Items Tagged with "Infosec"
Open Call for Interviews: Hacker Halted Miami
October 03, 2011 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Open Call: Infosec Island will be conducting a series of video interviews with attendees at the Hacker Halted conference in Miami, FL in late October. The interviews offer the opportunity for companies to highlight their knowledge of emerging trends in the information security field...
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Hacker Halted: 10% Discount plus Get a Free iPad2 and 2 Nights Accommodations
September 30, 2011 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Special for Infosec Island Members: Attend EC-Council's signature event in Miami - Hacker Halted USA - and get a free iPad2 + two nights hotel + an additional 10% discount when signing up for the conference pass or for selected training. Offer ends September 30, 2011...
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Rafal Los Tapped as HP's Cloud Security Strategist
September 29, 2011
Hewlett-Packard's Software division has tapped Infosec Island contributor Rafal Los for the position of Enterprise and Cloud Security Strategist. Los combines over a decade of deep technical expertise in information security and risk management with a critical business perspective...
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Infosec Island Request for Interviews: Hacker Halted
September 29, 2011 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Open Call: Infosec Island will be conducting a series of video interviews with companies and vendors at the Hacker Halted conference in Miami, FL in late October. The interviews offer the opportunity for companies to highlight their knowledge of emerging trends in the information security field...
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Digital Evidence and Computer Crime
September 28, 2011 Added by:Ben Rothke
When it comes to digital crime, the evidence is often at the byte level, deep in the magnetics of digital media, invisible to the human eye. That is just one of the challenges of digital forensics, where it is easy to destroy crucial evidence and often difficult to preserve it correctly...
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Hacker Halted: Register for Training - Get a Free iPad
September 27, 2011 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Hacker Halted offers more than 70 speakers and a very comprehensive agenda covering major hot topics surrounding information security across four dedicated tracks. Receive a free iPad and 2 nights accommodations when you sign up for selected training or a conference pass...
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How to Prepare for the ISO 27001 Certification Audit
September 26, 2011 Added by:Dejan Kosutic
In Stage 1 audit (called Documentation review) the certification auditor checks whether your documentation is compliant with ISO 27001; in Stage 2 audit (also called Main audit) the auditor checks whether all your activities are compliant with both ISO 27001 and your documentation...
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Strutting and Fretting Upon the Security Stage: The Playing Field
September 22, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
There are too many ways that a company can open itself up to vulnerabilities. It takes a rounded approach to do the due diligence for that company’s security posture. The information security business has become a leviathan of competing entities from the quacks to the bleeding edge...
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Infosec Island Call for Interviews: Hacker Halted - Miami
September 22, 2011 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Infosec Island will be conducting a series of video interviews with companies and vendors at the Hacker Halted conference in Miami, FL in late October. The interviews offer the opportunity for companies to highlight their knowledge of emerging trends in the information security field...
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Creating a Culture of Security
September 21, 2011 Added by:Jim Anderson
Infosec practitioners tend to look for "bright shiny objects" and focus on those as the centerpiece of their programs. Often, training is an afterthought and awareness is relegated to "lunch and learn" status. Ross does an excellent job of covering the benefits of a constructive security culture...
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Information Warfare Directory
September 19, 2011 Added by:Joel Harding
There are literally tons of websites out there dealing with information warfare, information operations, psychological warfare, military information support operations and a myriad of topics. This website is not bad, not bad at all, it’s just not good....
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Hacker Halted Conference and Training Giveaway
September 19, 2011 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
We have lined up more than 70 speakers for this year's event, and designed a comprehensive agenda covering major topics in information security across 4 dedicated tracks. Receive a free iPad and 2 nights accommodations when you sign up for selected training or conference pass...
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Plagiarism and the Security Professional part 2
September 19, 2011 Added by:Craig S Wright
Writers have taken Gregory D. Evans, “author” of "World’s No. 1 Hacker" book to task for stealing vast blocks of other people’s work. Yet these people remain. Despite their frauds in passing off a level of expertise they do not actually possess, people trust these security doppelgangers...
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Strutting and Fretting Upon the Security Stage: The Players
September 16, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
There will always be elements within the company with impetus to not take your advice on security matters and maybe even give you a large amount of pushback. This is especially true of any company that has little to no security posture to start with. So who are the key client players?
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Security BSides is Coming to Dallas / Fort Worth
September 16, 2011 Added by:Security BSides
Each BSides is a community-driven framework for building events for and by information security community members. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. It is where conversations for the next-big-thing are happening. You don’t want to miss it...
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Internet Piracy, Plagiarism and the Security Professional
September 16, 2011 Added by:Craig S Wright
The issue is that some in the security industry leverage the works of others coupled with external promotion to seem more than they are. We all suffer for this, and in a field as critical as security the costs can be disproportionate to the damage an individual could seem to be able to create...