In January 2019, a massive database of email addresses and passwords was released on the internet. The collection included over 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords, cred...
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Over the past few years, we’ve seen tons of collaboration and knowledge sharing platforms become popular including Slack, Facebook for Work, and Microsoft Teams. On top of those platforms, popular p...
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We keep an eye out and share the most interesting articles, reports, and case studies FireOak topics: managing, sharing, and securing information, data, and knowledge.
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Right before the end of the year, on December 21, 2018 the U.S. Congress passed The Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary Government Act (also known as the OPEN Government Data Act), an act designed...
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Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) just passed its six month milestone. Not surprisingly, most organizations aren't yet in compliance, but one key takeaway is that good-faith efforts t...
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We'll be presenting at the CGIAR Big Data in Agriculture Convention on October 2, 2018. Abby Clobridge and Eric Smith will be sharing three research data loss horror stories from an information securi...
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FireOak Strategies, LLC is pleased to be a Platinum Sponsor of this year's KMWorld event. We'll be at the conference in Washington, D.C. from November 6-8, and we'll be presenting at the co-located Of...
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For most organizations, it can be a challenge to balance the need to protect and secure data with the need to promote internal knowledge sharing. But it doesn't have to be the case.
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When implemented properly, multi-factor authentication dramatically strengthens security defenses, making it much more difficult for attackers to use stolen credentials.
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Many models of HP networked printers include a flaw which allow an attacker to compromise a printer’s embedded network controller and install a persistent backdoor.
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