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Technical Glitches: Coincidence or Cyberattack?

This week we read about four major internet outages that caused a wide amount of consternation and worry: United Airlines, the NYSE, the Wall Street Journal and today, Ameritrade. While these events appear to have been “technical glitches” with software and/or hardware, the potential enormity…

MainNerve selected as a finalist for “Colorado Companies To Watch”

Having come from a nominee and applicant pool of 1,024 companies across Colorado, MainNerve was recognized as one of 100 Finalists in the “Colorado Companies to Watch.” MainNerve will be recently noted in ColoradoBiz Magazine this summer along with the fifty winners. The criteria for…

MainNerve Aides in Major Human Trafficking Bust

In April 2014, MainNerve donated cyber forensics gear and other technology to Exodus Road, a non-profit which has supported the resuces of 326 sex slaves in three short years. The Exodus Road worked to transport MainNerve’s equipment over to partners in SE Asia. It was…

Adventure Team Odyessy/MainNerve Will Race to Support the Green Beret Foundation.

MainNerve, a privately held cybersecurity company, sponsors team to honor charity that supports Special Forces and their families. March 20, 2015 – Colorado Springs, CO. MainNerve announced today it will be sponsoring the Odyssey/MainNerve adventure racing team in a series of races, some of which…

The President’s Executive Order on Information Sharing… An Unnecessary Act

As I read the President’s Executive order last week, I was amazed at how government officials can spend so much time preparing the public for a grand political statement that will benefit all Americans and then, when so much is expected, so little is gained.…

State of the Union Thoughts

As I watched the State of the Union speech, I waited for almost an hour to hear the President mention some of the cybersecurity initiatives that were released last week to titillate government, businesses and consumers to believing that, for once, cybersecurity was going to…

Cyber Security and IT: Separate Them

Small and mid-size companies frequently ask how to organize their cyber security assets and responsibilities to best protect their companies. This is more a question of function than of form, and it requires companies to challenge some assumptions about their IT departments as well as…

Should I In-Source or Out-Source Cyber Security?

It is the current bane of many small and midsize businesses to determine whether to in- or out-source their cyber security measures. With all the news in 2014 regarding retail and financial hacking, (unofficially dubbed “the year of the hack”), businesses are reaching deeper into…