Cybersecurity Education

Getting Started Securing your Business

Learn more about where to start in securing your business and using the Coalition Knowledge base

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Understanding and Preventing Malware Infections

Learn about the different types of malware that you and your organization is exposed to and how you can protect yourself

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Understanding and Preventing Business Email Compromise

Learn about business email compromise and how to protect yourself and your organization

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Understanding and Preventing Funds Transfer Fraud

Learn about Funds Transfer Fraud (FTF) and how to avoid becoming a victim

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Understanding and Preventing Social Engineering Attacks

Learn what social engineering attacks are and how you can protect yourself and your organization

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Understanding and Preventing Denial of Service (DoS/DDoS)

Learn about denial of service attacks and how to prevent them.

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Understanding and Reducing the Risks of Software Vulnerabilities

Learn about the types of software vulnerabilities and how you can reduce the risk of compromise

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Understanding the Impacts of Unpatched and Out-of-Date Software

Understanding the value of updating software applications

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Starting a Vulnerability Disclosure Program

Learn about vulnerability disclosure programs and how to start your own.

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Implementing Multi-Factor Authentication

Learn how to install and enable multi-factor authentication for your emails and applications.

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Understanding Password Extortion Scams

New email spear phishing scam uses your own password

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Training your staff with Security Awareness Training

How to use security awareness training to help improve the cybersecurity posture of your organization

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Getting Started Securing your Business Email

Learn the key areas of email security and what you can do.

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Using Anti-Phishing software

How to use anti-phishing software and services to help secure your corporate email usage

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Protecting your email with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC

Learn about the benefits of SPF, DKIM, and DMARC and how to enable them for your email domains.

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Enabling SPF to Secure your Email

Learn about SPF and how to enable it for your email domain.

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Using SPF on Domains without Email

How and why to use SPF on domains that don't host email

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Preventing Spoofing with DMARC

Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) limits email spoofing

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How to configure DKIM for Office 365

How to set up DKIM records for your Office 365 Email

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How to configure DKIM for GSuite

How to set up DKIM records for your GSuite Email

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Preventing Spoofing with DKIM

Learn how to help prevent email spoofing by using DKIM

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How to configure DMARC for Email

Learn what DMARC is and how to configure it for Office 365, GSuite, and other mail services

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Tagging External Emails in Office 365

Learn to visually identify emails that come from outside your organization and add warnings.

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Enabling Multi-Factor Authentication on Office 365

MFA (also known as 2FA) helps protect your organization and is free with Office 365

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Enabling Multi-Factor Authentication in GSuite

How to enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) in GSuite

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Enabling Security Audit Logging in Office 365

Learn how to enable your Office 365 security audit logs.

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How to Find Unauthorized Rule Changes in your Email

Learn how to identify email changes attackers leave behind.

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How to Find your Email Headers for Investigation

Learn how and where to find the technical email trail used in an investigation in your email client

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Getting Started Protecting your Web Applications

Learn how to protect your web applications from compromise

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Securing your Web Applications with a Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Learn about Web Application Firewalls and what they can do to help protect your web applications

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Understanding Web Application Vulnerabilities with the OWASP Top-10

Learn about the most common web application vulnerabilities from the Open Web Application Security Project Top-10 list.

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Choosing the Right Hosting Provider for your Business

How to choose a web hosting service that's right for you and your business.

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Using SSL/TLS to Secure your Web Applications

Learn about encrypting online communications for your web applications.

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Securing your Magento Store

Top tips for securing your Magento eCommerce Store

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Securing your Drupal CMS

Top tips for securing your Drupal 8 Content Management System

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Configuring and Deploying Cloudflare

Learn how to configure and deploy Cloudflare DNS and traffic proxy

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How to Remove Malware from Your Website

Helpful tips for removing malware and other corruption from your website.

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Securing WordPress

Learn where to get started in securing your WordPress site

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Setting Permissions Correctly in WordPress

Learn how user roles work in WordPress and how to set them properly in your environment

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Obscuring Administrator Username in WordPress

Change the administrator username to help prevent brute force logins

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Updating WordPress to the latest versions

Learn how to update your WordPress website and keep it updated

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Performing Backups in WordPress

Learn how to backup your Wordpress site

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Securing your WordPress Server Linux Filesystem

Properly setting your WordPress filesystem permissions in Linux (Expert Level)

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Enabling Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) in WordPress

How to enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) (also known as 2FA) in WordPress

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Working with 3rd Parties for Security

Learn how to safely use 3rd party IT and Security companies as part of your overall IT strategy

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Protecting your Company from Third-Party Liability with Contracts

Using contracts to help protect your company in the event a third-party has a security or service failure.

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Working with HIPAA Business Associates

Tips for effectively working with Healthcare Business Associates

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Working with an IT Managed Service Provider (MSP)

Learn how to work with MSPs to securely enable your business to succeed

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Understanding Security Compliance and Frameworks

Learn about security compliance and how it applies to you

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How Coalition helps with NYDFS compliance

New York State Department of Financial Services regulation (23 NYCRR 500)

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Understanding SOC2 Compliance

Learn the benefits of SOC2 compliance for your organization

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Understanding PCI Compliance for Credit Card Acceptance

Learn about the Payment Card Industry and the Data Security Standard

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Understanding the HIPAA Security Rule Compliance for Medical Industries

A brief introduction to HIPAA Security Rule Compliance for Medical Industries

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Understanding NIST 800-171 and CMMC Compliance

Learn about complying with NIST 800-171 and the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification

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Accepting Healthcare Appointments Online

How should a medical service provider handle accepting patient appointments?

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Getting Started Protecting your Domain

Learn the basics of protecting your online domains

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Understanding the Impact of a Look-Alike Domain

Learn about how look-alike domains are used in modern attacks, what to look for, and how Coalition helps.

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Understanding DNS Registry Locking

Learn how to lock your domain names to prevent fraudulent registration transfers.

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Understanding DNSSEC

Learn the basics of DNS and how to enable DNS security functionality for your domains.

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Understanding and Preventing Ransomware

Learn what makes ransomware so dangerous and some steps towards becoming a victim of an attack.

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Securing your Business Against Ransomware

Simple technical steps to reduce the risk and impact of a ransomware attack

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Best Practices for Avoiding Malware

Practical tips and steps to take to prevent becoming infected with malware

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Disabling Macros in Microsoft Office

Help prevent malware and ransomware by preventing macro execution

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How to Clean Ransomware

Tips on removing malware infections common to ransomware

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Upgrade from Internet Explorer 11 web browser to modern alternatives

IE 11 is an old web browser with several modern alternatives

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Using Penetration Testing to Improve Security

How to use penetration testing, or Ethical Hacking, to improve your overall security posture

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Closing Unused Network Ports

How to close unused network ports

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Encrypting your Data at Rest

Learn how to protect your data while “at rest” on your computer

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Securing Exposed Databases

Learn how to prevent attackers from finding and attempting to attack your database server

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Securing Exposed Server Message Block (SMB) Servers

Learn how to prevent attackers from finding and attempting to attack your SMB servers

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Understanding Technical Best Practices

Learn what technical best practices are and where to find them

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Recommended Password Policies

Learn about best practices for password use in your organization.

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Understanding Remote Desktop Protocol

Learn about Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol and how to prevent attacks.

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Checking if your Computers are Encrypted

Learn to identify whether your computers are encrypted or not.

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Device Management Best Practices

Learn about high-level best practices for securing your computers and phones.

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Password Managers

Learn about password managers, how they're used, and why.

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Remote Access Best Practices

Learn about best practices for remotely accessing your networks and computers.

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Data Backup Best Practices

Learn about best practices for backing up your organizations data.

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Vulnerability: Windows file sharing ports

Learn about the risks of exposing Windows file sharing ports.

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How to mitigate CVE-2018-9206 - jQuery File Uploader vulnerability

Understanding a vulnerability in the popular jQuery plugin disclosed October 2018

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