As a business owner, email is a cornerstone of your operations—especially if you use a custom domain (e.g., tony@noc.org). Ensuring your email security is crucial to protect against cyber threats like phishing, spoofing, and account takeovers. This guide provides actionable tips to strengthen your email security and keep your business safe. Why Email Security Matters […]
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Bringing A Domain to Life: Choosing Between Closed and Open Web Platforms
Choosing how to bring your domain to life is an important decision. Like with everything, the $10 / year annual subscription for the domain itself is only the beginning. One of the more important, and often overlooked, decision is choosing between Open and Closed platforms. This is a relatively new phenomena, thinking within the last […]
Registries, Registrars, and DNS: The Backbone of the Internet
The internet relies on several critical components to function seamlessly. Among these, registries, registrars, and the Domain Name System (DNS) play pivotal roles. While these terms may seem technical, they are integral to how we navigate and interact with the online world every day. In this article, we’ll break down what these components are, how […]
The Affects of a CDN on your Websites Performance and Users Experience (and Google)
One of the most common questions we get related to our CDN is about performance. How much faster does it really make a website? Is it worth the trouble to enable a CDN for my site? Does performance have a material impact? Is it worth the cost benefit analysis? Let’s explore those questions. In this […]
Securing WordPress in The Enterprise
Approaching a web applications security is as much about mindset as it is about the tools and configurations you deploy. It’s why security professional always talk about people > process > technology. Unfortunately, in almost every incident response instance the former components, of people and process, are often nonexistent. I blame a lot of this […]
Responding to Website Security Incidents – Incident Response Plan Basics
If there is one thing that we have learned from vulnerabilities like Log4Shell, Heartbleed, Apache Struts Framework, Shellshock, and so many others is that when it comes to the components that power the web, the fabric of the internet, we are not prepared. That acknowledgement is critical in helping us psychologically acknowledge that security itself […]
The Domain Name System (DNS)
In our previous article, we explored the relationships between Registrars, Registries and DNS. In this article, we will dive deeper into the world of DNS. The art of Routing Web Requests (Hello DNS) DNS stands for Domain Name System (DNS), you might hear it used interchangeably with Domain Name Server (DNS). It is the mechanism that […]