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• Basic Laptop Security Prevents Identity Theft

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com In 2003, an estimated 1.5 million laptops were stolen worldwide. Today, that number has climbed to 2.6 million. That’s a 70% increase in just a few years. That’s one stolen laptop every 12 seconds. Laptop computers have ...
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• Simplified Analysis: Forging A Biometric ID

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Bozidar Spirovski , CISSP, MCSA, MCP But most of those issues are related to encryption, materials and generally anything that requires a lot of technical knowledge. Here is an example of the possibility to create a fake Biometric ID with very little technical knowledge. In order to understand this ...
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• Top 10 Identity Theft Predictions For 2010

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com I’ve joined forces with the Identity Theft Resource Center to expand the pool of knowledge about identity theft issues. As nationally recognized experts in this crime, we have come up with ten predictions for what the ...
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• Risk-Based Due Diligence for Supply Chains

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Thomas R. Fox, Attorney at Tom Fox Law Quick, as the Compliance Professional within your organization, which department or group of your company spends the most money annually? Did Supply Chain immediately come to mind? Probably not. Now just as quickly, how much of your compliance efforts are focused on ...
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• Facebook Stung By Social Media ID Theft

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com Imagine trying to log into your online accounts one after the other and being locked out. At first you think the site you are visiting screwed up but then it keeps happening over and over again no matter where you go. ...
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• ROI and the InfoSec Value Statement

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Steven Fox , Founder of SecureLexicon In my  podcast interview , NetWitness CSO Edward Schwartz stated that “we don’t have the kind of ROI stories in security that other industries have.” As a veteran of several IT events, I’ve been bombarded with various Return on Investment (ROI) ...
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• Lest We Forget About Enterprise Security

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Shubhendu Parth, CTO Forum Team CIOs are spending less time on supervising what they should be doing the most—strengthening the IT infrastructure and securing enterprise digital assets. Security may be a key thing that worries CIOs, but there are other things that keep him occupied these days. ...
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• Is Information Protection Even Possible?

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Danny Lieberman , Security Expert and Founder of Software Associates A Few Months ago I saw an article in ComputerWeekly that asked – Is data loss prevention possible? “Data is out of control in the corporate world…I think… the only way that we can have influence on the likelihood of (data ...
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• (ISC)2 Moves to Computer Based Testing

  
  (ISC)2 Blog — Authority: 106
  
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• Cloud Based Vulnerability Management

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Bozidar Spirovski , CISSP, MCSA, MCP Vulnerability and Compliance Management as Software as a Service (SaaS) are springing up like mushrooms. The SaaS model enabled companies which focused on vulnerability management to extend their reach, and offer the services to more and more potential clients. ...
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• Forgotten Security: Patching and Updating

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Simon Heron , CISSP Internet Security Analyst The fourth guide in our ‘Forgotten Security’ series, Forgotten Security: Keeping up to date , is targeted at IT teams, encouraging them to take another look at their procedures, ensuring that they cover both software and equipment. A fully updated system ...
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• Why There Will Be No Year Of The Cloud

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Dwayne Melancon , Tripwire’s VP of Corporate and Business Development I recently got an email talking about “the year of the cloud.” I call shenanigans. You see, I remember back in the olden days (back in the 1980’s) when magazines and industry luminaries would regularly declare each year to be ...
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• Anti-Money Laundering for Crime and Terror

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Michael O’Connor, President of IronClad Consulting Historically, to facilitate money laundering criminals opened a legitimate business as a cover, and then used the business account to deposit and legitimize large sums of money. Large deposits into accounts were routinely overlooked by banking ...
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• Technology And The Advent of Cyber War

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest A recent spate of news reports and scholarly publications have discussed the policy aspects of cyber war: offensive versus defensive, military buildup, and appropriate reactions. There have been no reports dealing with the technology of engaging in ...
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• PCI Council Advice on Threat Management

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com Security professionals intuitively think proactively. Our job  is to predict and prevent what the bad guy will do next. My job specifically is to instill this mindset into you, the consumer,  SMB or large corporate ...
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• Report: China Probing Soft Cyber Underbelly

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Tom Groenfeldt , Technology Journalist - Contributor at CIOZone Chinese cyber attacks against the U.S. government and American corporations are increasing sharply, according to a recent study by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission . Established by Congress in 2000, the commission ...
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• Exploring the Social Media Security Quandary

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Mike Meikle , CEO at Hawkthorne Group Social Media (Web 2.0) is on everyone’s lips these days. A million gurus have sprung up nearly overnight to cash in on the phenomena. Social Media has been promoted as the next big trend in productivity enhancement and a key to opening the coffers of ...
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• 10 Holiday Tips For Secure Online Shopping

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com UK officials shut down an amazing 1200 online retailers who scammed millions from unsuspecting shoppers. Most of the sites originated from identity thieves in Asia who tricked victims into believing they were legitimate ...
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• Open Source Software Design Spurs Growth

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Semyon Dukach , Author and Angel Investor You have to be a little nuts to try to start a new business, considering that most attempts fail after consuming the savings of the entrepreneur’s family. But to start a new non-profit you must be downright insane, in the way of young idealists hopelessly in love, ...
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• Data Breaches Show PCI DSS Ineffective

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Danny Lieberman , Security Expert and Founder of Software Associates A recent Ponemon survey ( pci-dss-survey-key-findings-final4 ) found 71% of companies don’t consider PCI as strategic, though 79% had experienced a breach. Are these companies assuming that a data security breach is cheaper than the ...
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