An Earth Day Reminder: How to Take Care of Your Security Environment

by Tori Thurmond / April 22, 2024

Happy Earth Day! I hope you get to spend some time outside today to take in mother nature in all of her glory, but while I have you here, I want to discuss a different type of environment: your security environment.   Just as with the environment around us, we have to take care of our organization’s security environment to keep our data healthy, happy, and, most importantly, secure. There’s are…

A Bigger, Badder Villain: How to Face the Advanced Threats of AI

by Tori Thurmond / March 21, 2024

Every year in January, the KirkpatrickPrice team gathers in Tampa, FL for one of our biannual team meetings. This week is always a fun one where we get to reunite with our long-distance coworkers and discuss our goals for the new year. This January was no different. We had a great first week of 2024, but by Friday, some of us didn’t want the fun to end. We drove a…

Notes from the Field: CIS Control 13 – Network Monitoring and Defense

by Greg Halpin / December 15, 2023

“How would you know if your network or systems have been compromised?” That’s the question I often ask clients when discussing their networking monitoring and defense tools. An IT manager of a small company I worked with recently was honest and said he wasn’t sure. He was so busy putting out different fires every day, he didn’t know where to begin. The IT team consisted of four people, and he…

Notes from the Field: Center for Internet Security Control 12 – Network Infrastructure Management

by Greg Halpin / November 17, 2023

In our increasingly busy lives, we often find ourselves making promises we can't keep. We promise to start our diet on Monday, but order in on Tuesday. We promise that this will be the year we take our dream trip, or finally learn French, or run a marathon. Maybe we promise that we'll implement the perfect network infrastructure. But life, as it often does, gets in the way. A company…