Andrew Harmon was the Director of Marketing for Firewalls.com, co-host of the Ping podcast, and engineer-to-English translator of the network security lexicon. Andrew focused on creating content for small business owners and cybersecurity novices to make this crucial facet of modern business more approachable for non-experts everywhere.
The data breach affecting Capital One is a costly reminder that strong security measures are not the only piece of the data protection puzzle. A misconfigured firewall was the reported door that the perpetrator used to gain access.