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By: Jeromie Jackson, Director of Security & Analytics at Nth Generation AI is enabling hackers to manipulate both technology and humans. As a Director for Security and Analytics for Nth Generation, my role encompasses spearheading red team activities and leveraging cutting-edge technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), to enhance our penetration testing services and ultimately to fortify your security posture. Equally, we are highly focused on utilizing AI to clo

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I was very intrigued by the purchase of OpsRamp by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). I knew little of what the company does, so I investigated why HPE purchased it, and how OpsRamp would add to the value of HPE’s current offerings. Today, many companies use various point tools for their IT operations, but OpsRamp is a platform and not a point product. With over 2,500 integrations of various manufacturers, OpsRamp offers the following benefits: Proactive IT Operations – Be the

When evaluating the cybersecurity posture of a target company in a merger and acquisition (M&A) involving small to mid-sized companies,...

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By: Cameron Matthews, vCISO & Sr. Security Consultant at Nth Generation You may think every business and government outfit that creates apps practices Secure Software Development Lifecycles (SSDLC), but you’d be wrong. Thus, the tidal wave of system compromises that afflict businesses on a daily basis. This article concerns the other SSDLC that organizations also do not practice: Secure SYSTEMS Development Lifecycle. This is an even greater problem than the first SSDLC: fail

By: Jim Russ, Enterprise Solution Architect at Nth Generation I have been working in IT in one form or another for over 40 years. I have...

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Secure Service Edge (SSE) – What are these all about? They sound similar, so why does Gartner make so many Magic Quadrants with seemingly overlapping capabilities? Let’s examine the differences and commonalities. SASE is a Gartner specification term coined in 2019 that explores cloud security products more as a framework; whereas SSE, coined in 2022, looks at a group of Cloud Security products within a single management domain. SSE also remo

Technical debt. This is a term used more and more to describe established IT environments that are overdue for updates of many kinds. The demand to deploy new systems and applications along with the lack of budget for regular hardware replacement means regular maintenance tasks can be ignored or deferred too many times, leaving the IT environment at risk. For example, running obsolete vSphere ESXi v5.1 on old processor hardware (i.e., Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, or Opteron serv

Office buildings are empty or at sparse capacities. "See something, say something" is limited when there are few eyes on the prize. This quick video featuring Jeromie Jackson, Director of Security & Analytics at Nth, shows how easy it is for thieves to compromise physical security credentials and breach your brick-and-mortar. Nth Generation Security professionals aid organizations in mitigating risk, both for cyber and physical security. #KnowYourWeaknesses Watch Jeromie's fu

In this episode, Jerry Craft, vCISO and Sr. Security Consultant at Nth, and Rich Lindberg, contributing CISO, discuss how to build Security Operations (SOC), and use that security data in Executive/Board Communications. They also review avenues you can take to help educate your staff, and where you can go to find information on this subject. Watch the full episode here. Join Nth Huddle, our Discord server, to plug into Nth’s Security Subject Matter Expert brain trust. Request

In this episode, Jerry Craft, vCISO and Sr. Security Consultant at Nth, covers the latest concerns about ransomware in 2022, and reveals what you should investigate as you fight this threat. The ransomware playbook constantly changes as bad actors scurry to find ways to continue extorting companies. Watch to discover how Jerry evaluates one of these new concerns here. Join Nth Huddle, our Discord server, to plug into Nth’s Security Subject Matter Expert brain trust. Join our

By: Jerry Craft, Nth vCISO + Sr. Security Consultant As a tenured Sr. Security Consultant and vCISO at Nth Generation, I meet daily...

By: Jerry Craft, vCISO, Sr. Security Consultant | Nth Generation As a virtual CISO, I have the pleasure of meeting with many different executives across a variety of business verticals every day. In an average day, I meet with executives and discuss business risk. One risk that keeps coming up but getting pushed aside is data retention. Time and time again, I find that some executives are unsure how, or if, they should be concerned about data retention or data classification