The Bedel Security Team is excited to welcome its two newest vCISO Specialists, Mark Lester and Travis Johnson! Mark has 5 years of experience providing IT support for a community bank and...

If you’re anything like me, your life is a high-speed train racing through the digital landscape. We’re constantly connected, always on, and sometimes it feels like we’re spending more time online...

Cybersecurity Awareness Month1 is an annual campaign held in October to promote awareness about the importance of cybersecurity and encourage individuals and organizations to take proactive steps to...

Being the founder and CEO of a virtual CISO firm, I get asked questions about professional development from time to time. How do I advance my career in cybersecurity management? How do we grow our...

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) was initially developed in 2014 and was intended to be a living document, dependent on feedback from stakeholders. It was initially developed for critical...

The Bedel Security Team is excited to announce the promotion of our very own Errica Padgett, CISSP to vCISO Senior Advisor! Errica joined The Bedel Security Team in November of 2020 as a vCISO...

As attackers are finding new ways to get around multifactor authentication in Microsoft 365, conditional access is becoming more important. Conditional access refers to a set of policies in M365...

Picking up from where we left off, while the cybersecurity aspects of Generative AI are paramount, the journey of understanding its integration into banking doesn’t end there. Third-Party...

If you've kept a finger on the digital pulse lately, you've certainly bumped into Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLM), symbolized by powerhouses like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude,...

We are thrilled to announce our newest Bedel Security team member, Administrative Manager, Cinda Reardon! Cinda began her career as an enthusiastic leader in education, driven by a passion for...