Friday, May 1, 2020

From Fuel Headquarters

As shelter-in-place orders continue to be observed, employees required to work from home may not have the same security protections that their physical workplace offers. Until employees can return to these offices, following simple cybersecurity best practices is now more important than ever.

With that in mind, we spoke with George Finney, CSO at Southern Methodist University (SMU) and Fuel Board Member. The SMU Office of Information Technology recently outlined a number of tips for remote employees in their quarterly security update. What follows are tips that Finney suggests Fuel members can share with their own employees.

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Nearly five years ago, John Matelski and Dwight Hobbs took interest in a little-known cybersecurity user group called Fuel. After exploring all the group had to offer, they found this was the community for them.

Monday, April 2, 2018

As the cloud takes center stage in cybersecurity discussions, we can’t forget the importance of protecting organizations on the endpoint side. The Internet of Things (IoT) has created an entire host of devices that could possibly be compromised, and protections should be in place to make sure these devices are secure.

We share your responses to the Fuel Cybersecurity Question of the Month
Friday, March 23, 2018

Each month, we ask Fuel members to weigh in with their opinions on the Cybersecurity Question of the Month, and we’re sharing their answers here.

This month we had multiple Fuel members voice their response to a question on the topic of Using Multi-Factor Authentication.

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

It would be wonderful to be two places at once. There are plenty of times when the overwhelming demands of a job or life simply seem like too much for one person to handle. When it comes to IT security, centralized management of both Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) can help ease time constraints and make tasks on different clouds easier to accomplish.

Thursday, March 8, 2018

Quick question: When it comes to staying ahead of security threats, which is most important; finding effective methods of monitoring cloud resources, guarding against the loss of sensitive data, or checking security configurations? That answer, of course, is all of the above.

Thursday, February 22, 2018

Needless to say, cybersecurity can be a tough environment in which to operate. For many professionals, it is not uncommon to be working with industrial assets that are located in harsh environments that have been, or are being modernized as part of an OT digital transformation initiative. 

While the automation piece to these environments may be cutting-edge, provisions for cybersecurity are lagging, leaving organizations exposed. Given the rising threat landscape for ICS/SCADA and the simultaneously tightening regulatory landscape, where even the most remote sites may be subject to cybersecurity laws, this could not continue.

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Today, Palo Alto Networks released PAN-OS 8.1. Users will be glad to find this release enables easy adoption of application-based security, removes barriers to securing encrypted traffic, simplifies management of large networks and helps you quickly identify advanced threats in conjunction with Magnifier for behavioral analytics.

Sunday, February 4, 2018

What is your multi-cloud strategy? Today it is not uncommon for organizations to be running a mix of public infrastructure as a service (IaaS) environments, such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. In fact, a recent study concluded that one-third of the world’s companies are using four or more cloud vendors in their day-to-day operations.

Friday, February 2, 2018

Have you taken advantage of the Palo Alto Networks Best Practices Booklet? Released last June, it contains 300+ pages of specific, immediately useful advice for improving security, performance, manageability, and high availability.

We continue to provide our members with resources for useful guidance of the booklet. One such resource is the Fuel Tip of the Week Forum. Let’s take a look at one of the latest tips highlighted in this forum.