the State of Security

Configuration Assessment

Hardening your Systems is Job #1

Hardening your Systems is Job #1

by Crystal Miller

Hardening your security configurations is job #1 in preventing breaches and detecting and correcting any subsequent changes that weaken them. Yet in complex corporate IT settings, it’s easy to understand how basic steps to security are overlooked. Especially when everything you are doing is a #1 priority. In a 2011 June report entitled “Perceptions About Network Security,” [...]

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How Safe is Your Credit Card Data?

by Cindy Valladares

Well, that depends on who is responsible for safeguarding your credit card information. This is a case study of how Point is providing better protection to its customers, merchants in Europe. Organization Point is the leading provider of electronic payment solutions in Europe, serving every type of business that require multi-channel payment capabilities: from small [...]

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Football

How is infosec like a busy football weekend?

by Dwayne Melancon

This past weekend was a long holiday weekend due to Thanksgiving Day in the US.  For many people, there are 4 big traditions that go along with this: Watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade; Eating too much turkey at Thanksgiving dinner; Shopping like crazy on Black Friday (I mentioned Black Friday in my last post); [...]

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A hole in the cloud?

by ~Previous Contributers

Proper configurations are key to sewing up holes in the cloud.

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Security and the Magic Bullet…

by Chris Orr

So…I am speaking to a customer today, and this actually happens quite often, when he mentions that he is looking for one tool that does everything from log analysis, to patch management and even change auditing and configuration assessment…a magic bullet if you will… Argh! Would a real Ninja go into battle with just one [...]

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RSA Day 4…The Ninjas are gone…bring in the vultures!

by Chris Orr

RSA is a long conference. Holy cow…day four was the final stretch of the marathon of security tracks and other talks. Virtualization was of interested to nearly everyone of course. At this point of the show though it was mostly roving bands of shirt hunters. It was almost like a scene from Mutual of Omaha…you [...]

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