GYTPOL's Blog

Every organization has its unfinished business. For too many, it's SMBv1. Even years after Microsoft deprecated it, SMBv1 still lingers in enterprise networks — often out of sight, but not o...

Is good security good business? When something goes wrong, it’s easy to draw the connection: bad security leads to breaches, downtime, and damage. But what if catastrophe isn’t looming?

Configuration security is a foundational piece of the cybersecurity puzzle — yet one that too many organizations continue to overlook.

Things just don't seem to stay how they're meant to. It's a problems familiar to most people in the world of enterprise IT and Security. And in 2005 it was a problem for the Burnet Institute...

Myths and misconceptions can be dangerous, especially in the world of cybersecurity. From treating group policies like gym memberships to the conviction that it just won't happen to you, the...

Not every risk has a CVE, and not all weaknesses can be patched. Misconfigurations, overly permissive access settings, unsafe protocols, and unenforced policies often fall outside traditiona...

After decades taking the same (largely reactive) tack as the rest of the world, Japan is now flipping the script and perhaps setting a new cyber standard for others to emulate, passing a law...

Cyber hygiene refers to the regular, ongoing practices and foundational safeguards that implemented to proactively maintain the health and security of an organization's digital environments ...

When it comes to reducing enterprise threat exposure, configuration hardening isn’t a new idea — but it’s finally getting the focused attention it deserves.

The sheer volume of security tools in today’s enterprise IT environments disguise a critical truth: more tools don’t equal better protection. This was among the key takeaways from Gartner®'s...