Items Tagged with "Training"
ICS-CERT: From the Trenches - A Tabletop Exercise
May 22, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Incident response is critical. During a real incident, you don’t want to discover major gaps in policy/procedure and/or technology tools. The collaboration that occurs during the exercise helps to understand the roles and responsibilities that each of us have during cyber attacks...
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Infosec and the Death of the Rabbi
May 18, 2012 Added by:Carter Schoenberg
What is more valuable, a SCADA security pro that understands a plant with such detail that his knowledge may never be rivaled, or a person who can also understand the organizations mission need and business drivers and can translate security into quantified risk measurements...
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NIST Workshop: The Technical Aspects of Botnets
May 16, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
NIST seeks to engage all stakeholders to identify the available and needed technologies and tools to recognize, prevent, and remediate botnets; explore current and future efforts to develop botnet metrics and methodologies for measuring and reporting botnet metrics over time...
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Security BSides Detroit Announces its June Schedule
May 15, 2012 Added by:Steven Fox, CISSP, QSA
The BSides conference is billed as a un-conference where practitioners go for clear unfiltered view of the industry. The conference features two tracks and thirty-two talks of local and national experts on a variety technical and non-technical subjects...
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FBI Guidance of Combating the Insider Threat
May 15, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
The thief who is harder to detect and who could cause the most damage is the insider — the employee with legitimate access. They may steal solely for personal gain or be a “spy”—someone who is stealing company information or products in order to benefit another organization or country...
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Are We Reaching Security Conference Overload?
May 14, 2012 Added by:Tom Eston
We have more security and hacking conferences than ever, but now there is also more overlap. These choices can make it harder for researchers to present new and relevant content and also tough to decide which conferences to attend from a attendee perspective...
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BSides London and Infosec Europe 2012
May 11, 2012
So I guess the one thing you can take away from it all is that if you want to speak to CISO’s and heads of security or other high-flying execs, the easiest way to do so is get yourself a camera, a microphone and a press pass to an event and they will be like putty in your hands...
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Webinar: Keeping Your Open Source Software Secure
May 09, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Understand why collaboration is invaluable in keeping proprietary systems secure. Learn how to share private information in public forums without harming your organization. Identify what tools are available to your organization for collaboration, notification, and knowledge-sharing...
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CISSP Reloaded Domain 7: Applications and Systems Development
May 09, 2012 Added by:Javvad Malik
Secure applications aren’t the result of evolution or chance conditions coming together. Secure applications are only created with a definite degree of intelligent design. You, as the security person are responsible for providing that intelligent design into the application...
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Infosec Island Seeks Industry Partners for Security Conferences
May 07, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Through a combination of custom content publication that features products and services, video interviews with company personnel onsite, and traditional banner ad campaigns, organizations can better leverage the impact of attendance and participation at key industry events...
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Hacking-Kung Fu: Aims and Objectives Part 2
May 07, 2012 Added by:Quintius Walker
A major aim of Kung-Fu Hacking training is System Security - or more so being able to secure your own systems. This ability to defend ourselves is a general asset, and has long-term benefits as more and more vulnerabilities become exploitable to the general public...
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Fear and Loathing in Infosec: The Black Mass
May 02, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
Gesticulating and making odd sounds, the hackers milled and jerked around like some strange species of black raptors. Babbling incoherently about arcane knowledge in the hopes of one upping the other hapless technoweens in the room....
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Cyber Warriors Shine in NSA Competition
May 01, 2012 Added by:Headlines
During the competition, NSA network specialists and military network experts formed the red cell team that challenged cadet blue cell teams to defend a closed-computer network that the cadets designed, built and configured at their respective academies...
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National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC)
May 01, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
"The Department of Homeland Security is proud to be one of the sponsors of this competition that took place over the course of three days and focused on the operational aspects of securing and defending a 'commercial' network infrastructure..."
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ENISA: Cyber Exercise Stocktaking Survey
April 30, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
As cyber crises occur on larger scales, managing them effectively requires international cooperation. ENISA would like to take stock of national and international cyber exercise efforts worldwide. The result of this project will be a global map of cyber exercises...
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Experts Talk Security Awareness: Black Hat EU 2012 Finale
April 30, 2012
At Black Hat Europe 2012, we asked the experts for their views on the importance of user security awareness training and what the common issues are with such initiatives. Javvad's coverage of Black Hat Europe courtesy of Infosec Island and NETpeas...
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Your Own Private Island
December 24, 2011Coming Soon! Build your own Island right here!
Make your home Infosec Island with your own private vanity URL, design options and private network of followers.
Infosec Island v2
December 24, 2011The latest version of Infosec Island is now available. There are more content options and more ways to connect and interact with your peers.
Thanks to everyone for a great year, and we're looking forward to an excellent 2012!