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Network skill level gap is growing, but growth opportunities abound!

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2008-08-25 21:06:07 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
...gap is emerging in North America, which spells trouble for enterprises. Listen to this: 600,000 IT workers were needed to install, configure, manage and secure networks in North America in 2007, 14% of the total IT workforce. However, IDC reports that another 180,000 engineers with wireless as well as traditional network engineering...
 
Tags: skills, foundation skills, network, skills gap, skills shortage, intuitive solutions, solutions, traditional network, recent idc report
 
 
 
 
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Ikea closes global spam gap

2008-01-15 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b0cf4c in Network World on Security
 
The global furniture giant Ikea has closed a serious security gap that for an unknown period of time gave hackers and phishers a free rein to exploit the company's mail server Register for a WAN Acceleration Technology Primer Advertisement This paper explores the differences between commonly used WAN acceleration technologies
 
Tags: wan acceleration technologies, paper explores, mail server, free rein, unknown period, security gap, advertisement, time, exploit
 
 
 
 
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Ideal Tool to Solve Real Problems ... of the Near Future? - II

2008-08-04 21:30:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Gap" problem will grow . "Logging gap" happens when you combine "a need to log" with utter "inability to do so." For example, this will happen when people will know that they HAVE TO log, say, for compliance, but will have no way of doing it due to application or platform limitations. This will become one of the challenges and special...
 
Tags: log discovery, log, log diversity, esoteric log sources, log security, application log explosion, application, log analysis, log volume
 
 
 
 
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Personal information of 103,000 doctors from 11 states posted to web site

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2008-03-03 09:19:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...gap, notified the providers whose data was potentially accessible, and reported the incident to our customer Evan] What "data gap"? They didn't "seal" the employee that made the mistake, did they In an abundance of caution, Health Net hired outside IT security experts to test our security measures and found them sound We regret any alarm...
 
Tags: personal information, sensitive personal information, information, providers personal information, doctors, health net, health net employees, 103-thousand doctors, social security
 
 
 
 
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E-Discovery's Great 'Urban Myth' - And Why You Shouldn't Believe It

2008-05-01 17:59:45 by Posted By: John Bace, Research VP in IT Leaders - Security and Risk Management
 
...gap between the requirements of public policy mandates and the market-driven power of technology. But far too many of them are tangled up in two fundamentally opposed, but equally dangerous, fallacies: 1) the "urban myth" that it's impossible to erase an e-mail or other piece of digital information; and 2) the idea that the only smart...
 
Tags: e-mail, e-mail product, urban myth, e-discovery, technology, star wars technology, smart practice, public policy, strong black coffee
 
 
 
 
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An Open Letter to NIST About SP 800-30

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2008-06-09 23:57:20 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
...gap assessment against a catalog of controls (SP 800-53/800-53A Attach a priority to mitigation Perform risk avoidance because compliance models are yes/no frameworks Document Profit At Your Own Risk Photo by Mykl Roventine The reason that I am writing this is to let you know that I have noticed a disturbing trend in how now that we have a...
 
Tags: risk management, risk management guide, risk management framework, risk assessment process, people, models, competent people, risk assessment, compliance models
 
 
 
 
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Covert channel vulnerabilities in anonymity systems

2007-12-10 10:39:42 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...gap security boundaries This thesis demonstrates how theoretical models and generic methodologies relating to covert channels may be applied to find practical solutions to problems in real-world anonymity systems. These findings confirm the existing hypothesis that covert channel analysis, vulnerabilities and defences developed for multilevel...
 
Tags: covert, covert channel vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities, network covert channels, covert channels, channels, covert channel, anonymity systems, systems
 
 
 
 
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Maryland Department of Assessments & Taxation web exposure

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2008-01-05 14:02:15 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...gap briefly left the numbers exposed, but the information was transferred to a secure server after an application was submitted Evan] Let's hope that the "secure server" is actually secure. This breach would not have occurred if proper security testing were carried out prior to production. If the site itself had not been properly tested,...
 
Tags: maryland, sensitive personal information, personal information, secure server hadhas, server, web application server, application, information, information security
 
 
 
 
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Combating Unrestricted Warfare

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2007-12-15 09:08:23 by HASH0x8472308 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...gap. We need to do the same thing today. The bottom line is that it is dangerous to underestimate the capabilities of our adversaries. They do whatever it takes to win. Good adversaries know our strengths and weaknesses. They develop surprising partners that sometimes do not even know they are partnersthey will give someone an honorarium to...
 
Tags: chinese information warfare, information, information warfare, warfare, cyber warfare unit, cyber warfare, asymmetric warfare, unconventional warfare, warfare employs surprise