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Secure Ideas: Business model sounds like spy movie plot
The Jacksonville Daily Record profiles Secure Ideas’ physical penetration testing work, exploring how the Professionally Evil team helps organizations stay ahead of real world threats.
Jacksonville Daily Record
A New Cybersecurity Report Is Exposing An Alarming Threat To Certain Routers
Kevin Tackett explains why a factory-shipped backdoor on Zbtlink routers means the vendor cannot be trusted, and what it means for anyone using the affected models.
HUFFPOST
WhatsApp Is Rolling Out Usernames Instead Of Phone Numbers
Kevin Tackett explains how a phone number can be used to search data broker sites and target scam victims, and why WhatsApp’s new username feature is a meaningful privacy step.
HUFFPOST
Jeff Man Joins Secure Ideas to Build PCI Practice and Expand Conference Presence
Jeff Man joins Secure Ideas to lead the firm’s new PCI practice, Practically Secure, and represent the company at industry conferences.
Business Wire
Zach Tackett on The Phillip Wylie Show
Security Consultant Zach Tackett talks his path from a blue-collar background to supporting NASA to pentesting at Secure Ideas, with real talk on networking, certifications, and why persistence beats a perfect resume.
The Phillip Wylie Show
Jennifer Shannon & Kevin Tackett, Secure Ideas on Layer 8
Kevin and Secure Ideas consultant Jennifer Shannon talk social engineering, pretexts, and why testers get caught.
Layer 8 Podcast
This Overlooked iPhone Setting Is Alarming People.
Kevin Tackett weighs in on viral warnings about the iPhone’s Automatic AirPlay setting, cautioning that any added connectivity is a risk while pushing back on exaggerated claims about how easily it can be exploited.
HUFFPOST
Kevin Johnson, Chief Executive Officer, Secure Ideas
The Cyber Security Recruiter
Secure Ideas Achieves CREST Accreditation and CMMC Level 1 Compliance
Secure Ideas announces CREST accreditation and CMMC Level 1 compliance, reinforcing its standards-based approach.
PR Newswire
It's a bright future at InfoSec World 2024
SC Media
Has your car insurance rate skyrocketed?
News4JAX
Prioritizing controls and detection can buy IT teams time when medical devices are attacked
Reporting from HIMSS24 on medical device security, configuration management, and monitoring.
Healthcare IT News
Secure Ideas experts discuss physical, digital security
The Jacksonville Business Journal covers how Secure Ideas helps organizations understand evolving threats.
Jacksonville Business Journal
"Legacy of Leaders" with Kevin Johnson and Britiney Tackett of Secure Ideas
Alex Kellison sits down with Kevin Johnson and Britiney Tackett of Secure Ideas on this business leadership program.
Legacy of LeaderS
Secure Ideas launches PETaaS
Business Wire
Secure Ideas: A conversation with Kevin Johnson
SC Media / CyberRisk Alliance
PODCAST
Kevin Johnson: Samurai Swords and ZAP's Departure
Application Security Podcast
DEF CON 30: Kevin Johnson
Bishop Fox
The problem with APIs
Kevin Tackett shares his perspective on API security challenges and why the attack surface keeps growing.
VentureBeat
Hacker explains how to protect your practice's data
Medical Economics
Data from your car could be sold to insurance companies, others
Hackers can access computer or phone through this charging cable
How to protect your data after breach hits Quest Diagnostics vendor
News4JAX
Exposing the Fallacies of Security by Obscurity: Full Disclosure
ISACA Journal
Global cyberattack exploits known code flaws
Reuters
Looking inside the threats to connected medical devices
Kevin Johnson on how attacker behavior and ransomware tactics apply to connected medical devices.
Healthcare IT News
Secure Ideas: Securing Business by Exposing Vulnerabilities
Enterprise Security Magazine
Ransomware cases on the rise
News4JAX
Cybercrime Costs Businesses $445 Billion and Thousands of Jobs
NBC News
Kevin Johnson on cybersecurity at HIMSS16
A dedicated video interview on healthcare cybersecurity and ransomware, recorded at HIMSS16.
Healthcare IT News
Hollywood Presbyterian hack signals more ransomware attacks to come
Kevin Johnson on the hospital ransomware attack and why similar incidents were likely to continue.
Healthcare IT News
What Does Alleged iCloud Hack Mean For Federal Agencies?
Kevin Johnson weighs in on cloud backups, BYOD policy, and the celebrity iCloud breach.
Nextgov/FCW
Walmart Sends Chills Through Money Transfer Business
In a roundup on Heartbleed’s fallout, Kevin Johnson warns many sites still had not reached out to users about exposed passwords.
ABC News
Defcon founder's message to feds fair to some, hypocritical to others
Coverage of James Jardine and Kevin Johnson of Secure Ideas withdrawing their DEF CON presentation over the conference’s request that federal employees stay away.
Computerworld
GSA Database May Have Leaked Contractor Banking and Proprietary Information
Kevin Johnson explains how a SQL injection flaw could account for a federal contractor database exposure.
Nextgov/FCW
Hackers, Security Pros Talk Penetration Testing, Social Engineering
Network World
What Penetration Testers Find Inside Your Network
Dark Reading
The Most Common Vulnerabilities Found By Penetration Tests
Secure Ideas examples of exposed admin interfaces, default credentials, and other recurring findings.
Dark Reading
Let's Get This BYOD Office Party Started
Infosecurity Magazine
Kevin Johnson on The Willis Report about Healthcare.gov security
Kevin Johnson appears on The Willis Report to discuss security concerns surrounding Healthcare.gov.
The Willis Report
HTML5 Raises New Security Issues
PCWorld
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