#NJVCommentary

Anyone who ever told you not to judge book by its cover never picked up a copy of Verizon's latest Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR).

The 2014 edition of the benchmark yearly volume covers 57 pages of text and 1,367 discrete breaches among 63,437 security incidents in 2013, yet the most important two numbers are lifted right from the cover: 92 and nine.

Of the more than 100,000 incidents investigated in the decade Verizon that has published the report, 92 percent fall within nine attack patterns.

Chuck Norris doesn’t need cyber security. His IT enterprise sits behind his own custom-built firewall. Or as you probably call it, the sun.

Norris, the consummate tough guy who did for roundhouse kicks to the chops what Microsoft did for operating systems, celebrates his 74^th birthday today (or, more accurately, as one Twitter wag posits, 74 celebrates its association with Chuck Norris). The happy occasion lit up social media as well as our cyber security staff meeting with proposed new Chuck Norris facts.

Candy hearts are a Valentine's tradition. So too should regular checks of your cyber security posture be a regular tradition for your IT enterprise.

So, to meld one great one tradition with another, NJVC offers seven cyber talking points in candy heart form. 

We don't advise printing them out and eating them. Then again, you might not be able to tell the difference.

For about half of all Americans, your stove may be teaching you something invaluable about data privacy. Or perhaps it’s your heating system or outdoor grill.

For roughly 70 million households, the use of natural gas isn’t just a way to keep warm or a tool to learn that cleaning S’mores from fireplaces is a task fit only to produce great clouds of profanity; it’s a lesson that data privacy begins with data awareness and a holistic review of your enterprise.