Month: September 2018

Cyber Security Summit in Chicago

WGN Midday News Steve Sanders interviews Chicago Cyber Security Expert Lee Neubecker.

Chicago’s Enigma Forensics CEO & President Lee Neubecker Video Interview with WGN on Cyber Security

WGN’s Midday News Reporter Steve Sanders, interviewed Enigma Forensics CEO Lee Neubecker and Cyber Security Chicago Conference Event Director David Juniper today.  The conference debuted last year and was successful.  Chicago is becoming a National Cyber Security and technology hub. 

Tomorrow’s event is taking place at McCormick Place on Sept. 26 and 27 featuring 90+ speakers and 4,000+ attendees.

Watch the interview on video by clicking below:

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Top Ways to Protect Your Home from Cyber Attacks

Top Ways to Protect Your Home from Cyber Attacks

Top 10 Ways to Secure your Home from Cyber Attack

  1. Make sure you have a firewall that blocks outsiders from getting into your home network
  2. Patch your computers and devices at least monthly
  3. Buy IoT devices from vendors that build in security by default
  4. Purchase IoT devices that auto-update or can easily be patched
  5. Don’t purchase computing devices that use default username = admin, password = static default password
  6. Consider carefully if you really need a WiFi enabled toilet (or other appliance)
  7. Segregate your IoT devices by putting them on the guest network that many routers offer
  8. Purchase devices from manufacturers that publish the firmware updates online with verifying hash value
  9. Don’t buy devices from manufacturers that lack https secure encryption on their own website
  10. Discard out dated IoT devices that do not have patch updates available

Top Online Resources for Securing your Home Against Cyber Attacks

USA Department of Homeland Security CISA on Securing your home network security

USA Department of the Navy on Securing your Home Against Cyber Attacks

WGN Cyber Security Chicago Conference 2018

WGN on Cyber Security Conference

WGN Cyber Security Chicago Conference 2018 Video Interview 

WGN News is running a midday news segment promoting the Cyber Security Chicago Conference happening this Wednesday and Thursday (September 26th & 27th, 2018) at the McCormick Convention Center.  Neubecker will be sharing a preview of the featured presentation he is giving this Wednesday at the Conference on IoT security.

Tune in tomorrow for the 11AM – 12PM live broadcast.

More details on the conference available at https://leeneubecker.com/chicago-cyber-conference-2018/

Read More about Cyber Security Expert Lee Neubecker

Neubecker also is the founder of IT Security Blog leeneubecker.com. Before starting Great Lakes Forensics, Neubecker had served as CISO for HaystackID and following the acquisition of Envision Discovery and Inspired Review by HaystackID, Neubecker was promoted to serve as CIO over the combined entities. Neubecker was named one of the top Global Computer Forensics and Cyber security experts by Who’s who Legal in 2019 and many years prior to that.

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