The IronBox Team Blog

Industries like accounting, healthcare and legal are getting more and more savvy about protecting their customers data.  One of the most common methods we see professionals today use is password-protected PDFs (great, good on you!). Here are however some of

It’s been about two weeks now since the Heartbleed bug with OpenSSL was reported to the public. Most companies that are vulnerable are taking action to protect their customers (good/great/fantastic). But there are many others that are not (not good).

A major security bug was reported this week in OpenSSL, the open-source cryptographic library used by many Web sites around the world.  The bug was nick-named “heartbleed” and is estimated to impact about 2/3rds of all Web sites. Plenty of

I had a bunch of meetings this week, as I imagine we all did, but two of them really stood out that I think you could really benefit from hearing about: Meeting #1: A rather large company wanted to move

This past October AHMC Healthcare Inc. reported that the protected health information for over 700k patients had been compromised following the theft of two stolen laptops.  A couple months later, Lindsay Lohan’s handlers reported that her laptop  was stolen at

Target reported in a disclosure last Friday that they picked up signs of suspicious activity, but decided not to take immediate action.  Here are sure fire signs that you’ll probably be hacked in 2014 and what you can do right

If you’re worried about your data getting hacked in 2014, you should be. I read an article about the Navy’s database recently getting hacked because they did not receive proper updates from their software vendor which exposed them to SQL

Moving data to the cloud can be scary, especially if the data is sensitive or regulated in any way. I am willing to bet the number one question concerned organizations (and their auditors) wonder is this: Are they (cloud vendors)

Last week Apple released an emergency security patch for iOS devices that addressed an implementation issue in their use of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Basically the flaw allowed an attacker to masquerade as any secure site (such as Google, Amazon,