Security Best Practices

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• US Navy Successfully Tests Cloud Based IaaS

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 534
  By Kevin L. Jackson , Vice President at Dataline Last month as part of the Navy’s annual Trident Warrior exercise, Dataline, LLC successfully demonstrated, that a standard shipboard communications infrastructure could be used to manage a commercial cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform. ...
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• Comcast Homepage Hackers Indicted

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 534
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert One hacked email address led to the defacement of Comcast’s homepage. When the hackers called Comcasts technical contact to let them know all 200 Comcast domain names and Comcast homepage were vulnerable, he hung up on them. It has not been disclosed how ...
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• Telecommuting and Enterprise Security

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 534
  By Simon Heron , CISSP Internet Security Analyst We’ve just released a free guide for businesses on securing remote workers . Remote working, or working from home, is becoming increasingly popular as companies seek the economic benefits of moving some of its team out of the office, or having employees ...
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• Cyber Security Red Flags For Insurance

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 534
  By Laton McCartney , Editor at CIOZone Companies that offer cyber and technology risk and liability insurance typically require potential customers to fill out extensive questionnaires that measure their vulnerably. They start with basic questions: Are you a public company? Have you been in any actual ...
  3 days ago

• Online Money Mules Aide Theft and Fraud

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 534
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Mules are relatively unaware people who get hooked into a “small business” or employment that is a function of a criminal enterprise. The mules often respond to “help wanted” ads from online job placement sites. Shipping scams are a common tactic ...
  5 days ago

• Effective Security Policy Messaging Important

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 534
  By Christopher Burgess , Senior Security Adviser End users tuning you out? Here’s a three-step process for taking human factors into account in your security program (and even using them to your advantage). Let us begin with the premise that security policies exist to protect an entity’s assets as it ...
  6 days ago

• Windows Security Logs and MS Log Parser

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 534
  By Bozidar Spirovski , CISSP, MCSA, MCP When investigating an intrusion in a Windows system, one of the first places to start is the Windows security log. Security event log is also very useful for analysis when searching for anomalies and possible intrusions. Reading through a Windows security log ...
  6 days ago

• ATM on Craigslist Loaded with Card Data

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 534
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert After the Vegas DEFCON ATM debacle where hackers hacked hackers by setting up a fake ATM in front of the facilities security office, I needed to see how stupid easy it was to buy and ATM and just set it up anywhere. So my search began. I started looking on ...
  1 week ago

• ISAlliance: Cyber Security is Economic Issue

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 534
  By Anthony M. Freed , Information-Security-Resources.com Managing Editor Internet Security Alliance President Larry Clinton joined several other prominent information security advocates to provide testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security Tuesday. ...
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• SaaS and the Need for Enterprise Architecture

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 534
  Coby Royer, Technical Product Manager for Symplified Does SaaS Diminish the Need for Enterprise Architecture? This is a good question, but we have to understand what is meant by Enterprise Architecture (EA). It is generally accepted to be a discipline and sometimes that strategically aligns an ...
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• New IBM Analytics For Business Intelligence

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 534
  BY Mel Duvall , Chief Content Officer at CIOZone IBM made a series of moves on the business intelligence and analytics front the other week, including launching a new mashup service for its Cognos 8 software. IBM has made analytics one of its focal points this year as companies continue to invest in the ...
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• Revolving Door of Abuse: Procurement Fraud

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 534
  By Michael O’Connor, President of IronClad Consulting I recently studied one of the many procurement fraud cases ( US v. Khan ) associated with the LOGCAP III contract, and came away with mixed feelings. On the one hand, I saw groups such as the relatively recently formed National Procurement Fraud Task ...
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• ISAlliance to Testify for Senate Judiciary

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 534
  From The Internet Security Alliance Media Alert: Internet Security Alliance President to Testify at U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance (ISA), will testify tomorrow at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Terrorism and Homeland Security ...
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• Increase Your Information Security IQ

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 534
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Years ago (like 20) a friend was graduating from college and moving away and a bunch of friends were throwing a party for this person. Collectively they asked me if I’d write a small speech as a version of “This is your life”. Stymied as to why they ...
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• Fifteen More Smart Grid Privacy Concerns

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 534
  By Rebecca Herold ( The Privacy Professor ) CIPP, CISSP, CISM, CISA, FLMI I’ve had about half a dozen folks ask me how things are going with the work I’m doing with the NIST Smart Grid privacy group , and if I could provide an update since my last couple of posts on the topic here and here . The ...
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• What Could Possibly Be Worse Than A Virus?

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 534
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Anti-virus protection, critical security patches and a secure wireless connection have always been essential processes on my networks. My main concern has always been to protect my bank account by keeping the bad guy out. In my presentations, I’ve always ...
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• HITECH Act and Protecting Health Privacy

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 534
  By Doug Pollack , Chief Marketing Officer for ID Experts September 23, 2009 marked a major milestone for patient rights. That is when the new Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act took effect, requiring healthcare organizations to take more responsibility for protecting ...
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• Congressional Leak Spotlights P2P User Act

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 534
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Congress is still considering the Informed P2P User Act, a law that would supposedly make it safer to use peer-to-peer file sharing software, an effort that is similar to banning mosquitoes from sucking blood. It just isn’t happening. The only foolproof way ...
  2 weeks ago

• Microsoft Threat Assessment & Modeling

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 534
  By Bozidar Spirovski , CISSP, MCSA, MCP Every organization has some form of Information Security Risk Assessment - some perform a formal risk assessment, others simply use their practical experience . Whatever method is chosen, it always helps to use a tool which will assist the organization in ...
  2 weeks ago

• ISAlliance To Release Cyber Security Report

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 534
  From The Internet Security Alliance Who: The Internet Security Alliance (ISA) What: The ISA will release a new cybersecurity report, which proposes frameworks for taking key issues in the Obama Administration’s “Cyberspace Policy Review” document to the next level, in an effort to achieve ...
  2 weeks ago

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