Items Tagged with "Security Awareness"
Lockheed Martin's Rip-0ff of Your IP - By Contest Entry
September 08, 2012 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
Lockheed Martin has announced a contest which awards $50,000 to the winners of "Innovate The Future Challenge: How Might We Enable A More Secure Future For Our Planet?". They want you to share your ideas on how to solve that for free. Sound good? You'd better read the fine print...
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2012 Norton Cybercrime Report Presents a Worrisome Scenario
September 06, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
With 556 million of victims per year, 2 of 3 adults have been victims of online crime in their lifetime, with a total economic loss of 110 Billion and an average cost per victim of $197. The trend demonstrates the need to put in place a massive awareness campaign...
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Security Metrics: Five Tips
September 03, 2012 Added by:Tripwire Inc
By Dwayne Melancon - I was in a session with someone who provides security consulting, picking his brain for what is working as he helps organizations translate security into something meaningful to the business. This is the paraphrased version
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Assessing Risk Management Culture to Better Understand the Characteristics of ERM Programs
August 27, 2012 Added by:Michele Westergaard
The past 24 months have seen a number of disasters bring risk management to the forefront of executives and board directors. Whether natural disasters such as the Japanese Tsunami or man-made such as the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, fat-tail disasters have created a renewed interest in enterprise risk management...
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Cyber Attacks Increasingly Target Small Companies
August 26, 2012 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
Your company may not be the primary target, an attacker may use your organization as a stepping-stone to attack another. Don't be the weakest link in the supply chain. Information is power, the attackers know this, and successful attacks can result in significant financial loss...
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Marketing to the Cynical, Skeptical, and Jaded
August 24, 2012 Added by:Jack Daniel
Words like engagement and community are overused by charlatans, marketing gurus, and social media experts- but if you cut the crap and actually engage the community, people will pay attention. Influencer is another abused term, but some people have more of a voice in the community than others. Ignoring people who aren’t ready to buy could be a very bad idea...
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Misinformation and Manipulation in the Age of Social Media
August 21, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
Terms such as revolutionary, and groundbreaking are often used in reference to the web and social media. The web and social media have also been so for scammers, thieves, liars, manipulators, and the like who use social media in a big way. To avoid being caught in their lair, it is imperative to know the risks...
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The Day I Was Erased Digitally
August 17, 2012 Added by:Theresa Payton
It’s everyone’s worst night nightmare - everything digital in your life gets wiped out. Your phone, your computer, your tablet, every email address, social network profile. It really does happen, and most of you probably didn’t know that even techies and security experts worry about this happening to them...
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Is a Password Enough? A Closer Look at Authentication
August 16, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Yahoo and LinkedIn were recently breached and usernames and passwords were stolen. These sites did something wrong that allowed those passwords to get hacked. However passwords themselves are too hackable. If multi-factor authentication was used, then the hacks may be a moot point and the data useless...
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Relating Responsibility and Liability: At the Core of BYOD
August 15, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Does it make sense to repurpose "security awareness" to be inclusive of corporate and personal responsibility? Should we have users sign agreements that make them aware they are responsible, personally, when bad things happen as a result of their actions? Should there be HR actions against users who are reckless?
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Not Providing Education is the Dumbest Idea for Infosec
August 14, 2012 Added by:Rebecca Herold
Every year or so, an otherwise smart information security professional publishes some really bad information security advice about how awareness and training is a waste of time and money. Bottom line for all organizations: Humans have always been and will always be the weakest link in security...
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Ask the Experts: Facebook Security for Teenagers
August 14, 2012 Added by:Brent Huston
"Watch the scams and traps that are strewn like land mines throughout the site. Watch the free give-aways, be wary of clicking on pictures and videos and look carefully at any messages that contain links or suggest web sites to visit. Also, be VERY careful about ‘friends’ of friends..."
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Why is a Password Manager Not Yet a Hot Selling App?
August 13, 2012 Added by:Gurudatt Shenoy
What is the solution to preventing security Armageddon if passwords are not going away soon and people are going to use the same password for all their accounts? I did find a solution for this couple of years back. It is called a password generator and will generate a unique password for storage and management...
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Why Effective Awareness Training Matters
August 12, 2012 Added by:Brent Hutfless
Training and education are key elements to securing data. The advances in detection and monitoring solutions have placed more capable tools in the security professional’s toolbox, but APT attacks have grown in sophistication and perseverance – often leading to successful attacks and subsequent data loss...
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Security Information Addict
August 12, 2012 Added by:Scott Thomas
Part of the infosec profession is staying abreast of news and events. You need to know what attacks are going on in order to know how to defend against them. The problem with this is that it consumes all your free time. What you start to realize though, is you become addicted to information overload...
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Teenage Olympics: Pouts, Pot and Piddle
August 12, 2012 Added by:Kelly Colgan
Identity theft is one area where the ignorance of children and their parents can be more costly than a wobbly landing or delayed start off the blocks. It can hamper their ability to secure funding to attend college or buy a car, and to land a job. Children aren’t the only ones who are vulnerable to identity theft...




