Information Security Resources

From the Infosec Island Network You have been implementing ISO 27001 for quite a long time, invested quite a lot in education, consultancy and implementation of various controls. Now comes the auditor from a certification body - will you pass the certification?...

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From the Infosec Island Network Just a quick note on the recent Google announcement about dumping Windows for desktops in favor of Linux and Mac OS X. As you can see from the linked article, there is a lot of hype about this move in the press. Unfortunately, dumping Windows...

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From the Infosec Island Network A few weeks ago I participated in a cyber roundtable pulled together in Washington DC. This was, in part, a meeting to kick off a new organization that will seek to bring security technologists and policy makers together. (Much more on this at a...

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From the Infosec Island Network I'm often asked why security has to be so expensive. A lot of my time is spent preaching to clients about the need for increased security. Every day brings another new vulnerability to our computing infrastructure. Hardly a day goes by when we are not...

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From the Infosec Island Network GNU Screen is one of the favored tools for system administrators and Unix-based users. It is very popular and many articles have been published about it in the most reputable magazines and journals......

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From the Infosec Island Network A data breach is painful for everyone, with the exception of the thief. The bad publicity, cost of notification, cost of internal and external audits, not to mention the loss to the person whose data is breached is enormous......

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From the Infosec Island Network Information security is still not garnering appropriate attention from the executive level at some of the largest companies in the world, many of whom are engaged in business activity considered critical to the nation's infrastructure......

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From the Infosec Island Network In conjunction with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), ISA published its first handbook for enterprises which examines corporate cyber security from an economic perspective as much as the technical one......

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From the Infosec Island Network Lately, we have been looking at a lot of banking apps and front ends for the iPhone, Android and other mobile devices in the lab. Our testing thus far has shown some great results and it seems like a lot of banks, credit unions and...

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From the Infosec Island Network The American Heritage dictionary defines compliance as "The act of complying with a wish, request, or demand; acquiescence". When you think of complying with something, do you normally consider it a wish? So, would paying my taxes indicate I'm complying with the Federal government's wish...

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From the Infosec Island Network 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 a role or organization responsible for those activities that strategically align an organization to its technology and business...

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From the Infosec Island Network In this issue, the Economics of Targeted Attacks, Bonnie, Clyde & Cybercrime, Privacy & Internet, Password & Lemons and other great infosec quotes from around the world......

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From the Infosec Island Network From Anton Chuvakin: A few weeks ago week I did this fun webcast with NitroSecurity (recording) on Log Management and SIEM; here are some belated Q&A we got there......

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From the Infosec Island Network Twitter users are no strangers to receiving spam tweets about trending topics, but spammers are becoming more sophisticated. As reported by TechCrunch, Twitter users are starting to get spam that gives them an @ mention and tells them to watch or read something......

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From the Infosec Island Network It is high time the CIOs should look at modernising their application infrastructure and move on to cost-effective and faster platforms. In an exclusive conversation, Stuart McGill, CTO, Micro Focus shares his thoughts with Rahul Neel Mani......

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