About Joe Conrad

Joe Conrad is the Security Operations Manager at Louisville Geek, where he leads efforts to help businesses strengthen cybersecurity, reduce risk, and stay ahead of emerging threats. He specializes in security operations, compliance, threat protection, and helping organizations create safer, more resilient technology environments.

Entries by Joe Conrad

Campaign to Fight Hackers Continues

Formerly “Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection”, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 offers a line of protection tools in an Office 365 subscription. With the right subscription you can have many of these tools right at your fingertips.

Common Misconceptions Surrounding Hacking We’ve Heard in Louisville Kentucky

Since launching our Cyber Security department in 2019, we’ve received a whirlwind of questions surrounding this developing business need. While some of these questions involve understanding the motives or methods of hacking, many revolve around the criminals that perpetrate these damaging attacks on businesses. Today we would like to highlight just how complex this issue can be and address the more common misconceptions we hear from both large and small businesses looking to learn more and start engaging in preventative measures to protect against hacking attempts.

10 ways to tighten up your security game

Last week, Louisville Geek was asked to speak at a Business Development Luncheon, hosted by Republic Bank. The topic of our presentation was cybersecurity, so we decided to come up with 10 things you can do in 10 days to better protect yourself from cybercrime. The following is a rundown of what we presented.