a…

From the Mentor Project: Join Cybersecurity expert, Patrick Kelley at 6pm ET as he discusses EVERYTHING kids (and adults) need to know NOW about securely using the internet. More and more kids are online now, and social media is only one aspect of safety. Is your camera on and streaming and you don’t know it? Maybe your tv? Is your airbnb a safe place? What happens to your social media postings? How can you keep creeps from tracking you or your children?

11Alive quotes: Cyber security expert, Patrick Kelley says the tracking technology is on most of our devices. "Google pulled all of the geo-data, basically the maps data where devices were at the time of this event, where the family was murdered," Kelley said. Kelley says sharing location information can raise privacy issues. "Google is pretty tight about giving this information over, even when there's a warrant- their legal team is notoriously rigid and fights back on user rights," Kelley said. Read more