Blog Posts Tagged with "IT Security"
The Search for Infosec Minds
November 01, 2012 Added by:Ian Tibble
Since the early 2000s, I have commented in different forms on the state of play, with a large degree of cynicism, which was greeted with cold reservation, smirks, grunts, and various other types of un-voiced displeasure, up to around 2009 or so. But since at least 2010, how things have changed...
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Admin Rights - Your Achilles Heel
October 31, 2012 Added by:Paul Kenyon
Every organization experiences user frustrations and complications that result in support calls to the help desk. While each call may seem to suggest a unique problem, there could be a common root cause amongst them. Help desk calls often seem to be black and white – the machine works and now it doesn’t...
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The Security Reality of Road Warriors
October 28, 2012 Added by:Barrie Hadfield
Marketing and sales professionals will, inevitability, require a cloud-based collaboration processes or they face a potential competitive disadvantage. Therefore, IT executives are best-served by investigating the rate at which their employees are using unsanctioned tools that facilitate potential breaches...
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On the Lack of IT Readiness: The Security Edition
September 30, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Sticking to the basics wouldn't be such a bad thing in Security... if we had a clue on how to do the basics right. I know plenty of people who pentest all day every day and they'll be the first to tell you how easy it is to break in because defenses are so weak, if they exist at all...
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Metaphorically Speaking...
September 24, 2012 Added by:Tripwire Inc
Security people tend to be engineering oriented and suffer in the communication department. There’s an implied link that security might get broader adoption if security communication had more resonance with non-security people. Enter the popular use of the metaphor as meme...
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Security and the Enterprise: Connect What?
September 20, 2012 Added by:Tripwire Inc
We’re going to use the phrase “Connecting security to the business” with almost annoying frequency because it can change the way the business views security, and vice versa. This begs a primer of sorts: What do we mean by all this “connecting security to the business” talk?
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Enterprise Security: Being Your Own Worst Enemy
August 30, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Enterprise security organizations can be their own worst enemies. Security is largely disconnected from the business, largely dependent on technology, and unable to be anything more than a cost center... and it seems like the more we rant and wave our arms the deeper the hole gets...
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Your Organizational Chart Tells a Security Story
August 28, 2012 Added by:Tripwire Inc
The common reason to push the security team over to the side or down the org chart is due to a belief that what they do isn’t a core value proposition for the company. By reinforcing the idea that security is low priority it creates impediments for the business and the security team to negotiate risk and work collaboratively...
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On Infosec Friends
August 24, 2012 Added by:Javvad Malik
They are the guys who you look out for and they look out for you. If you see a bug in their code, you’ll sort it out for them. When they call you up at 3am for help with a security strategy presentation, you stay up with them all night working on it. When you are stuck on something, you’ll turn to them for help....
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BYOD: Challenges of Protecting Data - Part Three
August 06, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
BYOD is going to take the many small holes in your environment and drive a semi truck through them... blowing a hole the size of a Buick in what security we have now. And it's not just because BYOD is going to happen whether you like it or not - but because we need to fix this train wreck we call corporate security...
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How to Become a Network Security Engineer
July 18, 2012 Added by:InfoSec Institute
While no two jobs are alike, there are some specific skills that will help network security engineers face the various challenges they will face day to day. What follows are just a handful of specific skills and duties required of network security engineers...
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Infosec: Is it Really OK to Say No?
July 16, 2012 Added by:Scott Thomas
Our job isn't to run the business or set direction, our job is to tell the ones at the helm that building a boat out of tin foil is a bad idea. We need to change the sign on the door from "Department of No" to "How does this affect our risk-posture?" and realize even then sometimes you need to say "No"...
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The Resilient Enterprise: Learning to Fail Part 2
June 25, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Failing with the support of a DevOps tribe can lead to a more resilient enterprise and ultimately better enterprise security. In the following few sections we're going to take a look at combining tools, processes and the tribe mentality to solve some otherwise ugly problems - and come out the other side...
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The Resilient Enterprise: Learning to Fail
June 22, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
If the agile enterprise is to become a reality, not just something we talk about and write books about, then it needs to be a core ideal, served by every technical and non-technical function and products and services to enable that core ideal. The road to the agile enterprise starts with an awakening to DevOps...
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The Resilient Enterprise: Taming Chaos with Automation
June 20, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Whatever the incident or failure, the system can detect and respond in an automated fashion as long as its within the realm of known things. When things fail or break in a new way that has never been seen before, the system will take corrective action to restore service to the best of its ability...
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Misunderstanding Trust
June 20, 2012 Added by:Kevin W. Wall
I thought that most of the properties of trust were obvious, but was surprised to see someone in security quote a Microsoft software developer that “trust is not transitive”. Apparently there are still software and security engineers who misunderstand trust. I will attempt to clear up this misunderstanding...
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- Improving Security by Failing Faster
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