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Jason Smith

Jason Smith is the Security Consultant for Internetwork Engineering (IE) with over 15 years experience in IT & IT Security, including finance, retail, and aerospace and defense. Connect with Jason on LinkedIn.

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Data Protection | IT Consulting

By: Jason Smith
March 5th, 2024

Cybersecurity can be expensive, challenging, and often unrewarding. Cybersecurity and risk practitioners have faced challenges over the years to find the most effective metrics to show success and return on investment in cybersecurity efforts. Many organizations have taken a strategic approach and started to group security controls into programs. This approach provides those organizations the ability to share the holistic perspective and success, whereas it is more difficult to show success of an individual component. Data protection is one of those areas.

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Data Protection | Cybersecurity

By: Jason Smith
December 12th, 2023

With new cyber threats surfacing almost daily, the barometer for adequate cyber resiliency seems to be moving constantly. What kept your environment safe yesterday, may not be enough today. Are you truly taking the concept of cyber resiliency to heart, or just crossing your fingers with every hack tactic debut?

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Networking | Network Access Control | Cybersecurity | Identity Management

By: Jason Smith
September 19th, 2023

Have you heard this recently, “You need better network segmentation?"

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Data Protection | Cybersecurity | IT Consulting

By: Jason Smith
October 5th, 2022

While there is no precise ‘how to’ guide on how to lower your cybersecurity insurance policy premiums because every single business is different, you can hedge the bets in your own favor. We’ve put together 4 tried and true best practices to help you up your chances of getting a more manageable cybersecurity insurance premium. Let’s review.

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Data Center | Data Protection | Cybersecurity | Data Storage

By: Jason Smith
October 3rd, 2022

Most organizations are bewildered at the mention of this latest cybersecurity requirement. When the term immutable backup comes up, we often hear, “’What is it,’ ‘Why would I need it?’, and ‘How can it help me?’”

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Network Access Control | Cybersecurity

By: Jason Smith
November 16th, 2021

If you’re concerned about Zero Trust Architecture adoption, you’re not alone. It’s slowly becoming a necessity as cyber threats advance, and more companies do their business online. Zero Trust isn't a new concept. The term “Zero Trust” was initially published as part of a Forrester Research paper, “No More Chewy Centers: Introducing the Zero Trust Model of Information Security” in 2010. [1]