https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog.html Plain-English guidance for business leaders, plus threat analysis and breach retrospectives for technical teams, from Grey Cybersecurity Solutions. en-ca Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/cybersecurity-questions-for-business-leaders.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/cybersecurity-questions-for-business-leaders.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Strategy & Risk Management Most leaders don't need to know how a firewall works. They do need to know whether the business could survive a serious cyberattack — and who is accountable if it couldn't. These… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/ransomware-guide-for-executives.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/ransomware-guide-for-executives.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Guides Management Ransomware is criminal software that locks up your files and systems until you pay. Today's attacks usually go further: criminals steal your data first, then threaten to publish… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/microsoft-365-security-baseline.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/microsoft-365-security-baseline.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Guides Technical Microsoft 365 is the backbone of many organizations — and a prime target. Compromised mailboxes lead to business email compromise, data theft and ransomware. This baseline focuses… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/privacy-breach-obligations-alberta.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/privacy-breach-obligations-alberta.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Strategy & Risk Management If personal information your organization holds is lost, stolen or accessed without authorization, you may have a legal duty to report it. Here's a plain-language overview of the… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/cyber-insurance-what-leaders-need-to-know.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/cyber-insurance-what-leaders-need-to-know.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Strategy & Risk Management Cyber insurance can soften the financial blow of an attack, but it's no substitute for security — and insurers know it. Premiums, coverage and even eligibility now depend on the… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/security-budget-where-to-spend-first.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/security-budget-where-to-spend-first.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Strategy & Risk Management Security spending can feel like a bottomless pit, and vendors will happily sell you another tool. The organizations that spend well don't necessarily spend the most — they fund… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/detection-engineering-mitre-attack.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/detection-engineering-mitre-attack.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Threat Analysis Technical A SIEM full of default rules generates alerts, not security. Detection engineering treats detections like software: designed against real adversary behaviour, tested… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/how-to-read-a-penetration-test-report.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/how-to-read-a-penetration-test-report.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Guides Management A penetration test is an authorized, simulated attack on your systems by specialists who think like criminals. The report that follows can run to dozens of pages. You don't need… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/business-email-compromise-finance-teams.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/business-email-compromise-finance-teams.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Guides Management Business email compromise is a simple, highly profitable scam. Criminals impersonate an executive, supplier or client — often from a genuine but compromised email account — and… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/incident-response-plan-roles.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/incident-response-plan-roles.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Guides Management When a cyberattack hits, confusion costs time — and time costs money. An incident response plan decides in advance who does what, so your team can act instead of debating. It… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/vulnerability-management-program.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/vulnerability-management-program.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Guides Technical Scanning is easy; fixing the right things fast is hard. A mature vulnerability management program turns thousands of scanner findings into a short, prioritized list with clear… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/zero-trust-explained-for-business-leaders.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/zero-trust-explained-for-business-leaders.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Strategy & Risk Management “Zero Trust” is one of the most-used phrases in cybersecurity marketing. Behind the buzzword is a simple, sensible idea: don't trust anyone or anything automatically — check every… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/vendor-supply-chain-risk.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/vendor-supply-chain-risk.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Strategy & Risk Management Your organization may be well defended, but what about the companies you rely on? IT providers, software vendors and service firms often have deep access to your systems or data.… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/hybrid-work-security-checklist.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/hybrid-work-security-checklist.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Guides Management Hybrid work is here to stay, and so are the risks that come with it: home networks you don't control, devices that leave the office, and staff who can't lean over and ask IT if an… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/ransomware-resilient-backups.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/ransomware-resilient-backups.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Guides Technical Modern ransomware operators treat backups as a primary target. They enumerate backup servers, harvest backup credentials, delete snapshots and restore points, then encrypt what's… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/security-metrics-for-the-board.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/security-metrics-for-the-board.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Strategy & Risk Management Many security reports are full of impressive numbers that tell leaders nothing: millions of “threats blocked,” thousands of emails filtered. The metrics that matter show whether… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/security-awareness-training-that-works.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/security-awareness-training-that-works.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Guides Management An annual slideshow followed by a quiz satisfies a compliance checkbox, but it rarely changes what people do when a convincing email arrives on a busy Tuesday. Effective awareness… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/compliance-is-not-security.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/compliance-is-not-security.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Strategy & Risk Management Certifications and audits reassure customers and regulators, and they're often required to win business. But being compliant and being secure aren't the same thing. Attackers… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/ai-risks-for-business-leaders.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/ai-risks-for-business-leaders.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Threat Analysis Management Artificial intelligence is changing how businesses work — and how criminals attack them. Leaders don't need to be AI experts, but they do need to understand the new risks and set… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/backups-are-not-a-recovery-plan.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/backups-are-not-a-recovery-plan.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Guides Management Almost every organization says it has backups. Far fewer know how long it would take to recover from them, or whether they'd survive a ransomware attack. A backup is a copy of… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-2.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-2.html Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Threat Analysis Technical The application of machine learning to offensive security has fundamentally altered the threat landscape. Attackers now leverage generative models to synthesize highly evasive… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-3.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-3.html Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Guides Technical A mature cyber defense program is not a collection of disparate tools but a coordinated architecture aligned to business risk. In 2026, effective defense requires a risk-based… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-6.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-6.html Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Threat Analysis Technical Zero-day vulnerabilities represent unpatched defects for which no vendor fix exists at the time of discovery. When weaponized, they enable stealthy initial compromise and… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-1.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-1.html Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Guides Technical Ransomware remains the most financially consequential threat class facing modern enterprises. In 2025, the convergence of double-extortion business models and… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-4.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-4.html Sat, 28 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Guides Technical Cloud security is a shared responsibility that organizations frequently misconfigure. The most damaging cloud breaches originate from identity mismanagement, permissive storage… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-5.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-5.html Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Guides Technical Phishing remains the most prevalent initial access vector in enterprise intrusions. Modern phishing campaigns employ branded lookalike domains, single-sign-on consent abuse, and… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-12.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-12.html Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Guides Technical Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) is a security model that eliminates implicit trust and continuously verifies every access request. Rather than relying on a hardened perimeter, ZTA… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-18.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-18.html Fri, 06 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Breach Retrospectives Technical In late 2023, 23andMe disclosed a credential stuffing attack that exposed the genetic data of millions of users. The incident is a powerful example of how credential stuffing and… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-10.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-10.html Wed, 31 May 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Threat Analysis Technical Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) was a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Apache Log4j 2, a Java logging library embedded in countless enterprise applications. The… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-17.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-17.html Tue, 22 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Breach Retrospectives Technical In early 2022, Okta disclosed a security incident involving the compromise of a third-party customer support engineer's credentials. The breach, attributed to the LAPSUS$ group… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-11.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-11.html Fri, 07 May 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Breach Retrospectives Technical The May 2021 ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, which operates the largest refined-products pipeline in the United States, forced a multi-day operational shutdown and… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-16.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-16.html Tue, 02 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Threat Analysis Technical In March 2021, Microsoft disclosed the ProxyLogon vulnerabilities—CVE-2021-26855 and related CVEs—affecting on-premises Microsoft Exchange Server. These zero-day flaws were… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-9.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-9.html Mon, 14 Dec 2020 12:00:00 +0000 Breach Retrospectives Technical The SolarWinds supply-chain compromise of 2020 demonstrated that attackers could gain broad access by compromising a single trusted software vendor. Malicious code was injected… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-15.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-15.html Mon, 29 Jul 2019 12:00:00 +0000 Breach Retrospectives Technical In July 2019, Capital One disclosed a breach affecting approximately 100 million individuals in the United States and 6 million in Canada. The attacker exploited a misconfigured… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-14.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-14.html Fri, 30 Nov 2018 12:00:00 +0000 Breach Retrospectives Technical In November 2018, Marriott disclosed a breach in its Starwood reservation database affecting approximately 500 million guests. The compromise had persisted since 2014, undetected… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-8.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-8.html Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:00:00 +0000 Breach Retrospectives Technical The 2017 Equifax breach exposed the personal and financial data of over 140 million consumers, marking one of the most consequential data compromises in history. From a technical… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-7.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-7.html Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:00:00 +0000 Breach Retrospectives Technical The year 2016 marked a watershed in cybercrime, with the disclosure of some of the largest credential breaches ever recorded. Analyzing these incidents from a technical… https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-13.html https://grey-cybersecurity-solutions.com/blog-post-13.html Thu, 22 Sep 2016 12:00:00 +0000 Breach Retrospectives Technical The Yahoo breach, disclosed in September 2016, remains one of the largest data compromises in history, affecting over three billion accounts. The incident was not a single event…