OneTrust Privacy Management Platform

OneTrust helps companies comply with data protection and privacy regulations across sectors and jurisdictions, including the EU GDPR. The FREE edition of their platform supports the implementation of data protection and privacy impact assessments (PIA or DPIA), vendor risk assessments, and other compliance and risk assessments. Limited to one admin, but unlimited usage, including website scanning & cookie compliance for 1 website. See: http://onetrust.com/free-edition/

FREE Privileged Access Management Solution

Osirium’s PxM Express privileged access management (PAM) solution is free for up to 25 devices, forever. PxM Express ensures that privileged account credentials never exist upon the user’s workstation, making interception an impossibility. Setup is quick and straightforward, via a downloadable VM image. For more info see: https://www.osirium.com/privileged-access-security/pam-express-download

Check That Your Twitter Followers Are Human

TrueTwit is a validation service for Twitter, letting you know that your followers aren't bots. New followers are direct messaged a validation request. If they successfully complete the CAPTCHA (or already a TrueTwit user), you are sent an email indicating they are a TrueTwit-validated human! For a FREE TrueTwit Basic account, see: http://www.truetwit.com

FREE Cyber Security Skills for the Real World

Hacker Highschool (HHS) is collection free lesson books written for a teen audience. Lessons are produced ISECOM and translated into 12 languages. All lessons work with a free "live linux" CD and topics covered include: Being a Hacker, Essential Commands, Beneath the Internet, Playing With Daemons, System Identification, Hacking Malware, Attack Analysis, Forensics, Hacking Email, Web Security and Privacy, Hacking Passwords. See: http://www.hackerhighschool.org/lessons.html

Top 20 Online Security Blogs to Look Out For in 2017

As online security and data privacy are two of the hottest topics there is in IT at the moment, vpnMentor rounded up the best online security bloggers to look out for in 2017. vpnMentor's reviews are not based on advertising; but real experiences, will full, detailed advice on anything and everything VPN related. This includes easy-to-read guides on hard-to-understand subjects, in 27 languages. See: www.vpnmentor.com/blog/top-20-online-security-blogs/

Monthly Security Update Review

The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), is a program for rewarding security researchers for responsibly disclosing vulnerabilities. But for everyone else their blog has an excellent monthly security update review. See: https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog

FREE Bitdefender Security Software

    

Bitdefender now offers over 11 free security tools. Over 7 are for Windows and Mac that can enhance your antivirus, especially if you are relying on the built-in antivirus for Windows or have no Mac antivirus.  While 4 are for Android mobiles. See: www.bitdefender.com/toolbox/

FREE Microsoft eBook Giveaway!

Microsoft Director of Sales Excellence - Eric Ligman is kicking off his annual FREE MICROSOFT EBOOK GIVEAWAY extravaganza!  This time with over 250 eBooks, including: Windows 10, Office 365, Office 2016, Power BI, Azure, Windows 8.1, Office 2013, SharePoint 2016, SharePoint 2013, Dynamics CRM, PowerShell, Exchange Server, System Center, Cloud, SQL Server and more!
See: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mssmallbiz/2017/07/11/....

12 Zero Cost Cyber Security Steps for Business

Improving cyber security in your business is not just about spending money. These 12 practical steps do not cost anything other than your time, even if you implement only a few of them, it could make all the difference. See: https://www.booleanlogical.com/internet-security/

Check If You Are Vulnerable To EternalBlue

EternalBlue is the name given to the NSA exploit used by the WannaCry and NotPetya attacks. Eternal Blues is a free EternalBlue vulnerability scanner. It helps finding the blind spots in your network, these endpoints that are still vulnerable to EternalBlue. See: http://omerez.com/eternalblues/

FREE Security Awareness Training & Tools

KnowBe4 is an integrated Security Awareness Training and Simulated Phishing platform, with over 8 FREE tools. These include a phish alert button, phishing security test, email exposure check, domain spoof test, ransomware simulator, USB security test, weak password test and a training preview. See: www.knowbe4.com

Chrome Cleanup Tool

This free application from Google will scan and remove software that may cause problems with Chrome, such as crashes, unusual startup pages or toolbars, unexpected ads you can't get rid of, or otherwise changing your browsing experience. Available for Windows 10/8.1/8/7: https://www.google.com/chrome/cleanup-tool/

Rapid Audit & Inspection Reports

It is not often I post about a paid app, but if any part of your job involves taking photos and creating task reports based on those photos, this is a real time saver. Site Audit Pro lets you quickly generate snagging PDF reports (even without typing) and annotate your photos so everyone is clear about what needs to be done. Available for iOS at £16.99 with all themes and Android for £6.99 + in-app purchases. See: http://www.siteauditpro.com/

BgInfo Has Finally Been Updated

An update to BgInfo was released on Windows Sysinternals in February 2017 and is now on v4.21, which correctly reports Windows 10.

For those unfamiliar with BgInfo, it automatically displays relevant information about a Windows computer on the desktop's background, such as the computer name, IP address, service pack version, and more. See: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bginfo.aspx

FREE Phishing Assessment Tool

Duo Insight is a free phishing assessment tool by Duo Security that allows you to identify your vulnerable users. Choose from a preset, and Duo will send a customised phishing email to a chosen group of your users. Users' credentials will not be collected or exposed to Duo.
After the campaign, Duo will send you a customised report that makes the business case for the security investments that keep your users safe.
See: https://duo.com/resources/duo-insight

Freeze Malware Processes

Rkill is a free utility that lets you freeze any malware processes that may be preventing your security software from removing them. Available for Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10, see: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/rkill/

Create bootable USB drives in Windows

Rufus is a small free utility that helps quickly format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc. It can be especially useful for cases where you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.) for machine that do not have a DVD drive.

Available for Windows XP or later, see: https://rufus.akeo.ie/