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Know Your Enemy: Red and Purple Teaming for Cyber Defense
Cybersecurity can’t be limited to reacting to threats, especially when you don’t know where your real gaps are. Red and Purple Teaming flips the script; letting you simulate real-world attacks to uncover vulnerabilities, sharpen incident response, and improve your security posture before the stakes are high. In this blog, we break down what these exercises are, why they matter, and how to start using them effectively — including how to align them with your organization’s risk profile, budget, and level of maturity.
Our Continued Fight Against Junk Email
If email is the lifeblood to business communications then junk email is the cancer that eats away it. We know the importance of email to
Monthly Technical Operations Maintenance Window – March 14, 2015
The DataYard Technical Operations team will begin the monthly maintenance window for March at 6:00AM EDT, Saturday, March 14, 2015 with an anticipated completion time of
We’re Hiring! Receivables & Payables
We’re Hiring! Receivables & Payables DataYard is seeking an Accounts Receivable / Payable Clerk to maintain customer profiles, issue invoices, post payments, collect past due
Industry “Best Practices”?? I Don’t Care!
A staple of the information technology industry is the notion of a “best practice”. I’m not very fond of it. Best practices are supposed to
DataYard’s Speed Test Going Offline
DataYard’s Speed Test Going Offline Beginning January 21st, 2015, we are retiring the Internet speed test that we have offered at http://speedtest.donet.com/. There are numerous
SSLv3 Man in the Middle (POODLE)
SSLv3 Man in the Middle (POODLE) What Is It? Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption (POODLE) – a security vulnerability that forces the downgrade of
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
The technological landscape continues to evolve at a fantastic pace, and staying on top of it all can be challenging. In spite of the high
Ready Backup Scheduled Maintenance – October 06, 2014
The DataYard Technical Operations team will be performing an upgrade to our Ready Backup infrastructure beginning at 10:30 AM EDT on Monday October 06, 2014
Layer 2 Networking Pseudo Redundancies
Layer 2 Networking Pseudo Redundancies Premise I’ve seen many production networks that rely on layer 2 pseudo-redundancies through the core, and I’m here to explain
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