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Industrial Control Industry Slow to Adopt Security Configuration Management: Survey
November 13, 2013 Added by:InfosecIsland News
Tripwire unveiled the results of a study comparing risk-based security management in the industrial sector to that of other industries.
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Security Advisor Alliance, A Nonprofit of Elite CISOs giving back to the community.
November 12, 2013 Added by:Jason Clark
Security Advisor Alliance is a nonprofit group of Top security leaders from the Global 1000 who have come together to donate time each week to help our peers in any area of security as a pro-bono service.
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If you Knew you Were Going to be Attacked, What Would you do Differently?
August 14, 2013 Added by:Bill Wheeler
Recent reports have found that cyberattacks against U.S. corporations are on the rise, along with an increase in international threats, especially from China, and emerging threats to small businesses. Today, it’s not a matter of if an organization will be the victim of a cyberattack, but when.
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Cyber Security and Terrorism – See Something, Say Something
August 08, 2013 Added by:Jon Stout
he existing cyber security computing model of the past decade, based on firewalls, anti-viral services, intrusion detection controls, etc., is no longer adequate to help organizations mitigate cyber-security risk.
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Cyber Security Failures: Value of the Human Firewall
August 07, 2013 Added by:Jon Stout
The computing security model of the past decade, based on firewalls, anti-viral services, intrusion detection controls, system event monitoring, VPNs, etc., is failing to detect and block the most advanced malware. That is serious enough. But what’s worse is that this traditional defense model is of little use in preventing what many experts feel is the greatest threat to cyber security: human e...
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Cyber Security and Social Engineering – A True Case Study
August 01, 2013 Added by:Jon Stout
There are powerful integrated security dashboards that can be installed and modified to meet each user’s particular needs. Now a company can create hundreds if not thousands of employee cyber warriors with a relatively small investment.
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CISOs Share Top 10 Tips for Managing IT Security Vendors
July 31, 2013 Added by:InfosecIsland News
Austin-based Wisegate has released a report that provides top 10 tips from leading CISOs to help IT professionals manage security vendors.
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Cyber Security – Is Offensive Cyber Security Necessary?
July 31, 2013 Added by:Jon Stout
The country is at war and it is a cyber security war. The enemies are many, diverse and competent and fighting a defensive war is not the best way to win. Cyber security war is like any other war- taking the offensive will improve your chances of success. Like any other war, the cyber security war requires proper planning for success and a total winning strategy. Half hearted measures will not ...
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Top Secret SCI Jobs - The Value of Smaller Contractors
July 30, 2013 Added by:Jon Stout
You can be doing all the right things, adding immense value to your customer and helping your company build a great brand. When a contract changes even incumbents are suddenly “on the bench” or “between projects” or “on overhead” . You are no longer billable. As a result you have now moved from a profit-generator to a cost center. When this happens you are at risk.
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Webcast: Addressing the Open Doors in Your APT Strategy
July 10, 2013 Added by:InfosecIsland News
With APTs leveraging these weaknesses, it’s critical to have visibility and control of enterprise key and certificate inventories. Cyber criminals understand that the easy targets are those organizations that have little visibility into their threat surface and cannot respond quickly. We need to gain control over trust; we need to plug the gap related to key & certificate-based exploits. (Re...
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NSS Labs' Defense In Depth Testing Reveals Weaknesses In Traditional Layered IT Security Strategies; No Clear And Present Winners
July 10, 2013 Added by:Joe Franscella
At the end of May, NSS Labs released its Correlation of Detection Failures report. In an accompanying news release, Are Security Professionals Overconfident in “Defense in Depth?”, the company said it was the culmination of a comprehensive in-lab test revealing that popular layered technology combinations are failing to protect organizations against exploits.
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Enough to Know
July 05, 2013 Added by:Chris Blask
As we consider the construction of national and global situational awareness systems to secure our manifestly complex infrastructure we run into a range of hurdles. How do we get huge amounts of data from millions of facilities? How do we keep these vast pools of knowledge from becoming an Achilles' Heel that attackers leverage to bring down everything at once?
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There is no Onion - The Painful Reality of Defense in Depth
June 26, 2013 Added by:Rafal Los
Imagine if you woke up tomorrow morning and it was conclusively proven that the layered onion model was proven to fail in several circumstances commonly deployed and used in today’s enterprise. That would sure explain much of the failure we’ve seen across enterprise breaches, wouldn’t it?
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Cyber Attacks the Reality, the Reason and the Resolution Part 3
June 24, 2013 Added by:Larry Karisny
Knowing the reality and reasons behind cyberattacks, it’s time to stop talking and start offering resolution to these serious problems. There is no "it won’t happen to me" anymore. We must immediately deploy prevention and detection technologies to our critical processes or frankly, we could lose it all.
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From the SMB to Security Guru: Five Ways IT Pros Can Manage Security on a Budget
June 14, 2013 Added by:Vinod Mohan
Given the expanding threat landscape for the SMB and the increased demand for affordable IT security tools, here are five valuable tips for IT pros that help shed light on managing enterprise security on a budget.
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Bridging the Cybersecurity Divide, Why Security Innovation Must Lead the Way
May 16, 2013 Added by:Francis Cianfrocca
Despite years of engineering, programming, reverse engineering, product development and a generous amount of FUD-driven marketing, the information security industry (loosely defined as representing the forces of good) lags far behind the innovation and sophistication of modern malware perpetrated by the forces of evil.
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