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Maslow's heirarchy of security posture?

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2007-07-08 17:22:32 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
...Constantly Improving Security - These are companies that recognize that security posture is a constantly moving target. Senior management is committed to the security program. Security is viewed as a holistic program to mitigate business risk due to information security breach. They have well defined security policies and security procedures....
 
Tags: security posture, basic security posture, security, basic security, security practices, handle security incidents, security exists, security components, security program
 
 
 
 
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The Other Side of Life

2008-03-21 16:06:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...constantly seeking to employ new concepts [and are] constantly striving to do more with less. [] The engineer always believes he is trying something without error, but the truth of the matter is the each new structure can be a new trial. [] Such is the nature not only of science and engineering, but of all human endeavors
 
Tags: team, product team, engineers, security engineers, security, balance security, security professional, test managers, test
 
 
 
 
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PCI compliance, building the base

2008-06-12 11:54:22 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...constantly on guard because spies are always looking for kinks in the defense perimeter in order to slip in and gain access to information without authorization It seems that SMBs are the most at risk of not having guard patrols constantly patrolling the perimeter due to the cost and resources needed to monitor and report on the securitys...
 
Tags: pci compliance, pci compliance requirements, military, top secret information, military branch, information, guard, guard houses, data
 
 
 
 
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Laptop stolen from R.E. Moulton may affect 19,000

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2008-06-15 22:15:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...constantly improving our processes to avoid any further reoccurrences In addition, appropriate steps have been take to prevent future disclosures of this information Evan] What steps have been taken? It seems to me that data owners deserve more detail and explanation We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience or worry this may have caused...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, information security practices, confidential information, information security, moulton, laptop, information security personnel
 
 
 
 
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PCI compliance, building the base

2008-06-12 11:54:22 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...constantly on guard because spies are always looking for kinks in the defense perimeter in order to slip in and gain access to information without authorization It seems that SMBs are the most at risk of not having ???guard patrols??? constantly patrolling the perimeter due to the cost and resources needed to monitor and report on the...
 
Tags: pci compliance, pci compliance requirements, military, top secret information, military branch, information, data, credit data, guard
 
 
 
 
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Modelling Air Traffic Control

2008-09-08 13:27:26 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...constantly about potential damage, alternative airports, and more. In our reference model, we refer to this, generally speaking, as impact assessment because we must take an estimated detected complex event, for example aircraft collision, and estimate potential damage based on numerous factors such as, the amount of jet fuel in the aircrafts...
 
Tags: model, crude laymansatc model, state-model, simple atc model, complex, isconsiderable complex event, overly simplistic model, complex event, simple model
 
 
 
 
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MS08-067 and the SDL

2008-10-23 01:09:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...constantly updated within the while() loop. There is a great deal of pointer arithmetic in this loop. Without going into all the gory attack details, given a specific path, and after the while() loop has been passed through a few times, the pointer, previousLastSlash, gets clobbered In my opinion, hand reviewing this code and successfully...
 
Tags: manual code review, code review, vulnerabilities, reduce security vulnerabilities, sdl, windows, windows server, sdl process fails, sdl process
 
 
 
 
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Automating web application security testing

2007-07-16 11:40:00 by Panayiotis Mavrommatis in Google Online Security Blog
 
...constantly in the process of adding new attack vectors to improve the tool against known security problems Update I wanted to respond to a few questions that seem to be common among readers. I've listed them below. Thanks for the feedback. Please keep the questions and comments coming Q. Does Google plan to market it at some point A. Lemon...
 
Tags: web application, application, input, input parameters, accepts user input, xss, xss vulnerabilities, security, security team check
 
 
 
 
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Protect your data: everything else is just plumbing

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2007-07-02 20:46:32 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
...constantly improve their tactics as their motives become more sinister. By adjusting your tactics as well, you can be certain that youre doing your part to keep your information secure
 
Tags: data security, comrms data security, data, security, confidential information, information, information security, temporary data, data vanishes
 
 
 
 
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Phishing Metamorphosis in 2007 - Trends and Developments

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2007-12-12 10:02:39 by HASH0x89e8bec in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...constantly shrinking period of time it takes for the phishers to come up with a fake email, and how come that despite all the public awareness put into the problem, people still fall victim to phishing scams? This article aims to provide an overview of the key factors that