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Public Service Announcement – Stress and Burnout in the InfoSec Community

Public Service Announcement – Stress and Burnout in the InfoSec Community

by Shawna Turner-Rice

A week ago, to kick off RSA, there was a Professional Development Track Session (PROF-001) on the topic of stress and burnout in the Information Security industry. One of the comments made at the track was that if you do a Google search on this topic, nothing comes back. That’s something that’s easy to fix, [...]

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How to Achieve Better Security

by Cindy Valladares

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of interviewing Mike Dahn, Director of Risk and Compliance at PwC, and Josh Corman, Research Director of Enterprise Security at The 451 Group. The focus of our conversation was on what practical advice they could give to organizations that wanted to move beyond proving compliance validation to [...]

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Zombies Invade the 2011 RSA Conference at the Petcha Kutcha Event

by ~Previous Contributers

There is an event each year at the RSA Conference in San Francisco called Petcha Kutcha.  I had heard good things about it and it sounded a lot like Ignite so I decided to check it out.  According to Wikipedia this is what a Petcha Kutcha is: Pecha Kucha Night was devised in February 2003[2] by [...]

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PCI Hug It Out: The Hug

by ~Previous Contributers

You finally get to see the video for the PCI Hug It Out Podcast series.

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PCI Hug it Out: Face to Face (Finally)

by admin

In part one of our PCI Hug it Out podcast series, you heard Mike Dahn speak about his views on PCI and why he’s such a strong proponent of the standard. Part two is where Josh Corman gave his viewpoint on the industry and explain why he is often thought of as an opponent of PCI. Well [...]

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PCI Hug it Out Charity Update 2

by admin

By all accounts, the PCI Hug it Out podcast series has been a success so far. The project brought together two of the industry’s top IT security and compliance leaders and at the same time is raising money for two worthwhile charities. But we’re not done yet. In case you missed it, the first podcast [...]

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