Thursday, April 3rd Water Grill | Costa Mesa Water Grill: Image for reference only. Actual layout may vary. Thursday, April 10th Mission Inn | Riverside Mission Inn: Image for reference only. Actual layout may vary. 11:00 am - 3:00 pm Complimentary valet is offered for our valued clients. TOPICS: Balancing AI Innovation and Risk 2025 Cybersecurity Updates AI Data Governance Develop a custom Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) for AI How to test a

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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By: Jim Westover, Enterprise Solutions Architect | Nth Generation One of the few constant and inevitable things in the world and in our lives is change. Adapting to change in meaningful ways can bring better outcomes and a brighter future. In recent years, we are all witnessing data, workloads, and systems migrating to the edge while staying connected to the cloud and centralized core environments. Managing the breadth of distributed computing, edge to cloud is a growing pri

Tap into Nth (G.O.A.T) Security Services By: Bob Sale, Field Sales Engineer, Nth Generation Living in Southern California offers so many advantages. You can hike the mountains in the morning and sit on the beach for sunset! In SoCal, we don’t have tornadoes, hurricanes, or ice storms. However, we do have activities every bit as devastating, such as wildfires and earthquakes – fires being more of an annual concern. The cycle looks something like: in spring, we get rain which g

Congratulations to all Nth 2022 Security + Hybrid IT Partner of the Year winners, announced last night at Nth’s Annual Kickoff and Strategic Training partner dinner and awards ceremony! The winners were selected based on their outstanding business performance and innovations delivered to customers in 2022. Nth’s valued partners are essential to our growth and success, and we are thrilled to honor these partners and the business impacts they have made. We are looking forward t

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

SAN DIEGO, CA – June 15, 2022 – Nth Generation has been named Arctic Wolf’s California Regional Partner of the Year for 2022, Nth’s second consecutive year receiving this accolade. This honor recognizes Nth’s commitment to improving its customers' cybersecurity posture through a strategic partnership with Arctic Wolf. Together they focus on joint business growth and planning, engagement and training, demand generation, and executive and security practice alignment. "It is a g

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

Due to high demand, we are adding a Rancho Cucamonga event location. April 28th, 2022 Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar 7905 Monet Ave, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91739 11:00 am - 1:45 pm o o o Agenda o o o 11:00 am | Check-in 11:30 am | Lunch is served 11:45 am | Nth Welcome and Intro 12:00 - 1:25 pm | Rapid Presentations 1:25 pm | Q&A 1:45 pm | Adjourn All times and details subject to change. Times listed in PT. o o o Event Topics o o o Ransomware, Cyber Insurance, Hybrid

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

April 13th, 2022 Water Grill, Costa Mesa 3300 Bristol St, Costa Mesa, CA 92626 11:00 am - 1:45 pm o o o Agenda o o o 11:00 am | Check-in 11:30 am | Lunch is served 11:45 am | Nth Welcome and Intro 12:00 - 1:25 pm | Rapid Presentations 1:25 pm | Q&A 1:45 pm | Adjourn All times and details subject to change. Times listed in PT. o o o Event Topics o o o Ransomware, Cyber Insurance, Hybrid Clouds, and War: How do they affect your organization? Join us to discover cyber insuran

Join Nth Generation’s Public Sector team at the 2022 CISOA Technology Summit: Navigating the NEXT Normal. March 20-23, 2022 Location: Ontario Convention Center and DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Ontario Airport in Ontario, CA Schedule Overview o o o Nth Breakout Session o o o Don’t miss our highly anticipated breakout session, “Ransomware Readiness and Other 2022 Cybersecurity Concerns” which will debut on Tuesday, March 22nd from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. If you are serious about l

In this episode, Jerry Craft, vCISO and Sr. Security Consultant at Nth, and Derek Johnson, Sr. Cyber Security Engineer, GPEN at Nth, discuss ransomware takeaways from Nth Generation's Ransomware Readiness Assessment (RRA) SM. Derek goes over the top 3 problems we're finding as we do these assessments, and the top 3 solutions to these issues. Watch here. Join Nth Huddle, our exclusive forum connecting you to our Security experts. Request membership here. Learn more about Nth S

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

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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

One of the more heavily RANSOMWARE targeted industries in recent months is CASINOS. ooo A recent FBI alert warns, "...identified notorious ransomware groups, including Bitpaymer, Conti, Cuba, REvil, Ryuk and Snatch...have launched successful attacks on casinos, shutting down operations and stealing data.” Source Recent Statistics: "Experts estimate that a ransomware attack occurs every 11 seconds in 2021... 60% of survey respondents experienced revenue loss and 53% stated the

Why Segmentation? Security, Security, Security!!!! Some say, “It is not if, but when” you will experience devices infected with malware such as ransomware or BIT mining. Opening a file in an email or a link on the web that the Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) or Antivirus (AV) has not detected could infect your machine and attempt to move laterally within your network, looking for valuable data and high-profile servers to attack. This means it can encrypt all your files for ra