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XTM? YAUSA, or Yet Another Useless Security Acronym

2008-08-11 17:06:29 by Posted By: Greg Young and Adam Hils in IT Leaders - Security and Risk Management
 
...acronym XTM (that is, eXtensible threat management) as a new generation of UTM. We're not referring to any product name, but the attempt to create a new and confusing acronym, and create another artificial market to size and make predictions about No matter what you call it, the arc of advancement of network security products for the SMB...
 
Tags: network, enterprise network firewalls, enterprise, network security products, enterprise security vendors, utm, acronym, term utm, products
 
 
 
 
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Same Letters, New Acronym

2008-06-27 12:50:12 by Posted By: John Pescatore, VP Distinguished Analyst in IT Leaders - Security and Risk Management
 
On 26 June, Cisco, IBM, Intel, Juniper and Microsoft announced the formation of the Industry Consortium for the Advancement of Security on the Internet ( ICASI ). The major goal of the consortium is to be a forum where technology vendors can work together to share information and address new threats that have common impacts across their product...
 
Tags: security, security officers, security services vendors, vendors, technology vendors, infrastructure vendors, security product vendors, north american vendors, vendors belong
 
 
 
 
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New Attack Class: XSNADOR

2008-04-01 11:00:47 by Chris Eng in Zero in a bit
 
...acronym to raise the visibility of such a critical risk. I propose that, going forward, security practitioners should refer to these vulnerabilities as Cross Social Networking Application Direct Object Reference (XSNADOR). Thats pronounced eks-SNEY-dohr, in case you were wondering XSNADOR attacks are very common, they have simply lacked a...
 
Tags: xsnador, facebook moods application, application, cross social, social, facebook application hacks, xsnador attacks, cross, cross-site
 
 
 
 
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Wi-Fi Group Finalizes Latest Wireless Flavor

2008-04-01 08:22:21 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...acronym that shouldn't bode poorly for the standard's future. (It's probably better they opted against Wi-Fi over Wires, WoW, which many geeks would have confused with World of Warcraft Wi-Fi over Ethernet combines electromagnetic resonance--the ability of a EMF to excite signals in wires--with excess wired capacity in a manner similar to how...
 
Tags: wi-fi, woe, wi-fi beats woe, wi-fi alliance, ethernet, ethernet network, woe-capable wi-fi systems, wi-fi signals, wi-fi signal
 
 
 
 
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Also Known By You As (AKBYA)

2007-07-10 13:33:07 by Editor in Endpoint Security: Translating Policy Into Reality
 
A new acronym
 
Tags: acronym
 
 
 
 
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Wrapping up Threat Modeling

2008-02-14 22:51:35 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...acronym into their thinking. Having integrated it, they could use it without thinking about it. Well, as Adam Barr points out , you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your online community's lexicon It didnt add to their cognitive load to say DFD Cognitive Load People can only handle so much new information...
 
Tags: threat, threat modelers, threat models, threat model, design, design specification, specification, set, challenges set people
 
 
 
 
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Malicious Advertising (Malvertising) Increasing

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2008-02-20 22:33:33 by HASH0x8b2be50 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...acronym for a cybercrime powerhouse? Yep, RBN's historical customers' base, still using RBN's infrastructure and services . Here's further analysis of this particular case as well - Inside Rogue Flash Ads , by Dennis Elser and Micha Pekrul, Secure Computing Corporation, Germany, as well as a tool specifically written to detect and prevent...
 
Tags: swf, comswfgnida, php, newbieadguide, comstatsg, adtraff, active domains, domains, traffalo
 
 
 
 
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Training People on Threat Modeling

2008-03-14 23:11:12 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...acronym. Memorable is important when training people. Our reviewers have raised this as an issue, and d love to get feedback from our readers. How can we ensure that the software we build has the right level of logging and audit-ability? What evocative words can we use, and can you help us come up with a word or phrase that starts with R? Let...
 
Tags: web site, site, threat, windows, windows source code, code, people, degrade service, non-repudiation
 
 
 
 
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Art of Information Security Episode 002: GTAGs and Safe Harbors

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2007-12-29 05:09:20 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
...acronym for Global Technology Audit Guidance . The project is very ambitious, trying to break down major technical topics, the IT risks associated with them, and the controls that are available in a concise format accessible to senior risk executives Of the nine that have been released to date, several caught my eye. Here are the ones I would...
 
Tags: information security episode, information security, safe harbors, gtags, controls, application controls, art, patch management controls, concise format accessible
 
 
 
 
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Evolution of IT Security to Risk; driving IT GRC acceptance?

2008-04-24 21:32:00 by Ryan Shopp in practical risk management
 
...acronym represent (Governance, Risk, Compliance Now, GRC solutions can't and won't solve these problems alone. They are part of an overall ecosystems of technical control products, best practice processes and people communication/expertise. You still need your Vulnerability, SIEM, IDS/IPS, Firewalls and other security products. You still...