SecurityRatty: Security and Risk Management with Stuart King and Duncan Hart

Did I miss anything?

2009-09-07 06:13:46 by Duncan Hart in Security and Risk Management with Stuart King and Duncan Hart

...security is a national security priority for the US which promptly means that two (Melissa Hathaway, the top White House aide for cybersecurity & Mischel Kwon, head of the US Department of Homeland Security's Computer Emergency Readiness Team) key personnel resign Hot footed after the US efforts UK government decides it needs its own central...

Tags: pigeon holed threats, russian crime gangs, slightly naughty boys, national security priority, obama administration identifies, key personnel resign, time job, homeland security, russia-georgia conflict

Did I miss anything?

2009-09-07 06:13:46 by Duncan Hart in Security and Risk Management with Stuart King and Duncan Hart

...security is a national security priority for the US which promptly means that two (Melissa Hathaway, the top White House aide for cybersecurity & Mischel Kwon, head of the US Department of Homeland Security's Computer Emergency Readiness Team) key personnel resign Hot footed after the US efforts UK government decides it needs its own central...

Tags: pigeon holed threats, russian crime gangs, slightly naughty boys, national security priority, obama administration identifies, key personnel resign, time job, homeland security, russia-georgia conflict

They've all lost their mojo

2009-04-21 15:00:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog

...information security is a recession proof career is wrong because around half of the CVs received are from individuals made redundant from their previous jobs The other disappointing thing is the number of people I'm seeing who are great at writing policy and delegating jobs to third parties but have lost the hands-on technical skills (if...

Tags: jobs, policy, recession proof career, hands-on technical skills, policy document, previous jobs, butter stuff, lost, security director

They've all lost their mojo

2009-04-21 09:35:08 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog

...information security is a recession proof career is wrong because around half of the CVs received are from individuals made redundant from their previous jobs The other disappointing thing is the number of people I'm seeing who are great at writing policy and delegating jobs to third parties but have lost the hands-on technical skills (if...

Tags: jobs, policy, recession proof career, hands-on technical skills, policy document, previous jobs, butter stuff, lost, security director

PCI at the House of Representatives

2009-04-06 08:23:29 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog

...information security. The reason it has proved to be ineffective is because organisations focus on ticking the compliance boxes rather than taking the holistic approach to security that's needed. There's enough ranting on this subject elsewhere - the best being on Anton Chuvakin 's blog - and I have little to add

Tags: representatives, overly complex, debit card transactions, standard, federal lawmakers, anton chuvakin, retail industry, holistic approach, accept credit

PCI at the House of Representatives

2009-04-06 06:31:08 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog

...information security. The reason it has proved to be ineffective is because organisations focus on ticking the compliance boxes rather than taking the holistic approach to security that's needed. There's enough ranting on this subject elsewhere - the best being on Anton Chuvakin 's blog - and I have little to add

Tags: representatives, overly complex, debit card transactions, standard, federal lawmakers, anton chuvakin, retail industry, holistic approach, accept credit

Ranums's Rant - Risk Takers and Security Disasters

2009-03-30 11:00:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog

...Information Security from Marcus Ranum online here . I picked up on the following quote The security team explained why it was a bad idea; in fact they wrote a brilliantly clear, incisive report that definitively framed the problem. So the executive asked the web design team, who declared it a great idea and "highly do-able" and implemented...

Tags: security, information security, security factors, security team, risks, wrong decision, risk takers, decision, web design team

GhostNet

2009-03-30 09:16:03 by Duncan Hart in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog

...information security community it should come as no surprise that there are serious and organised individuals and groups using coordinated computer resources to deliberately and maliciously infiltrate attractive target networks. E-mail based threats are not new and have been the modus operandi for a whole bunch of people for at least the last...

Tags: government computer networks, computer networks, ghostnet, attacks, trojan e-mail attacks, international studies report, poorly, international, attractive target networks